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Meditating on Scripture with the Saints by Pasko, Mark
151. Petitionary Prayer (Justice Will Be Done) Divine providence does not early arrange what effects are to occur; it also arranges the causes of these effects and the relationship between them...in the case of prayer we do not pray in order to change God's plan, but in order to obtain by our prayers those things which God planned to bring about by means of prayers, in order, as Gregory says,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 46: 1900 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate." Hebrews 13:12. IN one sense, sanctification is wholly the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, but there is another meaning which is more usually affixed to the term,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 40: 1894 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the Tabernacle of the Congregation." Leviticus 4:7.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 14: 1868 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
’s-Day Evening, January 12th, 1868, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, “And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.”—Acts 6:7.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 23: 1877 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Rest in the Lord." Psalm 37:7. THE occurrence of our text in the Psalm before us is an instance of the great rule that the Lord does nothing by halves. In this priceless Psalm, the Lord found His servant, in the first verse, liable to fretfulness and envy—and He exhorted him to cease from fretting.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
I. The community of goods, which had so agreeably amused the imagination of Plato, The community instituted by Plato is more perfect than that which Sir Thomas More had imagined for his Utopia.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
rt IV. About two years after the last victory of Belisarius, the emperor returned from a Thracian journey of health, or business, or devotion.…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Reign And Conversion Of Clovis.—His Victories Over The Alemanni, Burgundians,…
Sermons on Several Occasions by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
“Ye must be born again.” John 3:7. 1. If any doctrines within the whole compass of Christianity may be properly termed fundamental, they are doubtless these two, — the doctrine of justification, and that of the new birth: The former relating to that great work which God does for us, in forgiving our sins; the latter,…
Life of William Carey, Shoemaker and Missionary by Smith, George (1833-1919)
CHAPTER V THE NEW CRUSADE--SERAMPORE AND THE BROTHERHOOD 1800 Effects of the news in England on the Baptists--On the home churches--In the foundation of the London and other Missionary Societies--In Scotland--In Holland and America--The missionary home--Joshua Marshman, William Ward,…