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To wean you from a poor, unsatisfying world

(Octavius Winslow, "The Divine Attributes Entwining
 Around the Tempted and Trembling Believer")

Reader, are you a child of sorrow?

Jesus is with His people at all times, in all places,
and under all circumstances. Consoling thought!

He is "God with us." He is with us . . .
  to comfort us in the hour of sorrow,
  to enlighten us in the hour of darkness,
  to guide us in the hour of doubt and perplexity,
  to deliver us in the time of conflict,
  to support us in the hour of death.

O for faith to realize this!

He was with His three faithful servants in the fiery furnace.
He was with Daniel in the lions' den.
He was with Jacob in his wrestlings at Bethel.
He was with John in his exile at Patmos.

Jesus is, at all times, in all places, and under
all circumstances--with His dear people.

Perhaps you are a son or a daughter of affliction.
You may now be passing through the furnace;
you may now be draining adversity's bitter cup;
the rod of the covenant may be heavy upon you:
  friends unkind,
  the world empty,
  every thing earthly failing,
  faith weak,
  corruptions strong.

Is it so?

Still is your omnipresent Jesus with you!

Do not be cast down! This furnace is but to consume
the tin and burnish the gold; this cup of suffering is but
to work your inward good; these painful dispensations,
by which you are learning the changeableness of every
thing earthly, are but to wean you from a poor,
unsatisfying world--and to draw you near and yet
nearer to Jesus.

Then be of good cheer, for He has promised never
to leave or forsake you. So that you may boldly say,
"The Lord is my helper!"

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Your beauty, strength, and fine attire

(Ebenezer Erskine, "The groans of believers under their burdens")

Their great concern of the worldling is about this clay tabernacle--
how to gratify it, how to beautify and adorn it. Their language is,
"Who will show us any good? What shall we eat? What shall we
drink? How shall we be clothed?" But they have no thought or
concern about the immortal soul which inhabits the body, which
must be happy or miserable forever. O, sirs! Remember, that
whatever care you take about this clay tabernacle, it will drop
down to dust before long, and the abhorrent grave will be its
habitation, where worms and corruption will prey upon the
fairest face and purest complexion. Where will be your beauty,
strength, and fine attire, when the curtains of the grave are
drawn about you?

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Distress in heaven?

(James, "The Christian Father's Present to His Children" 1825)

Will it cause distress in heaven, to know that our
unsaved beloved friends and relatives are forever lost?

The only way of solving this difficulty, is to realize that a
perfect knowledge of God, and of the wisdom and justice
of all His designs and operations, will constitute a chief
part of the happiness of heaven. We shall be . . .
  so convinced of the equity of His dealings towards the wicked,
  so divested of all the weakness of 'human sentimentalism',
  so absorbed in the love of what is right and just,
that the absence of our loved ones from the world of
glory, will cause no interruption of our heavenly bliss!

This, I acknowledge, is now hard to conceive. The day shall
reveal it. "Now we know in part and we prophesy in part, but
when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." 1 Cor. 13:9-10

After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great
multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah! Salvation and
glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are His
judgments!" And again they shouted: "Hallelujah! The smoke
from her goes up for ever and ever!" Revelation 19:1-3.

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Heaven!

(from Octavius Winslow's "Solitude Sweetened")

'Companionship of God' is the highest,
purest, sweetest mercy a saint of God
can have on earth!

Yes, it is the highest, purest, sweetest bliss
the saints of God can have in Heaven! What is
the enjoyment of Heaven? Not merely exemption
from trial, and freedom from sorrow, and rest
from toil, and release from conflict. O no! it is
the presence; the full, unclouded presence of
our Father there!

To be with Christ;
to behold his glory;
to gaze upon his face;
to hear his voice;
to feel the throbbings of his bosom;
to bask in the effulgence of God's presence;
O this is Heaven, the Heaven of Heaven!

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That one majestic, inconceivable,
and expressive word

(J. A. James, "The Death of Mrs. Sherman" May 28, 1848)

"And this is the promise that He Himself made to us:
 eternal life." (1 John 2:25)

In the infinite comprehensiveness of this one promise are
included all that the omniscient mind of the Father in the
exercise of His love has contrived in eternity; all that the
incarnate Son has obtained by His sacrifice upon the cross;
and all that the Divine Spirit has revealed upon the page of
Scripture; and all which is contained in that one majestic,
inconceivable, and expressive word—HEAVEN!

I do not need flamboyant descriptions and eloquent
representations of the celestial state, to raise my desires
and hopes. It is enough to know that it is GLORY, first
prepared, then promised, and ultimately bestowed by
Jehovah—as the concentration of His infinite beneficence
and the full manifestation of His boundless benevolence!

Heaven is . . .
  the absence of all evil, natural and moral;
  the possession of all possible good;
  a glorified body united with a perfect soul,
and all this in the immediate presence of God!

There we shall see God!

We shall not only see Him—but love Him!

We shall not only love Him—but serve Him!

We shall not only serve Him—but enjoy Him!

We shall not only enjoy Him—but hold such
communion with Him as will assimilate
us to the all-perfect source of our felicity!

