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Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 24: 1878 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Behold, now is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2. NONE can change the outward features of a day. The kings of the earth cannot command for themselves bright days nor inflict upon their enemies days of tempest.
Early Years of Christianity: The Apostolic Era by Pressensé, Edmund Dehault de (1824-1891)
Paul began his third missionary journey by visiting the Churches he had founded in Phrygia and Galatia. He had the grief of finding that in the latter country, where he had been so readily received, his adversaries had succeeded in partially nullifying his influence and in giving currency to Pharisaic legalism.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Horton, Robert Forman (1855-1934)
Prov. iii. 1-10. The general teaching of these nine introductory chapters is that the "ways of Wisdom are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." We are taught to look for the fruit of righteousness in long life and prosperity, for the penalty of sin in premature destruction.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 48: 1902 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"I have declared my ways, and You heard me: teach me Your statutes." Psalm 119:26. WORLDLY men think very little of God. They live at a distance from Him. They have no communion with Him.
Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes by Abelard, Peter (1079-1142)
CHAPTER VI OF HOW, BROUGHT LOW BY HIS LOVE FOR HÉLOÏSE, HE WAS WOUNDED IN BODY AND SOUL Now there dwelt in that same city of Paris a certain young girl named Héloïse, the niece of a canon who was called Fulbert.
St. Paul the Traveler and the Roman Citizen by Ramsay, William Mitchell (1851-1939)
CHAPTER IV. THE MISSIONARY JOURNEY OF BARNABAS AND SAUL 1 CYPRUS AND SALAMIS. (XIII 4) THEY ACCORDINGLY, BEING SENT FORTH BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, CAME DOWN TO the harbour SELEUCEIA, AND THENCE SAILED AWAY TO CYPRUS; (5) AND WHEN THEY REACHED SALAMIS THEY BEGAN TO PROCLAIM THE WORD OF GOD IN THE SYNAGOGUES OF THE JEWS; AND THEY HAD JOHN ALSO AS A SUBORDINATE.
School of Obedience by Murray, Andrew (1828-1917)
. ‘If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.’ —Rom. 11:16. How wonderful and blessed is the divine appointment of the first day of the week as a holy day of rest.
German Pulpit, Being a Selection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Modern Divines of Germany by Baker, Richard
SERMON II. CHRISTIAN CONTEMPLATION OF DIVINE JUSTICE. LORD, thou art righteous, and all thy judgments are just! Before thee, O most holy, and before thine all-searching look, the veil of dissimulation and hypocrisy, which human prudence so often throws over profligacy and crime, immediately drops; but oppressed and suffering virtue also, which, misunderstood and despised,…
Pneumatologia by Owen, John (1616-1683)
Sundry things preparatory to the work of conversion — Material and formal dispositions, with their difference — Things in the power of our natural abilities required of us in a way of duty — Internal,…
Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers by Jowett, John Henry (1864-1923)
XXXIV THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM I WANT to lead the meditations of my readers to a very familiar supplication in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy will be done.” And with what better comment upon the words can I begin than this from John Calvin: “The substance of the prayer is that God would enlighten the world by the light of His Word, would form the hearts of men by the influence of His Spirit,…