"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

“ Christianity is the religion of a Book. Christianity is based upon the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture. The starting point of all doctrinal discussion must be the Bible. Upon the foundation of the Divine inspiration of the Bible stands or falls the entire edifice of Christian truth. “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” [ P SALM 11:3 ] . Surrender verbal inspiration and you are left like a rudderless ship on a stormy sea, at the mercy of every wind that blows. Deny that the Bible is, without qualification, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority. It is useless to discuss any doctrine taught by the Bible until you are prepared to acknowledge, unreservedly, that the Bible is the final court of appeal. Grant that the Bible is a Divine revelation and communication of God’s own mind and will to men, and you have a fixed starting point from which advance can ...

"Let T hy work appear unto T hy servants, and T hy glory unto their children." -P SALM 90:16 [KJV] "Let T hy work appear unto T hy servants." Creature works we here read nothing of. They had been long ago cut to the very ground. And what had been their deathblow? What had driven the dagger into their very heart? "Days of affliction, and years of evil." These had been their destruction; creature righteousness they had stabbed to the very heart, and let out the life-blood of human merit. There is no petition, then, "Let our works appear!" No. These were buried in the grave of corruption; these were swallowed up and lost in "days of affliction, and years of evil." But, "Let T hy work," the finished work of the Son of God; the obedience of Jesus to the law; the atoning blood which He shed upon Calvary's tree; the work which He undertook, went through, and completed,— "Oh," breathes forth the man ...

This is the caution which the Son of God gave to His disciples when He ministered among them on earth, and the Holy Ghost caused it to be penned, that the true Church of God might use it as a watchword to the end of time; and never since this caution dropped from the lips of Jesus, has it been more needed than now; for men seem to vie with the prince of darkness who shall most effectually oppose the kingdom of Christ and the spiritual interests of His blood-bought family. “ Beware of men,” not merely of profane men, open infidels. Little caution is necessary respecting them, because “The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves” [ I SAIAH 3:9 ] . But the men who assume the profession of Christianity, without possessing its vital principle, are the men of whom the Savior’s watchword is, “Beware!” The men who put on “a form of godliness, bu...