The objects of our contemplation,
our situation,
our companions,
our personal constitution,
our constant exercises of holy intellect, heart, and
volition—will be so many distinct sources of bliss!

Perfect knowledge,
perfect holiness, and
perfect love must of necessity
open the fountain of perfect joy!

No secondary concern will call off our unwearied
attention from the service of God; no sin or pain
will interrupt us in it; nor will death ever dismiss
us from it. The business and the blessedness of
that happy state are the same—our supreme
delight will be our constant employment.
Every sense will be an inlet,
every faculty a capacity, and
every energy a pulsation—of the purest bliss!

Heaven will be "life" . . .
  life in perfection,
  the life of the soul,
  the life of God,
  the life of eternity!

But to describe it, how vain and arrogant the
attempt, when even to conceive of it is impossible!
"In Your presence is fullness of joy! At Your right hand
there are pleasures for evermore!" Neither language
nor thought can go beyond this! Mind cannot conceive
more. God Himself can tell us no more, than that
heaven consists in His presence, and the enjoyment
of His favor—forever and ever!

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind
 has imagined the things that God has prepared for
 those who love Him!" (1 Corinthians 2:9)

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All hang dependent on His powerful providence!

(William S. Plumer, "The Rock of Our Salvation" 1867)

"He holds all creation together." Col. 1:17

"He sustains the universe by the mighty power of His
 command!" Hebrews 1:3

Jesus Christ upholds, preserves, and governs the worlds
which He has made!

Thus all creatures, from the smallest insect which is seen
by the microscope; up to the archangel which worships
before the eternal throne; all events, from the falling of
a hair of the head to the destruction of nations by famine,
pestilence, and war; all rule and authority, from that of a
petty official, to that of thrones and principalities in heaven;
the material universe, from the least particle which floats
in the sunbeam to the grandest system of worlds which roll
in immensity--all hang dependent on His powerful
providence! And if one link in the chain of that dependence
were broken, they would all rush headlong to destruction!

Jesus always has governed this world; and He shall ever hold
the scepter over it, until His last foe shall is vanquished, and
His last hidden one made victorious!

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        His names and titles

        (William S. Plumer, "The Rock of Our Salvation" 1867)


        Jesus Christ is a wonderful, a glorious person. His names and titles are as important as they are significant. Every one of them is as ointment poured forth. His people sit under His shadow with great delight, and His fruit is sweet to their taste. To them He is altogether lovely.

        He is their Advocate, the angel of the covenant, the author and finisher of faith. He is as the apple-tree among the trees of the forest; the alpha and the omega.

        He is their the Beloved, the Shepherd and Bishop of souls, the bread of life, the righteous Branch, the bridegroom, the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of His person. He is a bundle of myrrh.

        To His saints He is and is owned to be Creator, captain, counselor, covenant, cornerstone, a covert from the tempest, and the chief among ten thousand.

        He is to them as the Dew, the door into the fold, a days-man, a day-star, a deliverer, a diadem, and the desire of all nations, ranks, and generations of pious men.

        In their eyes He is the Elect, Emmanuel, the everlasting Father and eternal life.

        He is a Fountain of living waters to thirsty souls, of joy to troubled souls, of life to dying souls. He is the foundation on which His people of all ages safely build their hopes of heaven. He is the father of eternity, the fir-tree under whose shadow the saints rejoice, the first and the last, the first fruits of the greatest harvest ever gathered, the first-born among many brethren and the first-begotten from the dead.

        To His chosen He is as the most fine Gold, a guide, a governor, a glorious Lord, God, the true God, God over all blessed for ever.

        He is the Head of the church, the health, the hope, the husband, the heritage, the habitation of His people. He is the horn of their salvation.

        He rides upon the heavens by His name JAH. He is the Jehovah, the inheritance, Judge and King of His saints. He is their Light, their life, their Lord, their leader, their lawgiver, their atoning lamb, the lily of the valley, the lion of the tribe of Judah.

        He is the Man Christ Jesus, the master, the mediator, the messenger of the covenant, the minister of the true sanctuary. He is the mighty God of Isaiah, the Michael of Daniel, the Melchisedek of David and of Paul, the bright and morning star of John, and the Messiah of all the prophets.

        He is the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. He is at once the root and the offspring of David.

        He is the Peace, the prince, the priest, the prophet, the potentate, the purifier, the propitiation for our sins, the physician of souls, the plant of renown, the power of God unto salvation, the Passover of all saints. He is a polished shaft in the quiver of God.

        He is the Rock, the refuge, the ruler, the ransom, the refiner, the Redeemer, the righteousness and the resurrection of all who walk in white. He is the rose of Sharon.

        He is the Seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, the stem of Jesse, the Son of God, the son of man, the shield, the strength, the surety, the Shiloh, the sacrifice, the sanctuary, the salvation, the sanctification, and the sun of righteousness to all believers.

        He is the Truth, the treasure, the teacher, the temple, the tree of life, the great testator of His church.

