Everything That Befalls us, Good or Bad is from God’s Hand
Thursday, March 18, 2010

When things do not go according to our hope and wish, by this consideration we will be restrained to curb our impatience and loathing of our state. For we will recognize that this will be to murmur... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Grace and Goods Together
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Riches well used bring grace in estimation before men, for they are unable men to show forth godliness, and to pass on their time with more comfort, and to countenance and defend their their poor... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

To be Assaulted by Satan is a Mark of Sonship
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

[GOD] respecteth not so much our actions as our affections; nor our works as our desires and endeavours; so that he who desires to be righteous, is righteous; he that would repent, doth repent…... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Lift Up Thine Eyes
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Ever feel very alone; desolate; beyond the help of God and man? I do, frequently, being laid on a sick bed, all alone, starved all but completely of humanity, is its own maker of that feeling, often... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

The Pangs of a Tormented Conscience
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

If there be any hell in this world, they which feel the Worm of conscience gnaw upon their hearts, may truly say, that they have felt the torments of hell. Who can express that man's horror but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Calvin Tells of the Night Farel Cursed Him
Monday, March 15, 2010

To show that it was not my purpose to acquire prominence and notoriety, I would have it known that directly afterward, I left Basel, and even while I was there no one knew I was the author of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

The Spiritual Life
Monday, March 15, 2010

We are like the child that lives and strives for a time blindly in the womb, but in this dark life of ours, there is a divine instinct, power, and faculty… that noting here can suffice: which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Keeping a Record, Register or Journal
Monday, March 15, 2010

How many of us at some time in our life have kept a diary or journal? Even if only in childhood? Yet many people will faithfully keep a journal year after year after year. One of the puritan... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Rutherford Preparing to Suffer
Sunday, March 14, 2010

When He Expected to Be Removed from Anwoth Madam, My humble obedience in the Lord remembered. Know it has pleased the Lord to let me see, by all appearance, that my labors in God’s house here are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Not Theory but Practice
Sunday, March 14, 2010

I could find no one part of Divinity more profitable in these times…than that which consisteth more in experience and practice, than in theory and speculation; and more principally tendeth to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

PussyCat Tales
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Poppy was a wee little mite; and very very fragile, being old and unwell. She was about half the size of most regular sized cats. Meanie however, ever since she first started visiting, has been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

For the Church to Triumph Over the World
Saturday, March 13, 2010

If the Church is to gain over the world, men must recognize her faith and zeal and self-sacrificing love, and in these trace the evidences of Christ's abiding presence with her as her living... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Patience Amid Sorrow and Pain
Saturday, March 13, 2010

God does not require of us such cheerfulness as to remove all bitterness of pain. Otherwise the patience of the saints would not in the cross unless they were tormented by pain, felt agony, when... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

The Excellency of Christ
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Because man is so welded to the world and dotes upon his lust, all the arguments that we can use are most commonly unsuccessful. Therefore I shall add one more upon this sort of motives drawn from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

A Wise And Skillful Pilot
Friday, March 12, 2010

Original spelling: I can resemble our Saviour to nothing better, than to a wise and skilfull Pylot, who seeing his company sicke, and weary with continuall stormes at sea, whenneth hee knoweth hee... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Spies and Messengers of Hope
Friday, March 12, 2010

Thoughts are the spies and messengers of hope; it sends them into the promised land to bring the soul tidings from thence… By this means we preoccupy and forestall the contentment of what we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Be of Good Cheer
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Be of good cheer, Christian. The time is near when God and you shall be near, and as near as you can desire. You will dwell in his family.. in his presence. You will be his child, and he will be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Billy Don’t Be a Hero
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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The Hound of Heaven
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I have some stuff I hope to get up soon, DV, about the puritan Richard Rogers. But for now, I would just like to submit this poem I came across; it wasn't for me the easiest text to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

The Helmet of Hope
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Why is hope compared to a helmet? The helmet defends the head… from dint of bullet and sword… This hope defends the soul… whereby no dangerous or deadly impression can by Satan or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

The Setting Up of the Temple Again
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The blessed God has laid the platform and the foundations of his temple, as it was to be restored and set up again among men, in and by that great Emmanuel, his own Son made flesh… an incarnate... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Future Blessedness
Monday, March 8, 2010

The day of Christ's coming is a day of manifestation. All is n ow hidden. Christ is hidden, the saints are hidden, their life is hidden (Col. 3:3), their glory is hidden, but t hen shall Christ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Meditate Upon Christ
Sunday, March 7, 2010

To believe in Christ for redemption, for justification, for sanctification, is but one half of the duty of faith–it respects Christ only as he died and suffered for us, as he made atonement for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Choosing Spiritual Riches Over Earthly Pleasures
Sunday, March 7, 2010

I do not and have not read fiction, of any kind, for a very long time now it seems. My reasons for this, are, that I have an illness that is likely to not give me as long on earth than I may have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Unseen Atheism
Saturday, March 6, 2010

