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Christ’s love made Him willing to suffer for us. And for us He has suffered all miseries that all our sins had deserved and cruelty could ...

Sometimes people either say or think "I enjoy God more in private, than in the public means of grace. Why should I attend the public me...

"MY Dear Friend, At present I am busy about my Bible; being suffered to live to read it over once again.. Two things have occurred to m...

In 1910 the Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church passed a resolution called "A Declaration anent Reformation Attainments, and the Chur...

“Therefore the second practice concerns everyone whose heart is to live for God; so that namely they may love and magnify his unique rule (P...

On 5th July 1910 the Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland opened in Inverness with a sermon by the Moderator, Rev. Alex Macrae ...

Is weak government a judgement from God upon our sins? Prov. 28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a m...

David Calderwood identified 1596 as the year of greatest "perfectioun" and "puritie" in doctrine and discipline for the ...

After one post already on this, some might question my right to comment on this. Besides having belonged to the Free Church in the past, cu...

Which makes it an extremely sad day for anyone who prizes the principles of the Scottish Reformation including the sufficiency and authority...

even in labouring for these other things, ye must do it in a godly manner. In your love to wife, husband, children, and others relations, y...

Yet more Bible versions - the Common English Bible(New) and the NIV 2011(New) take up their position in a crowded market place with aggressi...

University students around the world are taking part in an experiment called "Unplugged" to see how we react to a total media blac...

In his 1985 book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', Neil Postman wrote of the danger not of an Orwellian 1984 totalitarian world but of a...

Rutherford was one of the greatest Scottish theologians, a moving preacher and experimental writer. He is both exuberant and sublime in his ...

The puritans are mighty in the Scriptures and promote God's glory to the utmost in honouring above all His will precisely. They make god...

Thomas Ridgely, Body of Divinity So far as scripture plainly gives countenance to the doctrine in general, that the administration of Chri...

In desiring that Christ's kingdom may come, we pray that the gospel may be propagated throughout the world, the Jews called, and the ful...

William Swan Plumer Thy commandment is exceeding broad. — Psal. cxix. 96. In the text God's commandment means God's law, that hol...

One of Calvin's favourite Church Fathers was Bernard of Clairvaux (for more see here  and here ).  He may have had his faults, but he be...

This excellent lecture on church principles made me think a little about the first principles of the Church. There are first (foundationa...

sola Scriptura: Scripture alone; the watchword of the Reformation in its establishment of the basis for a renewed and reformed statement of ...

First, what are the objects before your mind in times of recreation? What do your thoughts most run upon? Second, what are the objects of y...

Man does not know himself or God truly. He does not know the greatness of his sin and misery. Neither does he know where he is going. He kno...

Returning to books, W.S Plumer records the following in relation to Psalm 27:4. 'When some one admired Leighton's library, he said: ...

This obituary  puts some words on an event that is very difficult to describe. Some  sermons  from "one of the great teaching ministrie...

When God had created all things, he ‘saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good’.  God looked upon man, body and soul an...

The puritan Thomas Fuller put things in a more succinct way than the previous post attempted to do: "A few books well chosen, and well ...