A Goodly Heritage

" Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. " — Psalm 51:4. T HERE are two lights exhibited on shore for the guidance of those "that go down to the sea in ships" — the  beacon  light, to warn them away from the dangerous reef or headland, and the  harbour  light, to direct them to a place of safety. I have seen a shipwreck take place owing to one of these lights being mistaken for the other. The account of David's sin, in the inspired history of his life, and the record of his repentance in this psalm, are like these two lights — the former warning us away from unwatchfulness, the latter guiding us back to God with confession of our sin. To take encouragement in sin from the former, instead of being warned away "from all appearance of evil," is to run the awful risk — or rather to encounter the certain danger — of soulwreck; and not to follow David, in his return, "with weeping and supplication," to God on...

Friends, what are you going to do with your souls? I will tell your answer--not that given by your lips, but the answer which your conduct gives: "I am going," you say, "to keep it in my own hand; I am going to leave it in Satan's hands; I am going to leave it in the hands of a deceitful and cruel world." Ah, poor soul! you have done this long enough. Poor fool! You do not know who your friend is, and who is your foe. Surely you would not trust yourself but in the hands of Jesus, if you knew your own position. Surely the crucified one, He who suffered the death of the cross, surely He is the one to whom you should commit your spirit. Away with your soul from yourself, away with it from the world, lose not a moment, but pass it over into the hands of Him who is "able to keep that which is committed to Him." Whatever your case may be, however unpromising, however different from every other case on the face of this earth, though you should feel that your...

T HERE are two lights exhibited on shore for the guidance of those "that go down to the sea in ships" — the  beacon  light, to warn them away from the dangerous reef or headland, and the  harbour  light, to direct them to a place of safety. I have seen a shipwreck take place owing to one of these lights being mistaken for the other. The account of David's sin, in the inspired history of his life, and the record of his repentance in this psalm, are like these two lights — the former warning us away from unwatchfulness, the latter guiding us back to God with confession of our sin. To take encouragement in sin from the former, instead of being warned away "from all appearance of evil," is to run the awful risk — or rather to encounter the certain danger — of soulwreck; and not to follow David, in his return, "with weeping and supplication," to God on His mercy-seat, is to keep our souls away from the only true rest and blessedness, and still to expose t...

In the estimation of many , the Pauline preaching is becoming an antiquated kind of thing, which , in an age such as ours, should be quite laid on a shelf as a fossil. And what do they propose to substitute?   Some would have a more unsystematic mode of presenting truth. They would cast the federal( covenant)  theology aside, and must have a fresh cast of thought and an altogether new phraseology.  And what is this new thing they have introduced? It is not easy to describe it, for it is neither law nor Gospel - and it is a rare eye that can discern it to be common sense!  It is suited to neither saint nor sinner - and where to find an audience for such preaching, in which neither of these shall be, it is utterly impossible to conjecture.     Others would have intellectual preaching, from which the old story of the cross would be excluded, and nothing supplied for either the heart or the conscience.    Others still desiderate what they...

" Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. " — Psalm 51:4. T HERE are two lights exhibited on shore for the guidance of those "that go down to the sea in ships" — the beacon light, to warn them away from the dangerous reef or headland, and the harbour light, to direct them to a place of safety. I have seen a shipwreck take place owing to one of these lights being mistaken for the other. The account of David's sin, in the inspired history of his life, and the record of his repentance in this psalm, are like these two lights — the former warning us away from unwatchfulness, the latter guiding us back to God with confession of our sin. To take encouragement in sin from the former, instead of being warned away "from all appearance of evil," is to run the awful risk — or rather to encounter the certain danger — of soulwreck; and not to follow David, in his return, "with weeping and supplication," to God on His me...

" Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. " — Psalm 51:4. T HERE are two lights exhibited on shore for the guidance of those "that go down to the sea in ships" — the  beacon  light, to warn them away from the dangerous reef or headland, and the  harbour  light, to direct them to a place of safety. I have seen a shipwreck take place owing to one of these lights being mistaken for the other. The account of David's sin, in the inspired history of his life, and the record of his repentance in this psalm, are like these two lights — the former warning us away from unwatchfulness, the latter guiding us back to God with confession of our sin. To take encouragement in sin from the former, instead of being warned away "from all appearance of evil," is to run the awful risk — or rather to encounter the certain danger — of soulwreck; and not to follow David, in his return, "with weeping and supplication," to God on...

" Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. " — Psalm 51:4. T HERE are two lights exhibited on shore for the guidance of those "that go down to the sea in ships" — the beacon  light, to warn them away from the dangerous reef or headland, and the  harbour  light, to direct them to a place of safety. I have seen a shipwreck take place owing to one of these lights being mistaken for the other. The account of David's sin, in the inspired history of his life, and the record of his repentance in this psalm, are like these two lights — the former warning us away from unwatchfulness, the latter guiding us back to God with confession of our sin. To take encouragement in sin from the former, instead of being warned away "from all appearance of evil," is to run the awful risk — or rather to encounter the certain danger — of soulwreck; and not to follow David, in his return, "with weeping and supplication," to God on ...