Clouds of darkness in adversity – Psalm 25:4-5

Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths. The prayer which David offers up here, is to this effect; Lord, keep your servant in the firm persuasion of your promises, and do not let him turn aside to the right hand or to the left. When our minds are thus composed to patience, [...]

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The sins of Professors VI

GOSPEL GLASS, ETC.
THE SINS OF PROFESSORS. Lewis Stuckley
 CHAPTER 6 THE DELAYS OF PROFESSORS IN CLOSING WITH CHRIST.
IV. How many do delay in their coming to Christ! And O! what indignities are herein put upon Christ! How long doth he stand at the doors of sinners ere they let him in. "My head," [...]

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Trusting in God -Psalm 25:1-3

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. The Psalmist declares at the very outset, that he is not driven here and there, after the manner of the ungodly, but that he directs all his desires and prayers to God alone. Nothing is more inconsistent with true and sincere prayer to God, than to [...]

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King of glory –Psalm 24:8-10

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty…he is the King of glory.  When God is spoken of as dwelling in the temple, it is not to be understood as if his infinite and incomphensible essence had been shut up or confined within it; but that he was present there by his [...]

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Ancient Doors! -Psalm 24:7

You ancient doors! David terms the gates, ancient, because the promise of God secured their continual stability. The temple excelled in materials and workmanship, but its chief excellence consisted in this, that the promise of God was engraven upon it, as we shall see in Psalm 132:14, "This is my rest for ever." In terming [...]

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Lift up your heads–Psalm 24:7-9

Lift up your heads, O you gates; be  lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. The magnificent and splendid structure of the temple, in which there was no more outward majesty than in the tabernacle, not being yet erected, David here speaks of the future building of it. By [...]

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Blessing that cannot Fail–Psalm 24:5-6

He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Saviour. The more effectually the move the minds of the Israelites, David declares that nothing is more desirable than to be numbered among the flock of God, and to be members of the church. We must here consider that there is an implied [...]

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On the Card

Sermon by Hugh Latimer given around 1529
 
On the Card:
 
Tu qis es? Which words are as much to say in English, “Who art thou?” These be the words of the Pharisees, which were sent by the Jews unto St. John the Baptist in the wilderness, to have knowledge of him who he was: which words they [...]

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I shall fear no evil-Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. True believers, although they dwell safely under the protection of God, are, notwithstanding, exposed to many dangers, or rather they are liable to all the [...]

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The Good shepherd feeds his sheep-psalm 23:2-3

He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters. David relates how abundantly God had provided for all his necessities. The heavenly shepherd had omitted nothing which might contribute to make him live happily under his care. He, therefore, compares the great abundance of all things requisite for the purpose [...]

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