The Conqueror's Inheritance
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Lord's Day Evening, July 6th, 1845
"He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son." Revelation 21:7
The Scriptures, describing the path of the Christian, represent it under various figures, but all implying opposition to the path he takes. For in ...read
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The Conversation, Mind, and Spirit of the Gospel of Christ
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Evening, Sept. 22, 1867
"Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel." Philippians 1:27
Hav ...read
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The Cry of Jonah out of the Belly of Hell
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 16, 1843.
"Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple." Jonah 2:4
It is a great mercy for God's people that the account which the Holy Ghost has given of the saints in the Scripture is very different from the opinions which ...read
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The Day in Which a Man Looks to his Maker
Preached on Lord's Day Morning, October 16th, 1842, at Trinity Chapel, Alfred Street, Leicester
"At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel." Isaiah 17:7
We are very much, I think, in the dark as to the historical interpretation of the prophecies of the Old Testament. We are so little ac ...read
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The Day of Power
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Allie Street, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 7, 1844
"And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." Isaiah ...read
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The Day Spring from on High - 1845
Preached on Sunday Morning, July 13, 1845, at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London
"Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us; to give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace." Luke 1:78, 79
Unbelief is a damning sin where it reigns; ...read
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The Dayspring from on High - 1858
PREFACE
When the following sermon was preached by me at Zoar Chapel. Great Alie Street. London, I had not received the slightest previous intimation that there was an intention to take it down from my lips, and put it into a more permanent form than as it issued with fleeting breath. When however, I learnt that it had been taken down, I did not ...read
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The Death of the Flesh the Life of the Spirit
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Thursday Evening, July 25, 1844
"O Lord, by these things men live; and in all these things is the life of my spirit." Isaiah 38:16
The words I have just read, some of you may remember, are a part of "the writing" that King Hezekiah penned after "he was recovered of that sickness" which Isai ...read
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The Deliverance of the Fool from His Destruction
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Afternoon, November 28, 1858
(A Posthumous Sermon.)
"Fools because of their transgressions, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them ...read
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The Destruction through Death of Him Who Had the Power of Death
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Afternoon, June 13, 1858
"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; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifet ...read
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The Divine Giver of Grace and Glory
Preached at Oakham, Rutland, on Lord's Day Afternoon, July 9th, 1854
"For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in Thee." Psalm 84:11, 12
What a pure language, as recorded in the Scriptures, the saints ...read
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The Doctrine Which Drops as the Rain, and the Speech which Distils as the Dew
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day morning, Oct. 18, 1857
"My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." Deuteronomy 32:2
Forty years were the children of Israel sentenced to wander in the wilderness as a justly deserved pu ...read
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The Dropping Down of the Heavens, and the Opening of the Earth
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 21, 1844
"Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it." Isaiah 45:8
In revealing the Scriptures God has see ...read
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The Eagle and Her Young
Preached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, London, On Tuesday Evening, August 5, 1851
"He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them ...read
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The Earnest Contention for Living Faith
Preached at the Opening of Trinity Chapel, Alfred Street, Leicester. on the Morning of December 25, 1840
"That ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." Jude 1:3
We often read in books the praises of primitive Christianity, and there seems to be a general persuasion in the minds of men that primitive C ...read
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The End of the Commandment
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Thursday Evening, December 9, 1858 (A Posthumous Sermon)
"Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned." 1 Tim. 1:5
I have thought sometimes it was a great pity that our excellent translators, who were not only very learned, but, we ...read
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The End of the Earth, and the Rock of Ages
Preached at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 4, 1847
"From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I." Psalm 61:2
Is there such a thing as Christian experience? Every God-taught soul will in a moment answer, 'Yes, there is; and I hope I h ...read
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The Entrance of Light
Preached on Lord's Day morning, July 11, 1841, at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, Whitechapel
"The entrance of they words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." Psalm 119:130
There is a very striking analogy between the first or natural creation, when God first spoke this world into being, and the second or supernatural creatio ...read
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The Eternal God the Refuge of His Saints
Preached at Providence Chapel, Oakham, on Sunday Morning, September 29, 1867
"The eternal Goal is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them." Deuteronomy 33:27
It is very beautiful as well as very interesting to observe and trace out, in the record of the ...read
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The Eternal Refuge
Preached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, London, On Lord's Day Evening, August 13, 1843
"The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee: and shall say. Destroy them." Deuteronomy 33:27
We were considering this morning, a passage (Ex. 33:16), which came from the l ...read
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