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| 1. | 1 Corinthians 12, Remarks and Thoughts on |
| "Now concerning spiritual operations (or, manifestations)." This word is preferable to that of "gifts," because here it includes diabolical operations, as well as operations of the Spirit, and we do not like to call that which is really the working of the devil a "gift." Such is the meaning of |
| 2. | 1 Timothy |
| In 1 Timothy there is nothing of privileged relationship. The Father is not spoken of, nor children, nor the Bride, the Lamb's wife. It is God in His own nature and being, a Savior, but God as such in nature. Hence also law and Judaism are left behind, useful in |
| 3. | 2 Corinthians 13:4 |
| Eph. 2:1 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; (Ephesians 2:1); Rom. 6:2; 10:112 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Romans 6:2)
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (Romans 10:11) Gal. 2:1919 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. (Galatians 2:19). |
| 4. | 2 Corinthians 3, Brief Thoughts on |
| This chapter brings out the way in which the power of the truth works on our souls to bring us into the presence of the Lord. It begins with the effect of this in testimony to others; and then lets us know how the effect is produced,—what a Christian, and |
| 5. | 2 Peter 1:19 - Day Star and Revelations 2:28 - Morning Star |
| . 2 Cor. 4¨10. What is meant by νέκρωσιν (translated in the English Bible "dying") here? Is it "deadness" or the state of death, or " what else? W. |
| 6. | Absolute, The |
| Turtle can be no absolute knowledge in man by his own reason, but only relative. God only is absolute; all other existences can be only relative, because there is only God absolute. |
| 7. | Achill Herald Recollections |
| Nos. I., II., and III. |
| 8. | Achill Herald Recollections, The |
| I proceed to review briefly the rest of these "Recollections of Separatists," having noticed the first three in the Bible Treasury for April. |
| 9. | Acts 7 |
| Acts 7—I had not sufficiently observed the completeness of the whole view given at the close of the discourse. First, on the testimony of the prophets, the whole Jewish foundation is set aside as a dwellingplace of God, as being mere creation. Next, as to the moral position of |
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| 1 John 1 " That which was from the beginning," denotes that the life, though in its source eternal, was looked at as in man, a new and absolutely original thing. This is very important. As to its nature, the life, which is our life [as Christians], is an |
| 20. | All of One |
| Q. Heb. 2:11-18 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted. (Hebrews 2:11-18).-(1.) What is the force of "all of one?" (2.) The connection of the three passages of the Old Testament that follow? (3.) What is the difference between being "partakers of flesh and blood," and taking "part of the same?" |
| 21. | Apostolic Succession |
| Succession was contemplated in the Jewish polity. It is not in that of the Church, because no time, no future, is in the thought of the Spirit, so as to sustain the idea of succession. "If I tarry," I may say, in the language of Him who orders the Church. |
| 22. | Are You Brought to God? |
| The apostle leads us to expect suffering. There will be more or less of it; for though called to " inherit a blessing," it is through suffering here. This passage spews out the result of God's government, but, besides that, it shows that we are brought to God. This is |
| 23. | As It Was at the Beginning? and What Is Its Present State? What Is the Church? |
| We may consider the Church in two points of view. First, it is the formation of the children of God into one body united to Christ Jesus ascended to heaven, the glorified man; and that by the power of the Holy Ghost. In the second place, it is the |
| 24. | Assimilating Power of Christ, The |
| There is one very precious feature that is found in John's Epistle and indeed elsewhere, in his writings, that we cannot see Christ really as He was and is without being wrought upon and formed according to Him. There is such an assimilating power in Christ that it is impossible |
| 25. | Atoning Death of Christ, The: Correction |
| I am sorry to think that any should need a word of explanation on a phrase or two in page 319, Col. 1. Nothing I venture to say is farther from the author than denying the resting place of his soul, and the doctrine he has ever preached—the atoning |
| 26. | Babylon |
| " Sanctify them by thy truth, thy word is truth." This is a saying much to be remembered. It teaches us that we are not to make ourselves the judges of what sanctification or holiness is; God's word is to determine this; because holiness is that character or mind which |
| 27. | Belshazzar's Feast in Its Application to the Great Exhibition |
| While Jeremiah was left at Jerusalem to witness the course of moral corruption there, and to warn of coming judgments, and while Ezekiel was among the remnant in the place of discipline or of righteousness on the river Chebar, Daniel is set among the Gentiles, even at Babylon, to learn |
| 28. | Blessing and Giving Thanks |
| John 11—Jesus as the God of life enters the house of death. He had done so ever since sin had worked. (See Gen. 3; 6:18, Ex. 12, Josh. 2) Faith has thus always talked of life in the midst of death, as we see in |
| 29. | Blessing and Giving Thanks |
| Popery attaches Christ to unity, and hence may and does legalize with his name every corruption and evil. Christianity attaches unity to Christ, and therefore gives it all the character of grace and truth that is in him—gives it all his excellence |
| 30. | Christ Alone |
| This position of Christ is very striking as showing the absolute intrinsic perfectness of His love and obedience. There is an end of man. All that was in man was hatred to God in goodness; so that he has no sustainment from man—only evil. He turns to God, and there |
| 31. | Christ Dwelling in Us |
| Christ dwelling in us—that is light, life, fragrance, holiness. Many seek Christ within before finding Christ without, and so cannot attain to peace; many, after finding Christ without, do not seek diligently to have Christ within. To have both Christ without and Christ within is peace and purity. |
| 32. | Christian Observer, The |
| This evangelical magazine again assails the " Plymouth Brethren," as they call them. Are they wise? It may be doubted; for while they own their hopelessness of convincing those they oppose, we are pretty sure that, the more they write on the subject, the more they expose their want of |
| 33. | Christian Observer, The |
| (Concluded from page 223) |
| 34. | Church, Thoughts on the |
| Acquaintance with the truth of the Church is indispensable for the setting free of the soul. I call him set free who has done with all questions between himself, God, and Satan. |
| 35. | Colossians 1:1-8, Notes on |
| It is hardly possible for the most careless reader to overlook the kindred truth set forth in this epistle and in that to the Ephesians. Union with Christ, the Head of His body the Church, has a place here beyond all other scriptures; for though 1 Corinthians may present the |
| 36. | Colossians 1:19-23, Notes on |
| With the pre-eminence of Christ in all things two great considerations are connected. First, all fullness was pleased to dwell in Him. It was not a partial nor any manifestation of God: this might have been in any man; but here all fullness was pleased in Him to dwell. This |
| 37. | Colossians 1:24-29 and 2:1-3, Notes on |
| I should judge that there was a slight put upon the gospel by some of those who were exercising an evil influence at Colosse. They may have thought it good in its place as awakening the unconverted; but what had Christians to do with it? The apostle insists not only |
| 38. | Colossians 1:9-18, Notes on |
| In the last portion we saw how the apostle could speak of the effects of the gospel from the day they had heard it and knew the grace of God in truth. Grace is not like the law. The ten words are chiefly negative. The law, for the most part, |
| 39. | Colossians 2:13-19, Notes on |
| Much as the spirit of god brings out the quickening power of Christ in this epistle, he never pursues the ultimate or highest consequences of the work of Christ. Quickened or raised up by him, or rather raised together with him, is the utmost we find here; but there he |
| 40. | Colossians 2:20-23, Notes on |
| Here we have the application spiritually of these two great truths, the death and the resurrection of Christ. They had been already put together in verse 12. " Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him." "And you, being dead in your sins, hath he quickened |
| 41. | Colossians 2:4-12, Notes on |
| To some minds there may be a difficulty in the strong language on the one hand, in which the apostle speaks of the Colossians' faith and order; and on the other, in the solemn warnings with which the epistle abounds. It might seem hard at first sight to reconcile the |
| 42. | Colossians 3:1-11, Notes on |
| We have seen death with Christ and its consequences applied to the danger which menaced the Colossian saints, judging the evil into which Satan was trying to draw them back. But the effect of this death with Christ was there regarded chiefly in a negative point of view. Why were |
