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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.
Richard Baxter

Meditation is a middle sort of duty between the word and prayer, and hath respect to both. The word feedeth meditation, and meditation feedeth prayer. These duties must always go hand in hand; meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer. To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful. We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes… It is rashness to pray and not to meditate. What we take in the word we digest by meditation and let out by prayer. These three duties must be ordered that one may not jostle out the other. Men are barren, dry, and sapless in their prayers for want of exercising themselves in holy thoughts.
Thomas Manton

The Soul Not Material

I cannot now find time to enter “minutely” into all your speculations — speculations they are, and ever must remain, so long as you have not a “Thus saith the Lord” attached to them. But, I would ask, is not…

Annihilation

Art thou in health, my friend? Bad health, or an improper course of life must have impelled you, surely, to espouse, — I shall not say such principles, for they are not worthy of such a title, -but the “probabilities”…

Infidel Defenses Demolished

Infidels of the present day are greatly at a loss for some original vigorous spirit, — one who could skim off old discolored froth, and dive deeper than his predecessors into the stagnant pool, in order to raise a new…

The Anxiety of Infidels

A visitor, some years ago, when commenting upon the concluding article of the infidel’s creed, “I believe in all unbelief,” remarked, that it might have been better expressed thus: “I believe in all absurdity, that I may justify my unbelief…

Infidel Objections Answered

In two respects, I perceive, the infidels in Europe resemble those in America: 1st. Rejecting everything. 2nd. Affirming nothing. You consider Christianity false, but you seem quite unable to give us anything better. Why, then, should you be angry with…

Infidels Not Sincere

My persuasion is deepened, as I become acquainted with infidels, that there are few of them honest in the sentiments they pretend to entertain. A wicked course of life necessitates most infidels to espouse and contend for such principles. The…

Infidelity and Faith Contrasted

Doubtless you have read Ephesians 1:18, — “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened.” This implies that the mind has a looking faculty, as well as the body; and that our Creator has provided light as admirably adapted to the…

The Insufficiency of Infidelity

Has my infidel reader never read the story of one Aristoxenus, the musician? So great was his admiration of his profession that he defined the human soul to be nothing more than a harmony. You, from a baser motive —…

The Convert Under Sore Temptation

I do not wonder that, instead of peace you have trouble, in all your “borders.” When a prisoner has escaped, the “hue and cry” is immediately raised. So long as he remained safe in the cell, there was quietness and…

Advice to an Inquirer

You are really ingenious in ferreting out difficulties in the way of giving your heart to God. The poor heart is “divided and subdivided” upon many things, and subjected, too, to so many “anatomical dissections,” and agitated by such a…