_The Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive._ MEN WITHOUT HEART, SIGHT, OR HEARING Feeling, sight, hearing! What wonderful things these are! If we could exist without them, what a wretched condition ours would be! The outer world would be unknown to us if the gates of the senses were shut, an... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye stand. .. before the Lord your God._ ON COVENANTING WITH GOD I. That covenanting with God, and that publicly, is not an unprecedented thing in the Church of God, but has been usual in former ages. II. What is the nature of that covenant into which the people of God have entered, and into which... [ Continue Reading ]
_A root that beareth gall and wormwood._ THE ROOT THAT BEARETH WORMWOOD I. Sin is the root which beareth gall and wormwood. 1. That this was true in the case of the Israelites is very manifest. Their history tells us the whole generation which came up out of Egypt died in the wilderness because o... [ Continue Reading ]
_To add drunkenness to thirst._ THE SIN OF DRUNKENNESS Among the vices which stamp upon human nature its fallen condition, there is not one which causes such misery, or which leads on to such reckless crime, as drunkenness. 1. It is a most selfish as well as degrading vice: it debases man, created... [ Continue Reading ]
_The secret things belong unto the Lord._ THINGS SECRET AND THINGS REVEALED Man has always had a quarrel with God over secret things. In the Garden of Eden there was one prohibition--“Thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”--and in the Garden of Eden began the quarrel wit... [ Continue Reading ]