SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE WORD OF GOD. The Scriptures from God. 2 Tim. 3: 16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. The Scriptures the Light of the Ps. 119: 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my The Scriptures suited to the Wants of Man. Ps. 119: 105. MCILVAINE'S COL. The Excellency and Glory of the Gospel. Eph. 3: 18, 19. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. SAURIN. The Sufficiency of Revelation. Luke 16: 29. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. GRIFFIN. The Value of the Gospel. Luke 7: 22. To the poor the gospel is preached. G. SPRING. Internal Evidences of Revelation. Ps. 138: 2. For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. A. GREEN. The Efficacy of Divine Truth. Ps. 119: 130. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. A. DICKINSON. Right Use of the Scriptures. John 5: 39. Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me. PRES. DWIGHT. Life and Immortality revealed in the Gospel. 2 Tim. 1: 12. Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. CHALMERS. The Power of the Gospel to dissolve the Enmity of the Heart against God. Rom. 8: 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. CHALMERS. The Union of Truth and Mercy in SIMEON. the Gospel. Ps. 85: 10. Mercy and truth are met together. The Change wrought by the Gospel. Isa. 55: 12, 13. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. SIMEON. Frailty of Man and Immutability of the Gospel. Isa. 40: 6-8. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the Spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever. SIMEON. The Spirituality of the Law. Rom. 7:7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. SIMEON. SIMEON. SIMEON. The Scriptures recommended. The Use and Benefit of the Scriptures. Ps. 19: 10, 11. More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. The Law and the Gospel conjointly Sustained. Mat. 5: 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. SMALLEY. The Mildness of the Laws of Christ. Mat. 11: 30. For my yoke is burden is light. LATHROP. Perspicuity of the Scriptures. 2 Cor. 3: 12. We use great plainness of speech. PRES. DWIGHT. Those who believe not the Scriptures would not be persuaded though one rose from the Dead. Luke 16:31. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. BEECHER. The Bible a Code of Laws. ROBBINS. The Spirit of the Bible. Ps. 119: 156. Quicken me according to thy judgments. |