Hope in God-Psalm 42

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. David preferred to all the enjoyments, riches, pleasures, and honours of this world, the opportunity of access to the sanctuary, that in this way he might cherish and strengthen his faith and piety by the exercises prescribed in the [...]

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The Sins of Professors X

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GOSPEL GLASS,
ETC.
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THE SINS OF PROFESSORS. Lewis Stuckley
 
CHAPTER 10
 
 
THEIR WANT OF LOVE TO GOD.
 
IV. Want of love to God is another great branch of ungodliness abounding amongst professors. This is so great a branch of ungodliness, that Jesus Christ hath reduced all the commandments of the first [...]

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On making rash judgments concerning the weak

Blessed is he who has regard for the weak. David declares those to be blessed who form a wise and prudent judgment concerning the afflictions by which God chastises his servants. He had to contend in his own heart against the perverse judgments of foolish and wicked men, because, when affliction was pressing upon him, [...]

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The Sins of Professors VIIII

THE SINS OF PROFESSORS. Lewis Stuckley
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CHAPTER 9
THE UNGODLINESS, IGNORANCE AND ERRORS, ETC., OF PROFESSORS.  
I. Have not many professors been ungodly men—men without worship? If to deny or withhold any part of that respect or honor that is due unto God be ungodliness, how much ungodliness hath there been, and is there [...]

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Observance of the monthly concert IV

LETTER 4
Samuel Miller
 
Concluding remarksAppeals and Exhortation.
 
Christian Brethren: Having, in former numbers, briefly traced the history of the monthly Concert in Prayer, and endeavoured to show the duty and importance of attending upon it; and having made some suggestions respecting the best method of conducting the exercise, and the obligation to accompany every season of prayer [...]

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The Sins of Professors VIII

CHAPTER 8
 
PROFESSORS DECEIVE THEMSELVES BY FALSE SIGNS OF CLOSING WITH CHRIST.
VIII. How do many professors shuffle together a company of false signs of closing with Christ? How do they count them true and infallible which are but questionable; yea, which have been found in unsound hypocritical hearts: and so deceive
themselves as if they had [...]

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Seek ye the Lord and Rejoice – Psalm 32:3-11

Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found. Here the Psalmist expressly states that whatever he has hitherto set forth in his own person, belongs in common to all the children of God. And this is to be carefully observed, because from our native unbelief, the greater part of [...]

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The voice of the Lord -Psalm 29:1-8

The voice of the LORD is over the waters. We see how the prophet, in order to subdue the stubbornness of men, shows, by every word, that God is terrible. He also seems to rebuke, the madness of the proud, and of those who swell with vain presumption, because they hearken not to the voice [...]

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The sins of Professors VII

A
GOSPEL GLASS,
ETC.
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THE SINS OF PROFESSORS. Lewis Stuckley
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CHAPTER 7
 
 
PROFESSORS RECEIVE CHRIST PARTIALLY WITHOUT CONJUGAL AFFECTIONS—AND WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE COST THEY MAY BE AT.
 
 
V. If at length men are persuaded to come to Christ, yet they take him partially, both as a king, [...]

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Those who fear God -Psalm 25:14

The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. The Psalmist here confirms what he had just said in a preceding verse, namely, that God will faithfully discharge the office of a teacher and master to all the godly. The covenant of God is nothing else than his secret [...]

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