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

" Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace." -Hebrews 13:9 [KJV] The doctrines of grace are streams which flow from the Fountain-Head, the covenant of grace. They all lead to Jesus, the surety of the covenant. All doctrines that oppose the covenant-engagements of the Holy Trinity, for the salvation of sinners, are diverse, and strange doctrines. They direct to a different hope than Christ, and lead souls from the truth, as it is in Him. With these diverse and strange doctrines, men may evidence great zeal for holiness and good works, while they have rooted enmity against the leading truths and capital doctrines of the gospel .  Who talk more of holiness, and contend more for good works, than Arians and Socinians, and yet deny the proper deity of Christ? So many of another cast, carry their notions of holiness and perfection to the greatest height; yet vehemently oppose the doctrines ...

"And He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation." - Psalm 107:7 [KJV] "He led them forth." Forth out of the world—forth out of sin—forth out of a profession— forth out of a name to live—forth out of everything hateful to His holy and pure eyes. "To go to a city of habitation." They had no city to dwell in here below; but they were journeying to a city of habitation above, whose walls and bulwarks are salvation, and whose gates are praise; where there are eternal realities to be enjoyed by the soul; where there is something stable and eternal; something to satisfy all the wants of a capacious ( wide, large ) and immortal spirit, and give it that rest which it never could find while wandering here below.  If we have a city here, we want no city above; and if we have a city above, we want no city here . This then must be our state and case; either to be pilgrims, journeying onwards, through troubles, to thing...