Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we...
If you are at a loss about the extent of Christ’s Death, and know not what part to take in the controversy about general and particular Redemption, look to your way-marks,...
“Behold, Your God.” (Isaiah 40:9) Get up on a high mountain, lift up your voice, be not afraid, and say to the people, “Behold your God.” That Divine person is come that was promised,...
The atonement for sin is made only by Christ, our Great High Priest. He, Himself, and no other, bore our sins; and He, Himself, purged them away. By His sacrifice alone...
“Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.” (Psalm...
Though God sees sin in His people with His eye of omniscience, yet not with His eye of revenging justice. Though He sees them, in respect of His providence, which reaches...
As we all know, God Who is absolutely sovereign in all things, Who has declared the end from the beginning, and Whose purposes and decretive will cannot be frustrated, has ordained...
“Sin shall not have dominion over you.” (Romans 6:14) Sin has dominion over God’s people in a state of unregeneracy: and after conversion it is still in them, and has great...
“I am a worm.” (Psalm 22:6) Christ calls Himself “a worm”…on account of the opinion that men of the world had of Him…the Jews esteemed Christ as a worm, and treated...
Of late years there has been a very visible decline, and a night is coming on, which we are entered into; the shadows of the evening are stretching out apace upon...
“I have finished the work Thou gavest Me to do.” (John 17:4) By “the work” is meant obedience to the will of God; the destruction of all spiritual enemies, as sin, Satan, the...
To inquire what is meant by the imputation of this righteousness; which is the way in which it becomes ours and indeed is the only way in which it can become...
“Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going to the pit, I have found a ransom.” (Job 33:24) What is that which Christ has given for the...
It is sufficiently evident, that there is a representative union between Christ and the elect, both from everlasting and in time, which is independent on, and prior to their believing in...
“Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one.”(Deuteronomy 33:8) 1. Are the true Urim and Thummim with Christ? Are all lights and perfections in Him? Let us then...
Free-will brings with it so many absurdities that it cannot be received. (a) It makes man the cause of his own salvation. (b) It puts grace into man’s power, not man’s...
The cities of refuge were types of Christ: hence a divine person, even the Messiah, is often spoken of as the refuge of His people, (Psalm 9:9 Psalm 46:1-7 Psalm 62:7-8)...
“From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall...
“Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile.” (Psalm 32:2) His thoughts toward them are thoughts of peace and not...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous, therefore, and repent;” (Revelation 3:19) ———————— The persons, the objects of Christ’s love here intended are not angels, but the...
God’s love to His Son, as a Mediator, is an everlasting love; “Thou lovedst me”, says Christ (John 17:24), before the foundation of the world. This love was a love of...
Redemption itself is a signal instance of the mercy of God. Mercy resolved upon the redemption and salvation of the elect; being viewed as fallen in Adam, and as sinners, mercy...
“O Zion, that bringest good tidings, thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say...
The final perseverance of the saints may be concluded from the purposes and decrees of God; which are infrustrable, and are always accomplished; “The Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who...
These maxims are certainly true and indisputable: (1) That nothing in time can be the cause of what was done in eternity. To believe, to do good works, and persevere in...
“For he hath made him to be sin for us” (2 Corinthians 5:21) Christ was made of a woman, took flesh of a sinful woman; though the flesh he took of...
There is no other SAVIOUR but CHRIST to look to, no other MEDIATOR between God and men to make use of, no other PHYSICIAN of value for diseased and sin-sick souls...
The Authenticity of 1 John 5:7 1 John 5:7 gives full proof of the plurality of Persons in the Godhead. “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,...
Yet this instrumentality of the word in regeneration seems not so agreeable to the principle of grace implanted in the soul in regeneration, and to be understood with respect to that;...
Acts 10:1 Ver. 1. There was a certain man in Caesarea,…. This was the Caesarea formerly called Strato’s tower, not Caesarea Philippi; for the former, and not the latter, lay near...
God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself (2 Corinthians 5:18-19), drawing the scheme of their reconciliation, ransom, and redemption: this flows from his divine counsels, who does all things...
2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. The covenant which the sweet...
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine:...
God’s love to His elect is not of yesterday; it does not begin with their love to Him, We love Him, because He first loved us. It was bore in His...
The Lord Jesus Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. As man dies but once, Christ was offered but once, or He suffered and died but once. And...
“There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.” (Psalm 46:4) These words are to be...
And as it was with Peter and the rest of the disciples, so it is with all sensible sinners and true believers who see there is no other to go to...
Hebrews 13:20 The everlasting covenant of grace is the covenant, of which Christ is the Surety and Mediator (Hebrews 7:22 8:6). This is an “everlasting one.” It commenced from everlasting, as...
…and he was reckoned among the transgressors. (Luke 22:37) —————————— …The words are a proper citation from Isaiah 53:12 which, as the whole prophecy belongs to the Messiah, was fulfilled in...
“And the Scripture was fulfilled, which saith, and he was numbered with the transgressors.” (Mark 15:28) —————————— He was no transgressor of the law of God himself, but was perfectly conformable...
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:19) ——————————...
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world,” (Galatians 6:14)...
The righteousness by which we are justified is not our own righteousness, but the righteousness of another, even the righteousness of Christ: That I may be found in Christ, says the...
“…and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6) – that is, God the Father, against Whom we have sinned, from Whom we have turned, and...
Isaiah 64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee. These words are an address of the church and people of...
1 Corinthians 14:15a What is it then ? I will pray the Spirit, and will pray with the understanding also. The design of this epistle is chiefly to reprove the Church...
The DOCTRINE OF IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS Without Works Asserted And Proved ——————————————————————————– The Works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.—PSALM 111:2 Even as David...
“For there is no respect of persons with God.” Romans 2:11 Some object from hence, though without any reason, to the doctrine of particular election of certain persons to everlasting salvation....
Acts 10:1 Ver. 1. There was a certain man in Caesarea,…. This was the Caesarea formerly called Strato’s tower, not Caesarea Philippi; for the former, and not the latter, lay near...
The Authenticity of 1 John 5:7 1 John 5:7 gives full proof of the plurality of Persons in the Godhead. “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,...
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