| 43. | Colossians 3:12-17, Notes on |
| In Ephesians the ground for not lying is because we are members one of another. Here it is treated as inconsistent with our having put off the old and put on the new man. Thus it is an evident contradiction of the new nature, as well as of the judgment |
| 44. | Colossians 3:18-25, Notes on |
| Hitherto the exhortations have been entirely general. Now the apostle enters upon special relationships. The Spirit begins, as a rule, in these exhortations with the subordinate ones, with those under authority, rather than with those who are called to exercise it. The wisdom of this is manifest. If the one |
| 45. | Colossians 4:2-18, Notes on |
| " Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving." (Ver. 2.) The habit, the persevering habit of prayer, is of immense moment. And as Luke 18, so this chapter presses it strongly, though the apostle does not look for such far extending and thorough spirit of supplication as in |
| 46. | Confederacies of Men and Judgments of God |
| Scripture contemplates hostile associations of men and of nations. Isa. 7, 8, was the era of one and the prophecy of another. Joel 3 tells of " multitudes, multitudes," gathered together in the day of Jerusalem's final sorrow. Psa. 83 anticipates a confederacy against the Israel |
| 47. | Conquerors |
| When we look a little at the different agents of evil and of delusions exhibited in the Book of Revelation, we wonder how any soul will escape. And then, when we remember that though these agents have not yet been manifested, yet that the energies which are to animate and |
| 48. | Day Star and Morning Star |
| Q. Eph. 4:13 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (Ephesians 4:13). Why is "the knowledge of the on of God" added to "the unity of the faith," and what is meant by each? and by "the perfect man'?" and "the measure of the stature of Christ?" and why not ἄνδρα rather than |
| 49. | Death of Lazarus |
| " Sorrow is a sacred thing," it has been justly and beautifully said. But it is a fruitful thing also. If a sorrowing house be a sanctuary, so that no rude foot should trespass, it is also a spot for divine husbandry, and ready to yield its good |
| 50. | Death to the Believer?, What Is |
| The hope of the believer is not death. It is " not to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life." lie need not be unclothed, that is, of himself. The purpose of God is nothing less than that we should be conformed to the |
| 51. | Discipline: Hezekiah |
| Nothing is more interesting or helpful to us than to be taught the ways of God by a living example; one like ourselves in nature and feeling, used of God and empowered by Him to do His will. We see where the grace of God works and where it is |
| 52. | Discipline: Job |
| The allusion which is made to Job in James 5:11 11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. (James 5:11)., viz., " ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy," is enough to draw the attention of any earnest soul to |
| 53. | Discipline: Job |
| Bildad replies (chap. 18) in angry and reproachful terms; and in a pointed way traces step by step the course of the wicked; first " taken in a snare, because his own counsel bath cast him down, until he shall have neither son nor nephew among his people. Surely such |
| 54. | Distrust of God |
| Before Satan introduced lusts into man's heart, He produced distrust of God: when this was brought in, man was easily a prey—all was really done. So with what infinite goodness and surpassing grace God attracts and warrants confidence for the chief of sinners in Christ. |
| 55. | Dorman's Appeal |
| W. H. D.'S "Appeal." |
| 56. | Dr. Capadose and the Dutch Reformed Church |
| Allow me to send you some extracts from a pamphlet recently published in Holland by Dr. Capadose, a man well known in Holland and elsewhere, as a Christian, (converted from Judaism, I suppose, nine and thirty years ago), and valued and respected in the religious world since. It is not |
| 57. | Dying - Deadness or Killing? |
| Q. 2 Peter 1:9 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. (2 Peter 1:9). How does the "day-star" (φωσφόρος) differ from the morning-star (ὀ ἀστὴρ ὁ πρῳϊνὸς) in Rev. 2:2828 And I will give him the morning star. (Revelation 2:28)? It is well known that in Rev. 22:1616 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. (Revelation 22:16) the reading ὀρθρνὸς is spurious, and it should be πρωϊνὸς as in chapter 2. |
| 58. | Ecclesiastes |
| It is a common and a correct thought that the Book of Ecclesiastes is a writing, under the Holy Ghost, upon the vanity of all things "under the sun." |
| 59. | Ecclesiastical Independency, On |
| (1) The point I take to be fatally dangerous is confounding private judgment and conscience. We see the full-blown fruit of it in the present state of Protestantism, where private judgment is used to authorize the rejection of everything the individual does not agree with. |
| 60. | Elohistic and Jehovistic Notion, The |
| The statement as to Elohistic and Jehovistic sources of the Mosaic history is without any other foundation than ignorance And the low German habits of criticism-I say, low habits. Even Stuart, I judge (" On the Canon of Scripture")) does not escape this. For we do not read with God |
| 61. | Eternal Punishment, Letter on |
| My Dear Brother, |
| 62. | Evangelical Organs of 1866 Christian Observer |
| In " The Christian Observer" for August, 1866, an article appears on " Plymouth Brethrenism," largely cited, and adopted without question, in " The Record" of August 20. This I purpose to notice briefly, not so much to vindicate what they assail as to point out the state |
| 63. | Extracts From Correspondence: Christ in Gethsemane and on the Cross |
| I was much struck lately with the way in which Christ was answered and overcame in Gethsemane and on the cross. I apprehend, while looking forward to the dreadful cup, the proper and immediate trial of Gethsemane was the power of darkness; the great point was to get between His |
| 64. | Extracts From Correspondence: Dependence |
| It is so true that we have all grace in our living Head, and I do pray that we may be enabled, in holding fast the Head, to draw continually thence, and to be preserved from what would hinder the life of that blessed One in our mortal bodies. When |
| 65. | Extracts From Correspondence: Exercise of Gifts |
| There is a point in your letter I would just touch upon, and that is respecting the exercise of gifts. When the object in going to the Lord's table, and to meetings for worship, or for prayer, is to "exercise gift," it is plain that the true character of such |
| 66. | Extracts From Correspondence: God's Presence Is Power |
| I trust there may be no questioning of what was once so plain to many as a path of duty. I am a little afraid of some being unsettled by looking too much to the present condition of gatherings, instead of the fact of God's having a further work of |
| 67. | Faith and Righteousness of God |
| The person of Christ is the object of faith; but he who believes has part in the righteousness of God, which is revealed as the portion of the believer. |
| 68. | Faith's Ivory Palaces |
| By-and-by all the Lord's garments will smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia, by reason of the greetings of His people. God will have anointed Him to the throne " with the oil of gladness;" and they will welcome Him out of their " ivory palaces." (See Psa. 45) |
| 69. | First Corinthians 15:47-49, Thoughts on |
| There are two characters of relationship into which we are brought; one is our union with Christ, and the other our relationship along with Christ to God as our Father, He being the firstborn of many brethren. " As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And |
| 70. | Fragment |
| Note the tenses of the participles in 1 John 9, and 5:18 is Ἰεγεννημένος is the state, γεννηθεὶς is the fact, the consequence of which is that he keeps himself. |
| 71. | Fragment: 2 Corinthians 12 |
| Flesh is seen in three distinct positions: first, when the man is in the third heaven and there has no consciousness of it at all; secondly, in the activity of its own will at the end of the chapter when it is sin; and, thirdly, in conflict but disallowed. Here |
| 72. | Fragment: Abraham and the World |
| Abraham gives up the world in liberty, conquers it in power, and refuses it that he may have everything from God. He is blessed of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth. |
| 73. | Fragment: Abraham the First Object of a Promise |
| There was no promise before Abraham to any person as an object and depositary of it. There was an object of faith in the judgment of the serpent as to the promised seed; but there was no person an object of promise. |
| 74. | Fragment: Christianity of the Busy Life |
| The Christianity of the closet, and the Christianity of busy life, are not, as is often fancied, conflicting things. The man who has fellowship with Jesus in his solitude knows how to carry the savor of the fellowship even into the most common affairs. There is need of prayer in |
