psalm-39:7

Preached on Tuesday Evening, August 3rd, 1852, at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in Thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish." Psalm 39:7, 8 This psalm was written under peculiar feelings, and whilst the Psal... Read More

PREACHED AT ZION CHAPEL, TROWBRIDGE OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, 1834 "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3. 9.) In the religious world there is a ... Read More

QUESTION. But cannot Christ be hid? Answer. Not of himself. It is hard to hide a great fire, or to cast a covering upon sweet odours, that they smell not. Christ's name is as a sweet ointment poured out: he is a mountain of spices, and he is a strong savour of heaven, and of the higher paradise. You... Read More

DIRECTION VIII.--SECOND GENERAL PART. [ARGUMENT PRESSING THE EXHORTATION.] 'Whereby ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked' (Eph. 6:16) We have done with the exhortation, and now come to the second general part of the verse, viz. a powerful argument pressing this exhortation, c... Read More

Reasons pressing to Holy Contentment. Having opened the nature of contentment, I come next to lay down some reasons or arguments to contentment, which may preponderate with us. The first is, God's precept. It is charged upon us as a duty: "be content with such things as you have." (He. 13. 5) The sa... Read More

Divine Motives to Contentment. SECT. 1. The first argument to contentation. 1. Consider the excellency of it. Contentment is a flower that doth not grow in every garden; it teacheth a man how in the midst of want to abound. You would think it were excellent if I could prescribe a receipt or antidote... Read More

Use IV. Showing how a Christian may know whether he hath learned this Divine Art. Thus having laid down these three cautions, I proceed, in the next place, to an use of trial. How may a Christian know that he hath learned this lesson of contentment? I shall lay down some characters by which you shal... Read More

Use V. Containing a Christian Directory, or Rules about Contentment. I proceed now to an use of direction, to show Christians how they may attain to this divine art of contentation. Certainly it is feasible, others of God's saints have reached to it. St Paul here had it; and what do we think of thos... Read More

Winter Before Harvest, or The Soul's Growth in Grace By Joseph Philpot, 1837 "For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left together unto ... Read More

The Appeal and Prayer of a Waiting Soul Preached on Tuesday Evening, August 3rd, 1852, at Eden Street Chapel, London, by J. C. Philpot "And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You. Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish." Psalm 39:7, 8 This psalm was ... Read More