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

“ Indeed this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world, namely, that a righteousness that resides with a Person in heaven should justify me, a sinner, on earth.” -preacher John Bunyan (1628–1688 A.D.)

“ Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power: in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of Thy youth. ” -P SALM 110:3 [KJV] There is so much of the Lord Jesus in this sweet Psalm, indeed it is altogether so truly a gospel Psalm, that the morning portion, which was a selection from it, cannot be better followed than by taking another verse of it for the evening portion, that both together may furnish out blessed meditations to my soul, in the contemplation of our precious Jesus. Here are views of Jesus, in all His blessed offices, as the Prophet, Priest, and King of His people ; and every verse is more or less descriptive of His glorious person, offices, and character. This precious portion for my evening thoughts contains the promise of Jehovah the Father, in His covenant engagements, that the Redeemer should see the blessed fruits and effects of His undertaking in the hearts and minds of His elect people. “Thy people (saith the Lord

"Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations." -I PETER 1:6 [KJV]   As everything by nature in us is contrary to the life of God, there is a needs be for manifold trials and temptations to bring us out of those things which are opposed to the grace of God, and to conform us to the image of His dear Son. Thus we need trial after trial, and temptation upon temptation, to cure us of that worldly spirit, that carnality and carelessness, that light, trifling, and empty profession, that outside form of godliness, that spirit of pride and self-righteousness, that resting short of divine teachings, heavenly blessings, and spiritual manifestations, that settling on our lees and being at ease in Zion, that being mixed up with all sorts of professors, that ignorance of the secret of the Lord which is with them that fear Him —all which marks of death we see so visibly stamped upon the profession of the day.   Th