Birth: 1760 Death: 1832
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you….
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a na….
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolu….
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned h….
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in the….
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples..
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because w….
Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him..
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax..
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to an….
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls..
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for….
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ….
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they ha….
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, an….
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises hav….
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants..
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do ….
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue..
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us..
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families o….