A REPLY TO AN ANSWER OF SOME QUERIES CONCERNING THE GOSPEL-BAPTISM GIVEN FORTH BY ME, I. P. WITH ANSWERS TO SOME QUERIES RETURNED, IN A PAPER SUBSCRIBED N. B. [1679] Query 1. WHICH is the gospel baptism, or of what kind is the baptism in the gospel state? Is it outward or inward? Is it the figure of... Read More
Chapter Eight from the book Meditations on the Sacred Humanity of Our Blessed Redeemer But we pass on to the resurrection of the blessed Lord from the dead; and here we shall have to establish the doctrine before we enter into its experimental fruits. 1. The first thing that we notice is, what we ma... Read More
Chapter Seven from the book Meditations on the Sacred Humanity of Our Blessed Redeemer In our Meditations on the sacred humanity of the adorable Redeemer we must never, even in thought, separate his human nature from his divine. Even when his sacred body lay in the grave, and was thus for a small sp... Read More
1 Corinthians 1:10-17 It is surprising to me that Paul would say, "Christ did not send me to baptize," when, in fact, one of the last things Jesus said to His disciples was, "Go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. . ." In order to un... Read More
January 17, 1982 Colossians 2:16-23 This coming Thursday evening, at the second half of our annual business meeting, we will be voting on the proposed amendment to the Church Covenant. I want to try to clarify this morning what is at stake in this decision and to apply the Word of God to our present... Read More
February 22, 1981 The Role of the Holy Spirit in Conversion Unless God gives me a clear indication to go another way I will be preaching during these last four Sundays of winter on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. I feel a great yearning in my own heart to know more of the Spirit's power for holines... Read More
June 6, 1982 2 Peter 3:1-10 In the second chapter of this letter Peter has given us a graphic description of the sexual licentiousness, the love of money and the rejection of authority by which the false teachers were denying the Master who bought them, Jesus Christ. He warns the churches vividly th... Read More
A favorite device of the Devil is to have men look to their works for their salvation instead of looking to Christ. He leads some to trust in their morality, some to depend upon lodge membership, some to depend upon confessions to priests; some he leads to trust in baptism. That is a fatal mistake. ... Read More
Sometimes when people do not want to keep some command of the Lord Jesus they say, "That was for the Jews," or "That was done away with at the closing of the apostolic age." So some people, having been accustomed to a form of baptism or a teaching about it which they could not reconcile to the Scrip... Read More
There is a strange text of Scripture in Revelation 17:5: "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BASYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" By reading the rest of the chapter we find that evil woman is certainly used to represent Roman Catholicism. Rome with ... Read More
A Reply to an answer to Queries by I.P. concerning gospel Baptism
The Resurrection
The Union and Communion with Christ
Christ Did Not Send Me to Baptize
Flesh Tank and Peashooter Regulations
That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit
Where Is the Promise of His Appearing?
BAPTISM DOES NOT SAVE-DOES NOT HELP SAVE
BAPTISM FOR US IN THIS DISPENSATION; HAS NEVER BEEN DONE AWAY WITH
HOW THE WORLD GOT WRONG ON BAPTISM