The first cause of distraction in God's service is secret atheism. There is an atheism of the head, an atheism of the heart, and an atheism of the life. In the first, “The fool hath said... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Suicide is Painless?
Saturday, March 6, 2010

I watched this video earlier, was somewhat fascinated by it, wondering how it was going to end. And also because some years ago, it could have been written by me. Thought about posting it at first... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Rejoice!
Saturday, March 6, 2010

As Abraham saw Christ's day and rejoiced, so we, in our most forlorn state, see that day when Christ shall give us rest and therein rejoice, I beseech you, Christian, for the honour of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Chaucer’s Puritan Portrait
Friday, March 5, 2010

Geoffrey chaucer tells In the Canterbuy Tales, is much like the characters of many real, historical puritans. Sadly, through the ages, we have gone from Chaucer's quite accurate depiction, to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

George Wishart’s Martyrdom
Friday, March 5, 2010

Behold you ruined pile, which rears its head Like some grim spectre of the mighty dead; While girt by boundless Ocean's bulwark strong, With Time's relentless hand it struggles... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Learning Christ and Putting on Christ
Friday, March 5, 2010

Here [in Christ] is the fairest representation that ever thi world had or that could be had, of this most delectable object. The Divine holiness incarnate did never shine so bright. And we may easily... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Are You a Puritan At Heart?
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Defining terms: I have had many people contact me over time, and almost the first words they say to me is [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Means to an End
Thursday, March 4, 2010

When we pray for thing pertaining to this life, we must desire temporal thing for spiritual ends; we must desire these things to be as helps in our journey to heaven. If we pray for health, it must... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Rest Well my Pretty
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

I needed to read these words today: 2 Corinthians 1:9 By this scripture I was made to see that if ever I would suffer rightly, I must first pass a sentence of death upon every thing that can be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

The Sinner’s Need
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Men that are at the point to die have more need of the physician than they that are now and then troubled with a heart-fainting qualm (Mark 2:15-17). The publicans and sinners were in the mouth of ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Kept by God
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

We are kept by God's power, and God's power is triggered by prayer… We pray aright when we “pray in the Holy Ghost.” This is necessary with respect to acceptance…... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Christ’s Care for His Church
Monday, March 1, 2010

The Lord nourishes and cherishes his church…When he first created man, he provided beforehand all things needful to nourish him…When he was moved deeply to destroy the earth…he had... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Bible Message V
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Message V. “Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of men.”—Proverbs 8:4. THESE are the words of wisdom; and wisdom in the book of Proverbs is none other than our Lord and Savior... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Journey’s End
Sunday, February 28, 2010

One thing contained in heavenly rest is the ceasing from the means of grace. We have obtained the haven, we have done sailing.. When the workman receives his wages, it is implied that he has done his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Following in the Feet of David
Saturday, February 27, 2010

In considering the whole course of David's life it seems to me that at his every step he showed me the way. This was for me a marvelous solace. For although with continual wars this holy king... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

The Ministry of the Spirit and the Word
Friday, February 26, 2010

The Lord Christ had called his apostles to the great work of building his church, and the propagation of his gospel in the world. Of themselves, they were plainly and openly defective in all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

John Bunyan, a Master at the Art of Spiritualisation
Thursday, February 25, 2010

I have been much blessed by the writings I have read by John Bunyan, and also reading of his life. Here was a largely uneducated man, a common tinker, who when it came to the spiritual was a genius.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Temperance and Righteousness
Thursday, February 25, 2010

[2 quotes owing to each one\'s brevity] Do not drown yourself because you are recommended to bathe, or hang yourself on an oak because tannin is described as a valuable astringent. An allowable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Lead us Not into Temptation
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The apostle calls it to ‘fall into temptation' (1 Tim. 6:9), as a man falls into a pit or deep place where there are traps and snares with which he might be entangled. The man is not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

All Men’s Duty Toward One Another
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

True morality, or the Christian ethics, is the love of God and man, stirred up by the Spirit of Christ, through faith, and exercised in works of piety, justice, charity, and temperance…. Take... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Ignorance is Often a Choice
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

One thing that is quite clear, about the majority of Christians today, (self included) is that we do not have knowledge and indepth understanding that the puritans had nor before them the ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

Voice of an Angel, Heart of a Devil–The Hypocrite
Monday, February 22, 2010

Hypocrites are like pictures on canvas, they show fairest at farthest. A hypocrites profession is in folio, but his sincerity in decimo-sexto, nothing in the world to speak of. A hypocrite is like... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..

To Lady Kenmure on the Death of her Husband
Sunday, February 21, 2010

My Very Noble and Worthy Lady, So often as I call to mind the comforts that I myself, a poor friendless stranger, received from your Ladyship here in a strange part of the country, when my Lord took... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] .. read more..