| 75. | Fragment: Difference Between Love and Self |
| Self likes to be served and thinks itself great; love serves and is great. |
| 76. | Fragment: God in the Book of Job |
| It is to be specially noted in the book of Job that in its introduction and close (Chap. 1:1-6 being the history of the book) we have Jehovah. In all the book itself, including the speech of Elihu, we have Elohim, Shaddai, &c. Here we have the ways of God |
| 77. | Fragment: God's Word |
| A child of God who sins is entitled to believe that he is forgiven on confession to his father. If he doubts, it is not humility or holiness, but distrust of God in Christ. Probably he is looking for some sign or token; but God will never give this, for |
| 78. | Fragment: Hooker's Doctrine |
| When I weigh Hooker's doctrine with the word of God, I am not at a loss to judge what are the views of law absolute, and others to which I am invited to look, in contrast with the plain declarations of scripture. Hooker uses them to vindicate those things in |
| 79. | Fragment: Hope an Inheritance |
| The hope in Peter, and indeed in Colossians, though not connected with so high a dispensational place, yet is itself as an inheritance a higher hope, not the inheritance of all things, which, though in a certain sense general since it may continue (Rev. 21:7 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Revelation 21:7), Heb. 2), yet |
| 80. | Fragment: John 3:13-14 |
| Remark the amazing power of the words in John 3:13, 14 13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: (John 3:13-14), thus brought together—the Son of man in heaven, and the Son of man must be lifted up—whether we consider His person, or the grace that is in that "must," as sheaving how he had thoroughly taken up our |
| 81. | Fragment: Justification: Washed and Accepted |
| As to justification, there is a point I must remark. Two things unite in it: first, there is the blood which has washed us from our sins; and this is perhaps properly called justification. But in fact we may add to it our acceptance in the beloved. If any one |
| 82. | Fragment: Matthew 26 |
| Note, in Matt. 26 (besides his being the Christ, the Son of God as come among the Jews on the earth, living amongst men,) the double position of the Son of man—sitting at the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. |
| 83. | Fragment: Pictures From Abraham and Joseph |
| If Abraham gives us the bright and blessed picture of communion with God, in Joseph we find goodness and unsullied integrity of heart toward God in the midst of the power of evil. It is lovely, and in this a beautiful foreshadowing of the Lord in his life, the beloved |
| 84. | Fragment: Psalm 102 |
| Psa. 102—What is peculiar in this Psalm is that it brings out the person of Christ, His divine nature, in answer to His sufferings and cutting off. It is not grace to others by His sufferings, nor judgment on others because of their iniquity in inflicting them. But in |
| 85. | Fragment: Psalm 69 |
| To correspondents: The sealing of the spirit is connected with the gospel of our salvation. This makes what has perplexed many pretty clear. It is when the gospel of simple salvation is received that we are sealed: so indeed it was with Cornelius. |
| 86. | Fragment: Resurrection of Christ |
| The resurrection of Christ, laid hold of by faith, is the pivot of true separation to God. It is the only thing that enables a man to make a clean break with the world and the flesh, as it is the witness of victory over Satan and judgment. |
| 87. | Fragment: Romans 6 |
| Rom. 6 considers first sin in respect of nature, and then the man in respect of relationship, and subjection and (as noted elsewhere) obedience to a person in contrast with a law. |
| 88. | Fragment: Romans 6:4-8 |
| I apprehend the " shall" of Rom. 6:5 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: (Romans 6:5) is not future but consequence. Verse 6 is corroborative of it, the result being the last words of verse 4. Verse 8 is consequence, but on to the future, and this, because there is power in his resurrection. (Ver 9.) But |
| 89. | Fragment: The Grand Blunder of Schleiermacher |
| The grand blunder of Schleiermacher, and the source of the worst infidelity now, is that he has taken the Holy Ghost's work in us—very likely in himself for intuition, or specially collective Christian consciousness. He made divine teaching, in which case it is real, to be a title of human |
| 90. | Fragment: The Sanctuary of God |
| If a man is a Christian, he belongs to the sanctuary of God. God has given him a present place inside the holiest, which faith should use to judge flesh by. |
| 91. | Fragment: The Whole Truth |
| It is to be remarked as to scripture, that Paul declares his doctrine (i.e., of the church) completes it (Col. 1:25 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; (Colossians 1:25)), and that (Gal. 1:8, 98 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8-9)) he will not have any gospel besides. It would be ἔτερον, not ἄλλο. Thus we are certain to have the |
| 92. | Fragment: Without Christ We Have Nothing |
| If we have Christ, we have all—without Christ we have nothing. You can be happy without money, without liberty, without parents, and without friends, if Christ is yours. If you have not Christ, neither money, nor liberty, nor parents, nor friends can make you happy. Christ, with a chain, is |
| 93. | Fragment: Worldly Religions |
| A worldly religion, which forms a system in which the world can walk, and in which the religious element is adapted to man on the earth, is the denial of Christianity. |
| 94. | Fragments Gathered Up: Abel's Sacrifice |
| Abel's sacrifice was rather an offering to God than redemption. Therewith he could come and be received by faith, and so it is used in Hebrews. It was Abel's offering, not God's redemption. |
| 95. | Fragments Gathered Up: Christ Not Law-Transgressing |
| It has been wrongly said that, if Christ's whole life had not been law-fulfilling, it must have been law-transgressing. This is simply that He was incapable of going beyond that to which all as creatures are subject. If there is no alternative but law-keeping and law-transgressing, there could have been |
| 96. | Fragments Gathered Up: Distinguishing Between Sins and Sorrows |
| Your comfort and enlargement of heart in walking with God, will depend not a little on your rightly distinguishing between your sins and your sorrows. To take all your natural, it may be sometimes your Christ-like, sorrows to the blood of atonement, as if they were altogether sinful, would have |
| 97. | Fragments Gathered Up: Hooker's Doctrine |
| Hooker takes up these forms of law, first, a rule imposed by authority, alone held to be such by some, which he extends to any rule by which actions are framed. I have no objection. The first only is properly law, and the difference is all-important; but the second is |
| 98. | Fragments Gathered Up: Joel 2:30 |
| Joel 2:30 30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. (Joel 2:30) is a new sentence connected with the end of verse 31. Thus the pouring out of the Spirit on all flesh, in its literal and last accomplishment would be after Jehovah had settled His people in the land: the signs will be before. Its accomplishment consequent upon |
| 99. | Fragments Gathered Up: Not Alive Under Sin or Law |
| We, Christians, are not looked at as alive under sin but as dead—hence not as alive under law but as dead. Let it be remembered that no deliverance from law is deliverance from obedience or commandments. I add " commandments;" for it is not sufficient to be right: Christ's authority |
| 100. | Fragments Gathered Up: Presence of God |
| The presence of God keeps everything in its place—nothing else: otherwise the human mind works. John does not worship up in heaven: when others did, his place was to see and record. The living creatures celebrate God, the elders worship. When John sees the angel, he was going to worship |
| 101. | Galatians |
| Galatians.—The apostle would establish the saints in personal, immediate confidence in God, from which Judaism was withdrawing them. He does this by showing them his own commission, revelations, experience, and acts, all immediate and personal (chap. 1, 2); and then by challenges and reasonings. (Chap. 3) Thus he would |
| 102. | Galatians 3, Thoughts on |
| The apostle has been speaking to the Galatians in chapter 2 as having had a sense of, what they had gained in Christ, and now in chapter 3 he has to address them thus: ‘" Who hath bewitched you to make you go back to law when you have been |
| 103. | Genesis 3 |
| Gen. 3 presents only the earthly or governmental consequences of sin. Whatever were the developments of relationship, or the experiences of saints which necessarily savored of the truth, the full separation from God which sin causes was only brought out when he himself was revealed and indeed could only |
| 104. | Gethsemane |
| The state of the heart has more to do than exegesis with the understanding of this passage. Yet important doctrines, or rather facts and truths relative to Christ, are connected with these remarkable verses. I shall try to bring out the position in which the ever blessed Savior is found |
| 105. | Glory in the Cloud, The |
