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How should God deal with us? Good days we cannot bear, evil we cannot endure. Giveth he riches unto us? then are we proud. Giveth he poverty unto us? then are we dismayed, we are impatient, and murmur against him.
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The Old Testament Scripture was perfect essentially and absolutely for it contains sufficiently as to that time the substance of doctrine necessary to salvation; although accidentally and comparatively, with respect to t…
Happy are they who are found wanting.
What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?
Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has peris…
