Peace

Christ My Relief

By thepuritans August 19, 2011 Leave a comment

When Christ is at any time absent from the soul, when it cannot see that it has any interest in him, many lovers offer themselves to it, many woo its affections, to get it to rest on this or that thing for relief and succour; but though it go mourning never so long, it will have nothing but Christ […]

Let Him Appear As He Pleases

By thepuritans August 12, 2011 1 Comment

It often so falls out in our communion with Christ, when private and public means fail, and the soul hath nothing left but waiting silently and walking humbly, Christ appears ; that his so doing may be evidently of grace. Let us not at any time give over in this condition. When all ways are past, the summer and harvest […]

Dying; The Last Victorious Act Of Faith, part 6 of 6

By thepuritans June 4, 2011 Leave a comment

It is a great and eminent act of faith. [See] Hebrews 11, where the mighty efficacy and great success of faith is spoken of. One of the particulars, and that wherein many of the rest did center, is, “These all died in faith.” It was a great thing to die in faith under the Old Testament, when they were […]

The Infinite, Inexhaustible Fountain Of The Deity

By thepuritans May 6, 2011 Leave a comment

The endless, bottomless, boundless grace and compassion that is in him who is thus our husband, as he is the God of Zion. It is not the grace of a creature, nor all the grace that can possibly at once dwell in a created nature, that will serve our turn. We are too indigent to be suited with such […]