| The cloud which conducted Israel through the wilderness was the servant and the companion of the camp. But it was the veil or the covering of the glory also. Commonly it appeared in the sight of Israel only as a cloud, and the glory was known only by faith to |
| 106. | God Manifested in the Flesh |
| Throughout St. John's Gospel we may perceive that a sense of the glory of His person is ever present to the mind of Christ. Whether we follow Him from scene to scene of His public ministry (chap. 1-12), through His parting words with His elect (chap. 13-17), in the path |
| 107. | God Seeing Us and Our Seeing God |
| " For he endured as seeing him who is invisible." |
| 108. | God, What Proves There Is a |
| What proves there is a God proves that we cannot know or conceive an idea of Him—that is, that there must be a cause for what exists. There is a God; for nothing can exist without a cause; but that is not God. I am sure there is a God; |
| 109. | Grace and Law |
| The difference between grace and law is that grace depends on what God is for me; law, on what I am for God. In the presence of God no one is proud. It is away from Him (as to the consciousness of it) that pride works. |
| 110. | Greek Article, Hints on the |
| All my experience has confirmed the principle stated elsewhere, that the article is used when the object of the mind is spoken of, and is left out when the word or combination of words is characteristic. This does not at all conflict with its being the notion expressed by |
| 111. | He Will Swallow up Death in Victory |
| There would seem to be a difficulty from the position which the words " He will swallow up death in victory" occupy in the strain of the prophet Isaiah, which, containing many subjects, begins with chapter 13, and ends with chapter 17. But, as usual, every difficulty of scripture serves |
| 112. | Hebrews |
| In Eph. 4:3-6 3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:3-6), though the subject is enlarged and the character of the unities defined, yet there is clear reference to the end of Eph. 2—the house as well as the body. God is not, that I am aware, said to build the house. " Ye, coming as |
| 113. | Hooker and the Law |
| We are told of absolute law, and referred to Hooker. Hooker, as is known, pleaded the cause of the Episcopalian establishment against Travers, resting it on the nature of law, with a view to justify the obligation of what was not contained in scripture. I have nothing to do with |
| 114. | Hosea 14:9 |
| Hos. 14:9 9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. (Hosea 14:9).—We have to remark that all the dealings of God with Israel were not again of absolute final pardon or clearing, but governmental. As a figure, their redemption as a nation was at the Red Sea; and they were brought to God. They then took up law first; |
| 115. | House and the Body, The |
| The epistle to the Hebrews puts the saint (and strictly the Jewish remnant) in perfect present connection with heavenly things and places, but connects them with the whole course of previous revelations, and also with the coming dispensation. |
| 116. | House of God at Jerusalem, The |
| Virtues make an object more attractive to a right mind than dignities or station. If a stranger passed before us, and we were told that he was one who by his courage or intellect bad won great consideration for himself among men; and then another passed, of whom it was |
| 117. | House of God, Thoughts on the |
| Our first duty, I doubt not, is this, to acquaint ourselves with our condition in the dispensation. We are not only to know the character of the dispensation itself, but its history and progress |
| 118. | Isaiah 33, Notes on |
| The Spirit of God, having given us a blessed picture of the King Messiah reigning in righteousness, here contrasts with it a certain spoiler who is not expressly named by our prophet. But we need not find much difficulty in identifying him, if we remember the last prophecy of Ezekiel |
| 119. | Isaiah 34-35, Notes on |
| The Spirit of God has here brought together the earthly extremes of unsparing judgment, and of unmingled mercy; these things in two races naturally akin, but so much the more manifesting this divergence and the divine dealing with each from beginning to end. These nations, so judged and so blessed, |
| 120. | Isaiah 36-37, Notes on |
| These chapters form the first portion of the historical episode which severs the earlier half of the prophecy from its latter half. They are of importance not only for the weighty facts they present (for this is sufficiently done and in a two-fold point of view in 2 Kings and |
| 121. | Isaiah 38-39, Notes on |
| The history we have seen in the preceding chapters is but a testimony to the total destruction which awaits the final Assyrian, as well as his hosts, in the latter day, and upon the mountains of Israel. This will be the more striking because he will, first of all, be |
| 122. | Isaiah 40, Notes on |
| A sensibly different portion of the prophecy now opens on us. No longer is the overthrow of kings and peoples in the foreground; nor are we occupied as before with the various Gentile enemies that long beset and troubled Israel. Hence, most appropriately introducing it, stands a touching controversy between |
| 123. | Isaiah 41, Notes on |
| This chapter, if it be not a second part with the preceding one as the first, is a most appropriate sequel. For the Lord, having opened His counsels as to Jerusalem and its comfort (after many vicissitudes and troubles) at His coming in power and glory, turns now to the |
| 124. | Isaiah 44-45, Notes on |
| The opening verses (1-5), seem to be the proper conclusion of the foregoing chapter. The salvation of God is worthy of Himself, even as it springs from His own grace, and can have no end short of His own glory. Hence it is that not only God blots out His |
| 125. | Isaiah 46-48, Notes on |
| These three chapters close this section of the prophecy, the discussion of Israel's guilty love of idols in presence of the doom of Babylon, the patron of idolatry and the instrument of the punishment of the Jews for that sin. |
| 126. | Isaiah 49, Notes on |
| A NEW division of Isaiah opens here. It is no longer Babylon and idolatry and a destruction viewed as the overthrow of image worship in the earth. Here it is the far deeper question of Christ Himself and His rejection by the Jews. We shall find that this portion, from |
| 127. | Isaiah 50, Notes on |
| Our last chapter set forth the vast change which turns on the substitution of Christ, the true Servant of God, for Israel His servant publicly and responsibly but in truth the slave of His enemy. The new sin of the people ensued thereon, not idolatry, but rejection of the Messiah |
| 128. | Isaiah 51-52, Notes on |
| In chapter 1 we have seen the divine Messiah in the depths of humiliation, but the Lord Jehovah helping and justifying Him. In chapter 53 (which really begins at 52:13) we shall see Him " wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities," when Jehovah " laid on him the |
| 129. | Isaiah 52:13-15 and Isaiah 53, Notes on |
| This section is complete in itself, though it assumes the truth already before us in chapter 1., pursues it farther and more profoundly, and thus completes the foundation of all that follows. |
| 130. | Isaiah 54-55, Notes on |
| How beautifully seasonable is the voice of the Spirit calling on Jerusalem to sing, after His own clear and full prediction of Messiah rejected of Israel and bruised of Jehovah in atonement! Indeed the last section of the prophecy gave us a most striking and instructive rehearsal or dialog between |
| 131. | Isaiah 56-57, Notes on |
| The two chapters before us carry on the same line of truth we have seen since the rejection and atoning death of Christ came distinctly into view, and pursue the consequences of that infinite fact. As far as a natural division goes, I should be disposed to close the first |
| 132. | Isaiah 58-59, Notes on |
| To these chapters one might add chapter lx. as completing this series. It is the opening of the last section of the prophecy. (Chap. 58-66) The Spirit had closed both His counts against God's ancient people, their idolatry, and their rejection of the Messiah, with the consequences and the certainty |
| 133. | Isaiah 60, Notes on |
| As we have had the failure and guilt of Israel in idolatry and the rejection of the Messiah, traced down to their reception of " the king" as well as idols in the last days; so now we have not a pledge or promise of covenanted blessing under the Redeemer-King, |
| 134. | Isaiah 63:1-6, Notes on |
| These verses connect themselves with the close of chapter 62, following up the coming of the Messiah as the Deliverer of Zion, no longer forsaken but sought out, and all her dispersed children now gathered in with a most vivid sight, as it were, of His return from executing vengeance |
| 135. | Isaiah 63:7-19 and Isaiah 64, Notes on |
| The last section brought together at its beginning the Lord's first advent, at its end His second advent, with Jerusalem as the special object here contemplated in His earthly plans. We now enter on the closing part of this great and varied prophecy. There are two divisions in it. The |
| 136. | Isaiah 65, Notes on |
