12 January, 2019

Satan’s Stratagems to Disarm the Christian of his Breastplate Defeated 2/4

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            (2.) They are sinful when  not rightly timed.   Fruit ate out of its season is nought.  We read of ‘a time to embrace and a ...
11 January, 2019

Satan’s Stratagems to Disarm the Christian of his Breastplate Defeated 1/4

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First.  Satan attempts to make the Christian throw away his breastplate of righteousness, by pre­senting it as that which hinders the p...
10 January, 2019

Ten Directions to Guide Those Who Desire to Maintain the Power of Holiness 7/7

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Ninth Direction.  Be sure to  improve the covenant of grace for thy assistance in thy holy course.   Moses himself had his holiness not...
09 January, 2019

Ten Directions to Guide Those Who Desire to Maintain the Power of Holiness 6/7

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Seventh Direction.  Be sure to  get some Christian friend whom thou mayest trust above others to be thy faithful monitor.   O that ma...
08 January, 2019

Ten Directions to Guide Those Who Desire to Maintain the Power of Holiness 5/7

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Fifth Direction.  Be sure to  walk dependingly on God.   The vine is fruitful so long as it hath a pole or wall to run upon, but withou...
07 January, 2019

Ten Directions to Guide Those Who Desire to Maintain the Power of Holiness 4/7

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Fourth Direction.  Be sure to look often  on the perfect pattern, which Christ, in his own example, hath given thee for a holy life.   ...
06 January, 2019

Ten Directions to Guide Those Who Desire to Maintain the Power of Holiness 3/7

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Third.  Use not the true rule  partially.   To be partial in practicing is as bad as to be partial in hand­ling of the law; this made t...
05 January, 2019

Ten Directions to Guide Those Who Desire to Maintain the Power of Holiness 2/7

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Second Direction.  Be sure to  keep thine eye on the right rule thou art to walk by.   Every calling hath a rule to go by, peculiar to ...
04 January, 2019

Ten Directions to Guide Those Who Desire to Maintain the Power of Holiness 1/7

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The third thing propounded in handling the point calls now for one despatch; and that is, to  lay down some directions by way of counse...
03 January, 2019

TO THOSE WITHOUT DOORS—our Neighbours 2/2

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   In a word, dost thou think to commute with God, so as, by a greater semblance of outward zeal to God in the first table, to obtain a...