Saturday, November 26, 2005

Overcoming the World

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What is the World? The world and all that is in the world is described as 'the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of ...

Glory of Christ

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In the vision which we shall have above, the whole glory of Christ will be at once and always represented unto us; and we shall be enabled i...

Spiritual Worship

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A spiritual worshipper actually aspires in every duty to know God....To desire worship as an end, is carnal; to desire it as a means, and ac...

Hatred of Sin an Evidence of Love to Christ

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1. His wrongs done to Christ will prick him most. If the wrongs be done by others, they affect him; if by himself, they some way faint him. ...

Meditating often on the Word

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In the plainest text there is a world of holiness and spirituality; and if we in prayer and dependence upon God did sit down and study it, w...

Family Worship

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Families have hereby their communion kept with God, & thus are kept in the suburbs of heaven; hereby they tell him all their wants, and ...

A Fountain Sealed

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In Song of Solomon 4:12 the church is compared to a garden shut up, a fountain sealed, which is to be understood not only in respect of the ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005

John Bois and the translation of the AV

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The translators of the Authorised Version were certainly the most learned of their age (perhaps of any age) in the Biblical languages . John...

the worldly christian

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A new type of professing Christian has emerged over recent decades; one whose lifestyle is in no way different from that of an unbeliever ex...
Monday, October 03, 2005

the side winds of christian experience

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"tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience" I have heard that a full wind behind the ship drives her not so fast forwa...
Friday, September 23, 2005

the Church visible and invisible

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We may consider the Church, in two ways. 1. As visible, and visibly professing Christ, and worshipping Him in ordinances. 2. Consider her as...

Hypocrisy

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An hypocrite always makes himself the end of all his service; but let such hypocrites know, that though their profession be never so gloriou...
Saturday, September 17, 2005

Can a Protestant attend a Mass?

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In 1989 there was great media furore about the disciplining of Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the then Lord Chancellor, and elder of the Free Pre...
Monday, August 29, 2005

the scholarship of the AV translators

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Prof. Kenneth Grayston, one of the translators of the New English Bible once remarked that “the Authorised Version was a translation made by...
Saturday, August 13, 2005

True self-knowledge

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What is true self-knowledge? Self-knowledge is discerning how things ought to be with us in true spiritual obedience to God and how they act...
Saturday, July 30, 2005

catechism on godly sorrow

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What is worldly sorrow? No matter how great the grief and anxiety of conscience, worldly sorrow is of the flesh. It is counterfeit and only ...
Friday, June 10, 2005

A secular Bible for a Secular Church – Bible versions in post-war Britain

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It was shocking but not altogether surprising in 2004, when Archbishop Rowan Williams placed his seal on the new 'Bible version', ‘G...