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How a young or shaken Christian should demean himself under the weighty thoughts of the Doctrine of the Trinity or Plurality of Persons in the eternal Godhead . The reason why I say a young or shaken Christian, is, because some that are not young, but of an ancient standing, may not only be assaulted with violent temptations concerning gospel-principles, but a second time may become a child, a babe, a shallow man, in the things of God: especially, either when by backsliding he hath provoked God

The law was given twice upon Mount Sinai, but the appearance of the Lord, when he gave it the second time, was wonderfully different from that of his, when at the first he delivered it to Israel. 1.  When he gave it the first time, he caused his terror and severity to appear before Moses, to the shaking of his soul and the dismaying of Israel; but when he gave it the second time, he caused all his goodness to pass before Moses, to the comfort of his conscience and the bowing of his heart. 2.  Wh

“ Which were born , not of blood , nor of the will of the flesh , nor of the will of man , but of God ;” John i. 13. The words have a dependence on what goes before, and therefore I must direct you to them for the right understanding of it.  You have it thus,—“He came to his own, but his own received him not; but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them which believe on his name; which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God

Sin is the great block and bar to our happiness, the procurer of all miseries to man, both here and hereafter; take away sin, and nothing can hurt us; for death temporal, spiritual, and eternal, is the wages of it. Sin, and man for sin, is the object of the wrath of God.  How dreadful therefore must his case be who continues in sin; for who can bear and grapple with the wrath of God? No sin against God can be little, because it is against the great God of heaven and earth; but if the sinner can

Nothing can render affliction so heavy as the load of sin; would you therefore be fitted for afflictions, be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what afflictions soever you meet with will be very easy to you. If thou canst hear and bear the rod of affliction which God shall lay upon thee, remember this lesson, thou art beaten that thou mayst be better. The Lord useth his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat. The school of the cross is the school of light

The end of affliction is the discovery of sin; and of that to bring us to the Saviour; let us therefore, with the prodigal, return unto him, and we shall find ease and rest. A returning penitent, though formerly bad as the worst of men, may by grace become as good as the best. To be truly sensible of sin, is to sorrow for displeasing of God: to be afflicted, that he is displeased by us more than that he is displeased with us. Your intentions to repentance, and the neglect of that soul-saving dut

Before you enter into prayer, ask thy soul these questions, 1.  To what end , O my soul! art thou retired into this place?  Art thou come to converse with the Lord in prayer?  Is he present, will he hear thee?  Is he merciful, will he help thee?  Is thy business slight, is it not concerning the welfare of thy soul?  What words wilt thou use to move him to compassion? To make thy preparation complete, consider that thou art but dust and ashes ; and he the great God, Father of our Lord Jesus Chris

Have a special care to sanctify the Lord’s-day; for as thou keepest it, so will it be with thee all the week long. Make the Lord’s-day the market for thy soul; let the whole day be spent in prayer, repetitions, or meditations; lay aside the affairs of the other parts of the week; let the sermon thou hast heard be converted into prayer : shall God allow thee six days, and wilt thou not afford him one? In the church, be careful to serve God; for thou art in his eyes, and not in man’s. Thou mayst h

Nothing more hinders a soul from coming to Christ than a vain love of the world ; and till a soul is freed from it, it can never have a true love for God. What are the honours and riches of this world, when compared to the glories of a crown of life? Love not the world, for it is a moth in a Christian’s life. To despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer. What folly can be greater than to labour for the meat that perisheth, and n

It is not every suffering that makes a man a martyr; but suffering for the Word of God after a right manner; that is, not only for righteousness , but for righteousness’ sake; not only for truth , but out of love to truth; not only for God’s Word, but according to it: to wit, in that holy, humble, meek manner, as the Word of God requireth. It is a rare thing to suffer aright, and to have my spirit in suffering bent against God’s enemy, sin.  Sin in doctrine, sin in worship, sin in life, and sin

As the devil labours by all means to keep out other things that are good, so to keep out of the heart as much as in him lies, the thoughts of passing out of this life into another world; for he knows if he can but keep them from the serious thoughts of death , he shall the more easily keep them in their sins. Nothing will make us more earnest in working out the work of our salvation than a frequent meditation of mortality; nothing hath a greater influence for the taking off our hearts from vanit

There is no good in this life but what is mingled with some evil: honours perplex, riches disquiet, and pleasures ruin health.  But in heaven we shall find blessings in their purity, without any ingredient to imbitter; with everything to sweeten it. O! who is able to conceive the inexpressible, inconceivable joys that are there!  None but they who have tasted of them.  Lord, help us to put such a value upon them here, that in order to prepare ourselves for them, we may be willing to forego the l

Heaven and salvation is not surely more promised to the godly, than hell and damnation is threatened to, and shall be executed on, the wicked. Oh! who knows the power of God’s wrath?  None but damned ones. Sinners’ company are the devil and his angels, tormented in everlasting fire with a curse. Hell would be a kind of paradise, if it were no worse than the worst of this world. As different as grief is from joy, as torment from rest, as terror from peace; so different is the state of sinners fro