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Sermons on Several Occasions by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Matthew 16:26 1. There is a celebrated remark to this effect, (I think in the works of Mr.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 35: 1889 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Until he finds it. And when he has found it. And when he comes home." Luke 15:4,5, 6. THE love of Jesus, the Great Shepherd, is very practical and active. There is a sheep lost and the Lord regrets it.
Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christ's dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan by Rutherford, Samuel (1600-1661)
QUESTION. But cannot Christ be hid? Answer. Not of himself. It is hard to hide a great fire, or to cast a covering upon sweet odours, that they smell not. Christ’s name is as a sweet ointment poured out: he is a mountain of spices, and he is a strong savour of heaven, and of the higher paradise.
NPNF2-07. Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... Hephæstus, or Vulcan, to which Milton alludes (Paradise Lost, I. 740):— “Men call’d him Mulciber, and ...
Philosophy of Revelation by Bavinck, Herman (1854-1921)
Lecture 7 - Revelation and Christianity The arguments for the reality of revelation, derived from the nature of thought, the essence of nature, the character of history, and the conception of religion, are finally strengthened by the course of development through which mankind has passed, and which has led it from paradise to the cross and will guide it from the cross to glory.
Fountain of Life Opened Up by Flavel, John (1627-1691)
Sermon 32. The third of Christ’s last Words upon the Cross, illustrated. Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Golden Legend, vol. 3 by Voragine, Jacobus de (1230-1298)
, and first of this word invention. The invention of the holy cross is said because that this day the holy cross was found. For tofore it was found of Seth in Paradise terrestrial, like as it shall be said hereafter, and also it was found of Solomon in the Mount of Lebanon, and of the Queen of Sheba in the temple of Solomon, and of the Jews in the water of Piscine,…
Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ by John of the Cross, St. (1542-1591)
STANZA XXVI In the inner cellar Of my Beloved have I drunk; and when I went forth Over all the plain I knew nothing, And lost the flock I followed before. HERE the soul speaks of that sovereign grace of God in taking it to Himself into the house of His love, which is the union, or transformation of love in God.
Little Book of Eternal Wisdom by Suso, Henry (c. 1296-1366)
. On The Immeasurable Joys of Heaven. Eternal Wisdom.—Now lift up thy eyes and see where thou dost belong. Thou dost belong to the Fatherland of the celestial paradise.
History of the Origins of Christianity. Book IV. The Antichrist. by Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892).
The times were strange, and perhaps the human race had never passed through a more extraordinary crisis. Nero was in his twenty-fourth year. The head of this wretched young man, placed by a wicked mother at the age of seventeen at the head of the world, finished by losing itself.