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

" Consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied, and faint in your minds." — Hebrews 12:3 [KJV] Come, Christian, look up, look forward, and be of good courage. Though thy exercises are many, and thy conflicts great, though weary IN, yet grow not weary OF, the ways of the Lord. Verily, in due time we shall reap an harvest of eternal felicity (- happiness ), after all our present toil and labour. Faint not; continue to the end; persevere in the work of faith, labour of love, and patience of hope.  The battle is the Lord's; thy foes are all conquered; victory is obtained; the crown is held forth by thy conquering Lord. Press on. But alas! thou findest contradiction and opposition from every quarter, from within and from without: numerous are thy foes which rise up against thee; thy strength is small; thy power weak: most true; but know thy calling; study thy privilege; behold thy Comforter holds forth a reviving c...

" I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them ." — Isaiah 42:16 [KJV] Here is a full proof of the personality of the divine Spirit, the third glorious person in the adorable trinity; and also the nature of His office in the economy of the covenant of grace for the salvation of the elect. He WILL lead them into all the paths of truth. Truth is of the very essence and perfection of Jehovah. The Father "hath chosen us from the beginning to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the TRUTH." — II Thessalonians 2:13 ; Jesus is essentially "the way, the TRUTH, and the life," — John 14:6 —by Whom we are saved; and the Holy Spirit performs His office as our guide to HIM.  We poor sinners "are all gone out of the way:" we are blind and ...

" Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls." — Matthew 11:29 [KJV] Thus, with tender affection, speaks Jesus our prophet to the lambs of His flock. He well knows we stand in need of daily instruction from Him: He teaches us in the truth as we are able to bear it; He knows the weakness of our understandings; He is "touched with a feeling of our infirmities." Therefore, lest our poor hearts should at any time conceive thoughts of Him contrary to His nature and office, He says, "I am meek and lowly of heart."   You find that you are poor sinners; ignorant of many truths; exercised with many conflicts, trials and temptations: do not think of Me only as the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity, but as dwelling also with humble hearts. Look not on Me as an austere master; a terrible lawgiver, a severe judge, who watches over you for evil, and is ever ready to take all advantages against you. No: I a...

" Whom He justified, them He also glorified." — Romans 8:30 [KJV] What poor scanty thoughts do we too often entertain of the love and beneficence of our covenant God! At best our conceptions are too contracted: we are straitened in our own bowels, while we have no cause to be straitened in the super-abounding grace of our Lord: we have little reason to borrow contracted thoughts of God's love from Egyptian taskmasters. Our own corrupt nature too, too often furnishes with carnal pleas and unbelieving suggestions, which weaken our faith, cool our love, damp our zeal, deject our spirits, and grieve our hearts. Simple hearts should have nothing to do but with the plain simple truths of God.  Hath the Lord said it? He will also do it. Faith defies Satan's power, and smiles at human contradictions. Though humbled souls lie low in self-abasement, yet their views are exalted to the highest confidence, by God's purposes, declarations, and promises in Christ ...

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" Now I know thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me." - Genesis 22:12 [KJV] So spake Jesus to His friend of old. What! did not God know that Abraham feared Him before this? Doubtless he did. But now in the exercise of faith and love he approved himself to God. He gave full evidence that God's commandments are not grievous: that it was his joy and delight to obey his God. Lord, give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt, is the breathing of faith and love!  Thus was the faith of Abraham justified by its fruits. Seest thou how his faith wrought by his works? And by works he gave full proof that he possest the faith of God's elect. Thus he obtained this glorious testimony to his own soul from the mouth of the Lord: "Now I know that thou fearest God with a loving, filial fear. Thy faith worketh by love: it has influenced thy heart to this eminent act of cheerful, unreserved obedience to Me."  His f...

" He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself." — I John 5:10 [KJV] Many of the weak lambs of Jesus, are sadly perplexed in their minds about the nature of faith. From the corruption of their hearts, the workings of the enemy, unscriptural notions they have been taught, and opposings of unbelief to the weakness of their faith, they are often ready to question, nay, sometimes to conclude they have not "the faith of God's elect."  Here is a certain rule to determine by: this, if clearly understood in the light of the Spirit, will satisfy and comfort weak hearts. Mind, the apostle doth not say, he that believeth hath no sin, no doubts; knows his sins are forgiven, and has full assurance of his own salvation. No: "but he hath the witness in himself." What is this but an inward testimony of what is outwardly revealed in the word? As the Spirit bears witness in the word to Jesus the incarnate Son of God, the only true and ...