| This chapter begins the answer of Jehovah to the appeal of His people, in which He explains not only what is now an accomplished fact, but also what is still going on. "I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me |
| 137. | Isaiah 66, Notes on |
| The concluding chapter of our prophet pursues what was begun in chapter 65—the answer of Jehovah to the supplication which precedes them both. |
| 138. | Jesus as the God of Life |
| The great hindrance to our understanding the Old Testament scriptures is our putting ourselves into them. God's faithfulness, of course, is always true; but when the Spirit of prophecy comes to speak of the people, and state of the people, e.g., hiding the face from them, we know they do |
| 139. | Jesus Christ Come in the Flesh |
| The ark and the camp were, in some sense, necessary to each other during the journey through the wilderness. The ark, seated in the tabernacle on which the cloud rested, bad to guide the camp; and the camp, in its order, bad to accompany and guard the ark and all |
| 140. | Jesus Led of the Spirit |
| There is a subject of considerable interest in the earlier parts of the gospels, but more especially to be found in Luke, Mark, and Matthew, since these three display Christ in His human relationships as the devoted servant of God, or as the perfect man in the midst of |
| 141. | Jesus the Willing Captive |
| Two points attract and fill our hearts in this passage. First, the perfect willingness with which Christ gives Himself up, the unhesitating way in which He presents Himself to the armed band come out to seek Him, fully knowing what was to befall Him. " Jesus, therefore, knowing all |
| 142. | Jews, The |
| It has often been shown from Scripture, in this periodical, that the Jews are to be helped back to their own land in unbelief; that the plan will seem at first eminently successful; that they will have the temple once more in Jerusalem; but that the Antichrist will present himself |
| 143. | John 1 |
| This first chapter of John brings out all the various personal glories of Jesus, excepting Head of the Church and High Priest. He is the Word, Life, Light, Son of God, Lamb of God, Messiah, King of Israel, And Son of man. He is King of Israel, according to {vi |
| 144. | John 11, On |
| In this chapter we have an example of the way in which our hearts are often bound down by circumstances. We see too that while the Lord answers the cry of our hearts, He does not act in the way we expect, but according to His purpose, His object being |
| 145. | John 14 |
| This chapter is an answer to the distress of the hearts of the disciples, and in it we get two things set before them: first, the glory of Christ's person; and secondly, the coming of the Comforter. |
| 146. | John 17:17 and 19 |
| Remark, in John 17:17, 19 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17)
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. (John 17:19), two distinct characters and means or sources of sanctification, the difference of which is full of interest and instruction. Christ is the Word and the Truth (i.e., He expresses God and tells the truth of everything) as coming from God and revealing Him. The |
| 147. | John 21 |
| Alas! how the heart can spring up, when set at ease, after all manner of dealings with it. Peter, so humbled, so wonderfully restored by exhaustless grace, must know what shall happen to John. What ease! He loved John surely; and it served as occasion to revelation. Still the Lord |
| 148. | John 6, The Character of |
| The character of John 6 is important in connection with all in divine blessing as an entirely new thing. Not only is Christ that eternal life which was with the father, but the nourishment of this life is equally heavenly. He is the bread which came down from heaven—the |
| 149. | Judgment Seat of Christ |
| Q. (1.) Rev. 3:10 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10).—The promise here seems made to a particular class described as those who have kept the word of Christ's patience, and who appear to be contrasted with those who "dwell upon the earth," which, I presume, expresses a moral condition. If this be so, on what |
| 150. | Kingdom of Heaven and of God |
| Two sentences of two papers have been attacked with sufficient readiness to suspect evil. |
| 151. | Knowledge of Good and Evil, The |
| The loss of innocence closed evidently the simple enjoyment of blessing in thanksgiving. The knowledge of good and evil being come, God, in saying " the man is become as one of us," has declared that man, to be with God, must be with Him as suited to Himself as |
| 152. | Law, The |
| Not only does the law give no life, but it reveals no object. As being creatures, it suffices not that we have a nature capable of certain affections; we must have an object too, and which even forms them. God alone can create, but has no need of objects. Now, |
| 153. | Leviticus 25:1-25 |
| The ordinances of God in the old time of the law will be found, in their materials, to have been very homely, such as had to do with the commonest transactions of human life; and yet, in their meaning, to have disclosed or shadowed forth the deepest mysteries of Christ: |
| 154. | Living God and a Living People, A |
| A living God, to whom all praise and glory is due, and a living people to praise Him, might fitly be the titles of these two psalms. Psa. 115 speaks of the living God, and Psa. 116 of the living people. By whom they were written we are |
| 155. | Lord's Supper and the Breaking of Bread, The |
| Q. As a recent dissenting work on "Baptism, &c., by Typicus" (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder), ventures to impugn the application of the terms " breaking of bread" in Scripture to the Lord's Supper, will you notice his arguments or assertions briefly? |
| 156. | Love and Purpose in God's Revelations |
| There must be love and purpose in God's revelations and in revelations to man, that love and that purpose must refer to man, while it reveals God; and this the first of Genesis does admirably. It seems to me, as, indeed, I do not doubt it is, perfect in this |
| 157. | Love in 1 Corinthians 13 |
| 1 Cor. 13—Here love is spoken of only in its working in or toward man, though its spring be the divine nature, love itself in us, which has its supreme joy in God Himself. But here it is as in precept for its manifestation in man's ways. But note |
| 158. | Luke 1:1-4, Notes on |
| There is no gospel which more shows the mind and love of God than this of Luke. None is more truly and evidently inspired. Nevertheless there is none so deeply marked by traces of the human hand and heart. This is its characteristic object in presenting Christ to us. Luke |
| 159. | Luke 1:26-80, Notes on |
| It was the angel Gabriel who was sent to Daniel to make known of old the Messiah's coming and cutting off in the famous prophecy of the seventy weeks. Now he comes to Mary, the espoused of Joseph, and announces to her, " the virgin" of a still older prophet, |
| 160. | Luke 1:5-25, Notes on |
| That the Gospel of Luke has a special aspect towards men at large, that it displays the grace of God towards the Gentiles who had been so long forgotten, or seemed to be so in the outward dealings of God, is very plain. Nevertheless some have found, as they thought, |
| 161. | Luke 2:1-20, Notes on |
| We have had the forerunner of Jesus and the announcement of the birth of Jesus. But now this chapter opens with a providential event which we find nowhere else in the gospels, and yet which explains a fact that is found in the first gospel as well as in the |
| 162. | Luke 2:21-38, Notes on |
| We now see the Lord Jesus under the law of Moses, as in the earlier verses, born of woman. For " when eight days were accomplished for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the |
| 163. | Luke 2:39-52, Notes on |
| Turn was the full recognition of the law of the Lord, while the person of Jesus is brought before us with all evidence as the great manifestation of God's grace. This surprises some. They are apt to set law and grace in contradiction to each other. Now for this there |
| 164. | Luke 3:1-14, Notes on |
| The dates are given in Luke reckoning from the years of the Roman Empire. Judea is but a province of it, the Herods are in power. All this was a very humiliating and significant circumstance for Israel- impossible if the people had been faithful to God. But God does not |
| 165. | Luke 4:1-13, Notes on |
| Is none of the synoptic gospels has the temptation a weightier place than here. Matthew confronts the Messiah with the great enemy of God's people; and, giving the three closing acts just as they took place, reports them as they illustrate dispensation, and the great impending change, which is emphatically |
| 166. | Luke 4:14-29, Notes on |
| It is important to notice that the temptation in the wilderness preceded the active public life of the Lord, as Gethsemane preceded His death in atonement for our sins. It is an utterly false notion that this defeat of Satan in the wilderness was the basis of our redemption. Such, |
| 167. | Luke 4:30-44, Notes on |
| The result of the Lord's first appearance at Nazareth in the synagogue was that, though He Himself characterized His ministry from the word of God, or rather the Spirit of God had already anticipated it as He then openly proclaimed it, as being the ministry of grace, by reading |
