Melancholy, morose, sour and unpleasant?
A very young Jonathan Edwards on holiness: Holiness is a most beautiful and lovely thing. We drink in strange notions …
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Open your mouth wide
Jonathan Edwards, from a May 1738 sermon, “The Terms of Prayer”: Men’s desires are naturally very large. ‘Tis no small …
Turretin the hyper-fundamentalist-plus
According to the 17th and 18th century Reformed theologian Francis Turretin, the seventh commandment includes prohibitions against “all unchaste obscenity” …
John Owen on praying for regeneration
If regeneration is the work of God (Deut 30:6; John 1:13; 3:7-8), ought we pray for this work to be …
There is no “direct correlation between my faithfulness and the fruitfulness of my public ministry.”
Here is a very good word from Mark Dever, the pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
Nothing could be more real, or more dreadful
I first began reading portions of Pascal (1623-1662) in his luminous Pensées on off class-hours at seminary with Joel …
Managing Anger, Part 4: Keep it not long; Rename injuries; Be not luxurious
Part 1 | 2 | 3 I have been reproducing a bit of the seventeenth century Puritan Edward Reynolds’ Treatise …
We cannot refuse to obey
Here is American Baptist pastor J. L. Dagg (1794-1884) with some very convicting words: “Love to God produces to obedience; …
Superstition and will worship
Baptist pastor and theologian John Gill on worship in his Body of Practical Divinity: Now for an act of religious …
Kept from an indecent familiarity by the view of his infinite majesty
These selections, taken from a letter of Jonathan Edwards, speak for themselves. ——– “. . . Let us think, dear …
Hoisted up to the heights by the crane of Jesus Christ
Ignatius of Antioch encouraged the Ephesians to ignore the heretics who were distorting the doctrines of Christ by comparing them …
Fired with a zealous and burning desire ever to seek, love, and serve him
If Jesus words are true in Matthew 6:8, “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask …
As a drowning man lays hold of a plank
J. Gresham Machen, in his Christian View of Man, a series of lectures that he originally read on the radio, …
Is justification dependent upon perseverance?
Jonathan Edwards is here specifically addressing the question of whether justifying faith is a persevering faith: . . . [I]t …
