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

“ He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” - ROMANS 8:32 [KJV] We may observe, in one view, the wonderful goodness and inflexible severity of God. So great was His goodness that, when man was by sin rendered incapable of any happiness, and obnoxious to all mercy; incapable of restoring himself, or of receiving the least assistance from any power in heaven or in earth; God spared not His only begotten Son, but, in His unexampled love to His own, gave Him Who alone was able to repair the breach . Every gift of God is good. The bounties of His common providence are very valuable that He should continue life, and supply that life with food, raiment, and a variety of comforts, to those who by rebellion had forfeited all, was wonderful: but what are all inferior blessings compared to this unspeakable gift of the Son of His love ? Abraham had given many proofs of his love and obedien...

"Wilt T hou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise T hee? Shall T hy lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or T hy faithfulness in destruction?" - P SALM 88:10, 11 [KJV] This is not the language of a soul dead in trespasses and sins, but it is the breathing of a living soul struggling and grappling with death. What a difference there is, where there is life working in and under death, and where death reigns absolutely! between the quickened soul and that in which there is nothing but death, death without one spark of spiritual life, death without one ray of heavenly teaching. There is no groan, no sigh, no lamentation, no piteous inquiry, no pouring out of the heart before God, where the soul is utterly dead, any more than there is life and breath in a corpse in the tomb.  But wherever life is implanted in the soul from the Fountain of life , that life groans under death . It sighs from out of the grave; it gasps for breath, under the c...