| 168. | Luke 5:1-11, Notes on |
| It will be remarked that the account of the call of Simon and of the rest of his companions, at the lake of Gennesaret, is given not only more fully in Luke than in any other evangelist but in a totally different connection. In Matthew and Mark we find it |
| 169. | Mark 10:46-52, Remarks on |
| A new division of our gospel here opens. It is the Lord's final presentation of Himself to the nation as Messiah. His ministerial work was closed. Hero He is viewed as Son of David. |
| 170. | Mark 11:1-14, Remarks on |
| The Savior now proceeds on His last journey to Jerusalem, His final presentation of Himself, as far as testimony went, as the Messiah. His prophetic task bad been accomplished and refused; the great work of atonement lay yet before Him. Between the two comes His royal progress, we may call |
| 171. | Mark 11:15-33, Remarks on |
| After hearing the doom of the barren fig-tree, they come to Jerusalem and enter the temple, whence the Lord began to cast out those who sold and bought therein, overthrowing the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the dove-sellers, and suffering none to carry a vessel through the |
| 172. | Mark 12:1-17, Remarks on |
| The parable with which this chapter opens, sets forth in a few plain words, and in highly pregnant touches, the moral history of Israel as under the dealings of God. In what follows we have the various classes of Israel successively exposing themselves, while they were attempting to perplex the |
| 173. | Mark 12:18-44, Remarks on |
| "Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked, him saving, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his |
| 174. | Mark 13, Remarks on |
| In the succinct account which Mark gives us of the prophetic discourse of our Lord on the Mount of Olives, and of the questions that led to it, we have the favored hearers specified more particularly than elsewhere: Peter, James, John, and Andrew. Mark is characterized by this minuteness of |
| 175. | Mark 14:1-25, Remarks on |
| We have here a supper at Bethany and a supper at Jerusalem: one of them simply a supper in the house of those whom Jesus loved; the other a new thing instituted at the paschal feast which it was to set aside, while for the Church it was to be |
| 176. | Mark 14:26-73, Remarks on |
| The Lord now warns the disciples not only of what was about to befall Him, but how it would affect them. " All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered." The cross has |
| 177. | Mark 15:1-26, Remarks on |
| Nagy follows the consultation in the morning, after the Lord had been already condemned " to be guilty of death." The result is that the chief priests, the elders, the scribes, the whole council, and indeed the whole people consenting, agreed to deliver Jesus to Pilate, the representative of the |
| 178. | Mark 15:27-47, Remarks on |
| Mark, like Matthew, mentions the thieves (indeed all do) as a testimony to the complete humiliation of God's servant and Son on the cross. Men would not even give Him that place singularly. He was indeed alone in the grace and moral glory of the cross; but to increase the |
| 179. | Mark 16, Remarks on |
| The resurrection not only witnesses the power of death overcome and the perfect condition of man before God, suitable to heaven, but, as regards things here below, it is for him that believes the true solvent of all difficulties. Jesus never was vindicated thoroughly till the resurrection. There was, of |
| 180. | Mark 4:1-34 |
| God, sooner or later, will have all manifested, all things and all persons. Again and again, this is declared. This thought, I may say, pervades scripture. |
| 181. | Mark 4:14-29, On |
| As the Gospel of Mark gives us the character of the Lord Jesus as the servant of God, so likewise do we find the service of Christ coming out in a most remarkable way. For in every act the divine glory of Christ stands out in virtue of and by |
| 182. | Matthew 11 |
| In Matt. 11 we have this character of grace that Christ invites to Himself, not only when sin was there and the law broken, but when the warning testimony had been given and, as far as man's heart went, rejected. They must now come and find goodness in Him, |
| 183. | Matthew 27:51-52 |
| In Matt. 27:51, 52 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, (Matthew 27:51-52), we have the double power and effect of Christ's death, the rent veil or access to God, and the resurrection. |
| 184. | Moses, Earlier Days of |
| There are two scenes in the early life of Moses which may afford us profitable admonition. |
| 185. | Mysticism, On: Letter 1 |
| Letter I. |
| 186. | Mysticism, On: Letter 2 |
| You are beginning in a measure, I suppose, that life of activity which makes a life of reflection to become more hidden than before. It is a very real advance in christian life. I liked divine philosophy; it is always to my taste. As long as it shows itself, and |
| 187. | Nicodemus, the Samaritan, the People, the Jews |
| (John 3-8.) |
| 188. | Notice: Reprint of "The Sufferings of Christ" |
| The Sufferings of Christ; reprinted from the " Bible Treasury," 1858-9 And A Man in Christ; reprinted from the " Girdle of Truth," 1858. Second edition, with an introduction and notes. London; George Morrish, 24, Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, B.C. |
| 189. | Patriarchal Longevity and the Deluge |
| The rationalist objects to the long lives of the patriarchs, but he does not say why. Nor is there any reason why a man should not be constituted to live nine hundred as well as seventy years. It is a question of the sovereign power of God, on which mere |
| 190. | Paul With the Romans and at Rome |
| After a long, wearisome, and changeful journey, through chapters 21-28 of Acts, during a period of two long years, for which time he had not seen any brethren, the apostle at last finds himself approaching Rome. (Chap. 28:13-15.) He had, some time before, written to the saints there, expressing his |
| 191. | Paul's Doctrine |
| Is There Ever a Time When It Is of No Practical Value? (Col. 1; 2 Tim. 3) |
| 192. | Philippians 3:9-10 |
| Phil. 3:9, 10 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; (Philippians 3:9-10) are different in this: verse 9 looks to having Christ in glory, to be found in Him before God, accepted and glorified; verse 10 is what was wanted of Christ for down here. This is what answers in the path to the place of verse 9 |
| 193. | Pilgrimage, Priesthood, and Suffering, Our |
| (1 Peter 2) |
| 194. | Place of Faith, the Work of Faith, and the Present Reward of Faith, The |
| (Heb. 6) |
| 195. | Pool of Bethesda |
| Ordinances and ministry witnessed mercy, but the Son dispenses it in His own way: no delay, no rivalry, no fear, or doubt, but " wilt thou be made whole?" It was Galatianism to pray about Bethesda after Christ had been in Jerusalem. Such is plentiful still. It is always a |
| 196. | Popery - Christ and Unity |
| 1 Cor. 14:16 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? (1 Corinthians 14:16) is a positive proof of what is indeed very clear in other' passages—that " blessing" means giving thanks. The two words are used for the same act elsewhere. (comp. Matt. 14; 15, Luke 9, John 6) Here they are positively identified. |
| 197. | Preaching, A Thought on |
| It must be a subject of deep interest to the laborer for God to ascertain the divine method of drawing souls after Christ. We all understand what is commonly meant by influence, and nothing oftentimes is more dangerous than personal influence; for, led on by it, fascinated by the individual |
| 198. | Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, Thoughts on the |
| Thoughts on the Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Church |
| 199. | Printed |
| Printed by George Morrisli, 24, Warwick Lane, Rafliitono‘Ter Sow, C.C |
| 200. | Prophecy, On |
| There are two distinct parts in prophecy: the prophecies addressed to the people of God during the time they are owned of Him, and those which refer to that people when they are not thus owned. In the first case, the prophecy appeals to the conscience of the people; in |
| 201. | Prospect and Retrospect |
| How different oftentimes is the anticipation from the result! Conjuring up bright visions of the future, man looks forward with eagerness to what fades away as he approaches it, like the mirage of the desert; or, if the event expected really happens, the reality falls far short of the conception. |
| 202. | Proverbs 1-2, Practical Reflections on |
| The Proverbs refer us directly to the government of God on the earth, more entirely, because they are less prophetic, than even the psalms. Prophecy, referring to Christ and the remnant, necessarily looked to His rejection and that of some of them from the earth, and hence, though dimly, brought |
| 203. | Proverbs 3-4, Practical Reflections on |
| The first two chapters of Proverbs complete, as a kind of preface, the exposition of the subject—the true wisdom which keeps from the different forms of evil in this world, from what sin has brought in. The last verses of the second chapter spew that it relates to God's government |
