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

"The law worketh wrath."   - Romans 4:15 [KJV] Our misery, as sinners, is greatly heightened, for want of duly considering the end and design of the holy law, and of the everlasting gospel; and through our blending them together in our consciences. Consider what is meant by the word, working wrath .  (1st.) “Sin is the transgression of the law”   (I John 3:4.)  (2d.) “The law was added because of transgressions”   (Galatians 3:19.)  (3d.) “By the law is the knowledge of sin.”  Therefore,  (4th.) “By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in God’s sight”   (Romans 3:20.) For,  (5th.) “It is a ministration of condemnation”   (II Corinthians 3:9.) “Cursed is every one who continueth not in ALL things, which are written in the book of the law to do them”   (Galatians 3:10.)   Hence is it any marvel, that we, that are transgressors of the law, and cursed by the law, if we examine ourselves by the law, a...

"If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it."   - John 14:14 [KJV] Is it so, blessed Jesus, that if I go to the Father in Thy precious name; my petitions shall be certainly heard, and answered? Lo, then, I come. I feel my faith and confidence emboldened in this gracious assurance. And as Thou knowest, Lord, this day, what is most suited for me, let Thy wisdom choose, and let Thy love bestow, that very grace and mercy, be it what it may. And let a throne of grace witness for me, that I seek it wholly on Christ's account. I consider it as good as given, from the high love my God and Father bears towards His dear Son, as my Surety and Saviour. And although in the moment that I ask with this boldness of faith, I see and know—in myself, that I have nothing to recommend me to Thy favour, as in the least meriting that favour, but much, very much, to make me an object in meriting Thy displeasure; yet looking up in Jesus, depending upon His blood and righteou...

"O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in Thee."   - Psalm 84:12 [KJV] Trust in God implies total self-renunciation. The moment that I trust in myself, I cease to trust in God. The moment I take any portion of my confidence away from the Lord and put a grain of it in myself, that moment I take away all my trust in God. My trust in God must be all or nothing. It must be unreserved and complete, or else it is false and delusive. Is not the Lord worthy to be trusted? And if He is worthy to be trusted at all, is He not worthy to be trusted with all? What real confidence could a man have in the wife of his bosom if he could trust her with one key, but not with all? Is that full confidence? So, if we can trust God for one thing and not for all, it shews that we have no real trust in Him. A man has no real trust in his wife who cannot give her all the keys. A man has no real trust in God who cannot give Him all his heart, and put everything into His hand; fa...