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I have come recently to appreciate the writings of J.C.Philpot, the Strict Baptist. His 'Ears after Harvested Sheaves' is of the ver...

Elders must interview intending communicants if they are to discharge their responsibilities faithfully. The individual has their responsibi...

Sabbath day, Jan. 20. At night. The last week I was sunk so low, that I fear it will be a long time before I am recovered. I fell exceedingl...

This was published in the September issue of the FP Magazine. The Soul of Life: The Piety of John Calvin, edited and introduced by Joel R Be...

A poem by Francis Quarles compares various kinds of sin to various types of wet weather by which we become soaked.   On several Sins. Gr...

The sermon taster comes in various forms. Some will gad about from church to church looking for what suits them for the moment. Others will ...

How long shall God and his Saints reigne? How long shall the damned burn in Hell? For ever. How long is that? Imagine an hundred thousand ye...

In their ultimate consumer marketing campaign the publishers and translators of the New International Version have decided to do their best ...

Trading and Thriving in Godliness: The Piety of George Swinnock, edited by J Stephen Yuille, published by Reformation Heritage Books, in the...

'The praises of the Lord, being well considered, will yield continually new matter, and fresh delight in the work' 'There is no ...

This book review is posted at www.middletome.com The Lord's Supper Malcolm Maclean 272pp paperback Isbn 13: 9781845504281 £10.99, 2009 C...

The Puritans wrote much on both meditation and prayer separately, but they always emphasised that both are mutually indispensible. What is m...

Unfortunately one comes across those who foolishly assert that Samson committed suicide. This is impossible since Hebrews 11:34 tells us tha...

The Puritan Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664). said: "Let a man have what the world can give, yet if he have not Christ, he is nothing worth. ...

Some of the media have more respect for God's Word than those who want to go by the name of Christian and church. Under the headline : ...

Psalmody is the calm of the soul, the repose of the spirit, the arbiter of peace: it silences the wave, and conciliates the whirlwind of our...

Like all slogans, the phrase "all of life is worship" is based on an element of truth but as a simplistic generalisation it is ess...

We were encouraged that a BBC Article closed with these words from Rev. Dr James Tallach which express more clearly the point that I was wi...

Robert McCheyne's lament over the Parisian Sabbath was: " Alas ! poor Paris knows no Sabbath. All the shops are open, and all the i...

Thomas Goodwin in his invaluable treatise on Patience and its Perfect Work says, 'if you now ask a description of patience, as it thus r...