| 204. | Proverbs 4, Practical Reflections on |
| We have something more than the affection of the heart for that which is come from God, and in this way of affectionate instruction, that is, keeping the words of this instruction, retaining the commandments of parental wisdom, and living. There is something very striking in the likeness of the |
| 205. | Proverbs 5, Practical Reflections on |
| The fifth chapter takes up the question of purity in our ways, as that of violence had been already spoken of. We have divinely ordered relationships and affections, instead of lusts and self-gratification in sin. How great the difference! Nothing degrades the heart and understanding like corrupt lusts. No doubt |
| 206. | Proverbs 6, Practical Reflections on |
| Two great principles of life are stated in the beginning of this chapter: not to engage oneself for the future, and not to be lazy and indolent for the present. God has set us in this place, bumble diligence as a duty now—His ordinance since the fall. " In the |
| 207. | Psalm 102 |
| A wonderful psalm is this which has for its subject the intercourse held between the Messiah, our Lord, and God. It tells us what occupied His heart in view of being cut off and having nothing, according to the prediction of Dan. 9:26 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Daniel 9:26), even the visitation of Zion by |
| 208. | Psalm 17 |
| This and Psa. 16 give us two great principles of divine life-trust and conscious righteousness. We find them running all through the psalms, and any godly person's life, as well as that of the Jew. But it is worthy of remark that it does not give the foundation fully |
| 209. | Psalm 40 |
| There are some special Psalms connected with Christ, round which others seem clustered. This is one of them. |
| 210. | Psalm 42-43 |
| No one who reads these two Psalms with any attention can fail to see the close connection between them. The expression of Psa. 42:6, 11; 43:5 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. (Psalm 42:6)
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psalm 42:11)
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psalm 43:5) shows that. The soul is cast down, but the godly one would encourage himself with the assurance that he shall yet praise God. |
| 211. | Psalm 68, A Note on |
| This Psalm celebrates the intervention of God. Jehovah-Adonai, on behalf of His earthly people, " God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered, and they that hate him shall flee before him." Moses could ask God to do this when the ark of the Lord was lifted up for each |
| 212. | Psalm 72 |
| The second book, of which our Psalm is the last, closes with the blessing of the whole earth: " The prayers of David are ended." It supposes and treats of the relationship of God with Judah just at the end of the age when forced to flee. The third book |
| 213. | Psalms and Christ, The |
| In the Psalms we get the Christ we are associated with, but not our association with Him. |
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| 230. | Reconciliation, On |
| Reconciliation is, to use familiar language, making all straight; and even primarily, I believe, used in money-changing as that which makes the sum even, so that there is satisfaction of the parties in the matter; and thence passing into the more ordinary sense of making all smooth between alienated parties, |
| 231. | Revelation 10-11, Thoughts on |
| This chapter, with the next, forms a break in the book. We see in it the claims of Christ, the Firstbegotten, to take the inheritance of all things in the earth and sea. His standing with one foot upon the earth, and the other on the sea, is descriptive of |
| 232. | Revelation 8 |
| In Rev. 8 all parts of orderly existence typified by nature are smitten—trees, grass, sea, rivers, fountains, sun, moon, and stars: all symbols, but the course of nature in the prophetic world. |
| 233. | Revelation 9 |
| Is not Rev. 9 correlative with chapter 7? The locusts hurt those not sealed (in the east rather), the horsemen those not faithful among Gentiles (only the latter is more limited; it is the third part of men, or prophetic Roman earth). |
| 234. | Revelation, Suggestions on the |
| I do not believe that we are, at this time, competent to speak particularly of these chapters, and it is rather, therefore, as suggestion than interpretation that I offer these thoughts. |
| 235. | Righteousness, Thoughts on |
| It is evident there are two aspects of righteousness—justice as against evil, and adequate appreciation and even recompense of good. " Vengeance is mine; I will recompense, smith the Lord," is a different thing from " the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance beholdeth the upright," though both are abstractedly |
| 236. | Romans 1:1-7, Notes on |
| It was ordered in the wisdom of God that no apostle should plant the gospel in the imperial city. Rome cannot boast truthfully of a church apostolic in its origin, like Jerusalem, Philippi, Corinth, Ephesus, and many more less considerable. We know that on the day of Pentecost, when the |
| 237. | Romans 1:17, Notes on |
| THIS verse is so important in itself, of so large a bearing on the epistle as well as the doctrine of the gospel elsewhere, and withal so perplexed by the conflicting thoughts even of true believers, not to speak of theologians of all schools, that it demands and will surely |
| 238. | Romans 1:18, Notes on |
| The apostle next proceeds to chew what it was that made the gospel so necessary to man and so suitable to God. The gospel is God's power to salvation, and so a revelation of His righteousness, ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν. |
| 239. | Romans 1:19-23, Notes on |
| The apostle next proceeds to set forth the proofs of the guilt of men because of which the wrath of God awaits them. And first he takes up impiety, or the evil which characterized the vast majority of the world, as later on he addresses himself to that subtler iniquity |
| 240. | Romans 1:24-32, Notes on |
| The consequence of idolatry is invariably under the moral judgment of God utter uncleanness among its votaries; and this in all its varieties but perhaps most conspicuously, as a divine retribution, among those who set up the human form,—" corruptible man,"—though it was certainly not wanting where they worshipped that |
| 241. | Romans 1:8-16, Notes on |
| Take any part of the Old Testament and compare it with these opening words. How evident and immense the difference, aim, character, and scope! One may well wonder this never occurred to those who would assimilate the testimony of God and state of man before and after the coming of |
| 242. | Romans 2:17-29, Notes on |
| The apostle now advances another step in his appeal to conscience. He addresses himself next to the Jew, not classing him with the Gentile alone. Did the Jew value himself on his singular place among men, on his possession of a divine revelation, on the true God as his God, |
| 243. | Romans 2:9-16, Notes on |
| In the next verse the apostle for the first time points directly at the Jew, no less than the Gentile, as obnoxious to divine judgment. We have seen with what consideration he approaches this subject, which, once cleared, is to hold so prominent a place in the epistle. In |
| 244. | Romans 3:1-20, Notes on |
| The apostle's statement at the end of chapter 2: had laid down. With irresistible force for the conscience that God. will have reality rather than forth. Let the,Jew then beware:. This gives occasion to objections which are met in the earlier part 'of chapter iii. 1-8. |
| 245. | Romans 3:21-31, Notes on |
| Hitherto it has been for the most part negative statement or argument. The proof is complete that the Jew has righteousness for God no more than the Gentile, whom no Jew could doubt to be hopelessly ruined in sin, as indeed the state of the heathen, before the gospel testimony |
| 246. | Romans, Outline of |
| Dear Brother,—I send you a brief outline of the order followed by the Epistle to the Romans in treating the principal subject it presents. This exposition of the order of the epistle necessarily implies a development of its doctrine on the subject of our justification and of our standing before |
| 247. | Ruth's History |
| Ruth's history illustrates the life of faith, as Abraham's does, in parts and parcels. Ruth allied herself with the poverty of Naomi and with the wealth of Boaz. This is faith. It knows Jesus in rejection on earth, in all dignity and acceptableness in heaven. It adopts both as its |
| 248. | Satan Loosed for a Little Season, the Great White Throne, and the E |
| 8—Satan Loosed for a Little Season, the Great White Throne, and the Eternal State |
| 249. | Scripture Queries and Answers |
| Q. What is the duty of a surviving Christian parent, guardian, or child, if the law of the country decide that the child is to be brought up after a religious sort opposed to the faith of both parent and child? |
| 250. | Scripture Queries and Answers |
| Q. Will the saints be caught up before the Lord comes in glory and the tribes of the earth mourn because of Him? |
| 251. | Scripture Queries and Answers |
