The Everliving Intercessor - 1846
Preached in the Baptist Chapel, Bedworth, on Wednesday Evening, April 1, 1846
"Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25
We have reason to bless God for the Epistle to the Hebrews, for it so unfolds the Levitical dispensation, and casts such a ...read
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The Everliving Intercessor - 1866
Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on Lord's Day Evening, July 15, 1866
"Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25
There are two questions which deeply interest every one who is made alive unto God by regenerating grace. The first ...read
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The Exercise and Profit of Godliness
Preached at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 21, 1850
"Exercise thyself unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." 1 Tim. 4:7, 8
Man has been called, and perhaps with some truth, a rel ...read
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The Faith and Confession of a Pilgrim
Preached at Jewry Street Chapel, Aldgate, for the Aged Pilgrims' Friend Society, on Tuesday Evening, August 13, 1844
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such thin ...read
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The Faith and Confession, Life and Death of a Pilgrim
Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on Lord's Day Evening, July 29, 1866
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a cou ...read
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The Faith and Cry of the Destitute
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Behalf of the Aged Pilgrims Friend Society, on Thursday Evening, July 24, 1845
"But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord; in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute." Psa. 141:8
There are times and seasons when the language of praise is most seasonable and suitable for a living sou ...read
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The Falling Rain and the Budding Earth
Preached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, London, on Lord's Day Evening, July 29, 1849
"For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: ...read
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The Farewell
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Thursday Evening, August 10, 1843
"Brethren, farewell." 2 Corinthians 13:11
I cannot say that Anniversary, Funeral, or Farewell Sermons are much to my taste; and whenever I have attempted to preach with a view to such occasions, it is but rarely that I have had any liberty of soul or of spe ...read
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The Feet of the Saints Kept
Preached at Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, on Thursday Evening, July 31, 1845
"He will keep the feet of his saints." 1 Samuel 2:9
The person that uttered these words knew their meaning spiritually and experimentally--the only way whereby divine truth can be known. I need scarcely observe, that they were uttered by that deeply taught an ...read
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The Fiery Trial
Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on Lord's Day Evening, July 9, 1865
"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though come strange thing happened unto you; but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. ...read
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The First Fruits of the Spirit
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Morning, January 10, 1858 (A Posthumous Sermon.)
"And not only they but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Rom. 8:23
In the preceding verse the Apostle has told ...read
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The Fool: His Character, Affliction, and Deliverance
Preached at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 27, 1851
"Fools, because of their transgression, 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 out of their distress ...read
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The Fruit of the Lips
Preached 20th August, 1843 at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London
"I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him" Isa.57:19
The Lord had said in verse 16 of this chapter: "I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail ...read
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The Fruitful Bough and the Strong Bow
Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on Lord's Day Evening, July 27th, 1856
"Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God ...read
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The Fruits and Marks of the Lord Being Our God
Preached at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London, on Tuesday Evening, July 10, 1849
"I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go." Isaiah 48:17
God has a peculiar people. We may believe it or we may believe it not; our faith or our unbelief does not alter the solemn fact. That stan ...read
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The Fruits of a Living Religion
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Thursday Evening, November 11, 1858 (A Posthumous Sermon.)
"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of r ...read
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The Fruits of Sin and the Fruits of Holiness
Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on Lord's Day Morning, July 25, 1869 (A Posthumous Sermon)
"What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of ...read
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The Gift of Redemption and the Grace of Adoption
Preached on Lord's Day Morning, December 6th, 1846, at Oakham
"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." Galatians 4:4, 5
There is a striking resemblance, what is called an analogy, between the two d ...read
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The Glory of Zion Her Sure Defence
Preached at Providence Chapel, Oakham on Tuesday Evening, September 30th, 1845
"And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from ...read
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The Going Forth of the Lord Prepared as the Morning
Preached on Lord's Day Afternoon, September 19th, 1841, at Allington, near Devizes
"Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hosea 6:3
Before I enter into the spiritual meaning of these words, it will be ...read
J.C. Philpot