| Q. 1. Do not the best readings give an entirely different meaning to Rev. 5:9, 10 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:9-10), from that represented by the Authorized Version? and how then can it be proved that the Church is in heaven when the judgments are poured upon the earth? By 'judgments' is to be |
| 252. | Scripture Queries and Answers: 1 Peter 3:18-20 |
| Q. What is the true force of 1 Peter 3:18-20 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. (1 Peter 3:18-20), which some apply to Christ's descent after death and personal preaching to the souls in hades? J. T. |
| 253. | Scripture Queries and Answers: 2 Peter 1:19 |
| Q. 2 Peter 1:19 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: (2 Peter 1:19).—What is the bearing of this difficult scripture? The distinction drawn in the recent " Lectures on Christ's Second Coming" (Broom), between the dimness of the λύχνος and the brightness of the φωσφόπος, is undeniable; also the one being clearly objective or external to |
| 254. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Apocalyptic Beasts |
| The Apocalyptic Beasts. |
| 255. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Difference Between Saints and Believers |
| Q. 2 Thess. 1:10 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. (2 Thessalonians 1:10). What is the difference of saints and believers? and why is the Lord to be glorified in the one and admired in the other? I have asked a good many, and all see the difficulty: if you could throw a little |
| 256. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Dispensational Teachings |
| Q. 1. What is the dispensational difference between the two disciples of John (John 1:37 37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. (John 1:37)), Philip (ver. 43), Nathanael (ver. 45), and Nicodemus? (Chap. 3:1.) |
| 257. | Scripture Queries and Answers: How to Look for and Love His Appearing |
| Q. If the Church is with the Lord, caught up to Him at His coming, how can any Christian love or look for His subsequent appearing? 1 Tim. 6:14 14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: (1 Timothy 6:14); 2 Tim. 4:88 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2 Timothy 4:8); Titus 2:1313 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Titus 2:13). So 1 Thess. 2:19; 5:2319 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? (1 Thessalonians 2:19)
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:23) seem to teach, not a secret previous |
| 258. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Kingdom of Heaven Vs. Kingdom of God |
| Q. Will you define " kingdom of heaven" in itself, and in contradistinction from " kingdom of God?" J. D. |
| 259. | Scripture Queries and Answers: New Birth |
| Q. What is the bearing of the new birth in John 3:3-6, as compared with eternal life (ver. 15, 16, &c.)? What of the washing of regeneration and renewing• of the Holy Ghost in Titus 3? of the renewing in Eph. 4, Col. 3, and of |
| 260. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Question on Greek |
| Q. What is the difference between παλαιός and ἀρχαῖος? and how do they stand in relation to νεός and καινός? |
| 261. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Revelation 4, 6 and 12 |
| Rev. 4; 6:12 |
| 262. | Self-Judgment |
| Christ suffered from God because of His faithfulness to man, as He suffered from man because of his faithfulness to God. But this leaves open scripture-proof of any transitional suffering, distinct from either and between the two. |
| 263. | Sorrows and Christ, Our |
| Never a sorrow, a shame, or a difficulty, but we may connect all with Christ by the grace of god—through the cross, of course. |
| 264. | Spirit of Christ and of Him That Raised |
| Q. Rom. 8:9, 10 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (Romans 8:9-10). What is the special teaching of this part of the epistle? Could Old Testament saints be said to be not in the flesh but in the Spirit? If not, why not? What is the meaning of " the Spirit of Christ?" and why the different |
| 265. | Sufferings of Christ |
| (*From " Observations by J. N. Darby on a tract entitled ' Remarks, by B. W. N.,' London, 1847." These extracts will furnish evidence to many who have not this tract, how far they can trust the candor or the competency of some who, having read it, have not scrupled |
| 266. | Sufferings of Christ |
| Self-judgment by grace always tends to promote humility and love. The man who has passed through such an exercise as to the beam in his own eye will be able to act the more tenderly in casting the mote out of his brother's eye. |
| 267. | That Which Was From the Beginning |
| 1 John 2. Christ is not only a mediator with God, but an Advocate or Patron with the Father. That is, He restores communion, fellowship with the Father when practically lost. His advocacy is founded on two things: on propitiation for our sins, so that He pleads in grace |
| 268. | Throne of God and the Son of Man, The |
| It is important to distinguish between the ways of God in government on this earth, whilst nations and peoples are living upon it, in all the busy activities of human enterprise; and the judgment after death, which awaits mankind, when " small and great, stand before God, and the books |
| 269. | To Correspondents |
| The "Distressed One" writes, unfeignedly owning his mistake, and feeling that he wants further light. |
| 270. | To Correspondents |
| The Editor is not able to inform C. B. C. who published the life of Mdme. de K., alluded to in the last Number of the "Bible Treasury," but probably any intelligent Swiss or French Protestant bookseller knows the book. |
| 271. | To Correspondents: He Endured the Forsaking of God for Sin |
| " One really distressed" does not understand the meaning of that which is in question. The uniform doctrine of the papers on the "sufferings of Christ" (which appeared in these pages in 1858, since then reprinted exactly) is that the smiting of Christ actually took place only on the cross. |
| 272. | To Correspondents: The Smiting of Christ |
| Cannot " One still distressed" understand the statement that our Lord both anticipated the smiting, and that it actually came on the cross; and that neither one nor other is in Scripture used for atonement, but rather for His humiliation and rejection in which atonement was wrought? There was anticipation |
| 273. | To Correspondents: University Education |
| A. B. may be assured that the course of education pursued in every university is highly objectionable. The classics are bad enough as the effusion of heathen mind; but the books of the day on metaphysics, logic, ancient history, and physical science, not to speak of theology, are even worse, |
| 274. | Trinity, A Few Words on the |
| The application of numerals to divine or any moral being is absurd. We do not mean the same thing by unity in figure and in minds. But I deny that God was, or ever could be, fully revealed as one. He is one; but He never was revealed as |
| 275. | Truth and Error |
| There is no equality in an alliance between truth and error; since, by this very alliance, truth ceases to be truth, and error does not thereby become truth. The only thing lost is the authority and obligation of the truth. |
| 276. | Vine, The |
| The vine, as the symbol of a fruit-bearing system on the earth, is used in a remarkable manner, and runs through a large body of Scripture. We read in Psa. 80:8 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. (Psalm 80:8), that the nation of Israel is likened to a vine which the Lord brought out of Egypt, casting |
| 277. | Ways of God, The: 7. the Glory or Kingdom |
| The short period of universal judgment which we have been considering cleanses the sphere of the kingdom from everything which offends, and them which do iniquity: and ends in the coming of the Son of man Himself with power and great glory, to execute the last blow of judgment; and |
| 278. | Well of Springing Water, A |
| Every reader of the scripture knows, and every child of God accepts, the great cardinal principle announced in the Epistle to the Hebrews, without faith it is impossible to please God." And each one acquainted with the gospels will remember the words, "if ye had faith as a grain |
| 279. | What the Grace of God Does |
| It is the nature of the grace of God, not merely to be gracious, but to produce abundant blessings toward, and in, and for, those for whom it is active and works. |
| 280. | Why Should We Think We Possess a Perfect Mind? |
| Why am I to think we are arrived, just in our day, at the perfection of the human mind, so that we are exactly right now? The age in which Christianity was introduced or made progress among the gentiles, was very far from a superstitious age. Witness the various forms |
| 281. | Woollen and Linen |
| "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together."—Deut. 22:11 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. (Deuteronomy 22:11). |
| 282. | Woollen and Linen |
| "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together."—Deut. 22:11 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. (Deuteronomy 22:11). |
| 283. | Woollen and Linen |
| "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together."- Deut. 22:11 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. (Deuteronomy 22:11). |