        He is the Way, the well of salvation, the Word of God, the wisdom of God, the faithful witness. He is THE WONDERFUL.

        His person is one; His natures are two. He is both human and divine, finite and infinite, created and uncreated. He was before Abraham, though not born for ages after that patriarch slept with His fathers. He was dead, and behold He is alive for evermore!

        On earth He had no where to lay His head; yet He disposes of all diadems. By Him kings rule and princes decree justice. He has the arm of a God, and the heart of a brother. To Him all tongues shall confess and all knees bow; yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. None loves like Him, none pities like Him, none saves like Him!

        It is not surprising that such a person lives and reigns in the hearts of His people. No marvel that the virgins love Him, and the saints praise Him, and the martyrs die for Him, and the confessors are not ashamed of Him, and the sorrowing sigh for Him, and the penitent lie at His cross and pour out their tears before Him, and the humble trust in Him, and the believing lay fast hold of Him and will not let Him go. His frown shakes the frame of universal nature, His smile gives life, His presence converts dungeons into palaces, His blood cleanses from all sin, His righteousness is the white robe of the redeemed.

        If men would be safe, or wise, or holy, or happy, or useful, or strong, or victorious--let them look to JESUS! Let them look to none else, let them walk in Him, abide in Him, glory in Him, and count as loss all things besides. You may look at the law until the spirit of bondage overwhelms you with terrors and torments. You may go about to establish your own righteousness until you can boast, and sin, and perish like a Pharisee. You may weep until the fountain of your tears has gone dry, you may have all gifts, understand all mysteries, bestow all your goods to feed the poor, and yield your body to be burned; but all these things will not atone for sin, will do nothing toward regaining the lost favor of God, will not make you fit for the inheritance of the saints in light.

        "None but Christ! None but Christ! None but Christ!" has been the cry of the faithful witnesses of all ages when truth has triumphed, when sinners were converted, when saints shouted for joy, when the word of God mightily grew and prevailed.

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Kissing each other!

(William S. Plumer, "The Rock of Our Salvation" 1867)

"You see, at just the right time, when we were still
 powerless, Christ died for the ungodly." Romans 5:6

We are justly condemned. The single sin of not loving
God with all our heart, and mind, and soul, and strength
--is enough to blot out every hope of heaven. Our sins
have risen up like the mountains between us and God.
They are more than the hairs of our heads. We have
sinned against God. We are all wrong; we are wholly
wrong; we are terribly wrong. Our iniquities have
separated us and God. He is righteous--we are unjust.
He is holy--we are vile. He can do without us--without
Him we are undone.

Salvation by Jesus, is very humbling to man--the sinner,
the wrong-doer. It says to him, "You are unworthy and
unfit to come into the presence of God. You can neither
justify nor excuse your wicked conduct. You are rejected
by God. He utterly abhors all your works, all your pleas,
all your merits. You are condemned. You are vile!"

Salvation by Jesus, marks sin as very evil--deserving
all the woes and wrath denounced against it.

A God all mercy--is a God unjust.

A God all justice--could not forgive a sinner.

In the cross, we see infinite mercy and
inflexible justice--kissing each other!

Christ crucified has been the salvation of millions,
many of whom were sunk in almost unparalleled
guilt, and shame, and ignorance, and misery!

God has filled the heavens and the earth; the sea and
the dry land with wonders; but above all His other works,
the plan of salvation by Jesus Christ is God's monument,
displaying His infinite skill and wisdom!

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Justice sheaths its avenging sword in His heart!

(Henry Law, "Gleanings from the Book of Life")

"God made Him who had no sin to be sin
 for us, so that in Him we might become
 the righteousness of God." 2 Cor. 5:21

It is a comforting thought, that the sins thus
removed from the guilty and transferred to the
guiltless, leave the real transgressor relieved
from the weight of evil.

Thus unrighteousness is removed.

Jesus thus laden with iniquities, endures
all that sin merits and the law denounces.

He approaches the altar of the Cross.

He there presents Himself the willing victim.

He there lays down His life, the all sufficient sacrifice.

He there sheds His blood, worthy to make atonement.

Wrath pours out on Him all its vials.

Justice sheaths its avenging sword in His heart!

The law pours on His head its total curse.

He endures to the uttermost all that justice required.

Where now are the believer's sins?

That which is blotted out can no more be found.

None who are washed in His most precious blood
can be borne off to hell. Satan can offer no charge
against those on whom no sin is found.

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Infinite!

by Matthew Mead

"Alas! it is an infinite righteousness that
must satisfy for our sins, for it is an infinite
God that is offended by us. If ever your sin
be pardoned, it is infinite mercy that must
pardon it; if ever you be reconciled to God,
it is infinite merit must do it; if ever your
heart be changed, and your soul renewed,
it is infinite power must effect it; and if ever
your soul escape hell, and be saved at last,
it is infinite grace must save it."

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IMMUTABILITY

(edited from "The Bow in the Clouds" by John MacDuff)

"I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is
why you descendants of Jacob are not already
completely destroyed." Malachi 3:6

The Unchangeableness of God.

What an anchor for a storm tossed sea!

Change is our portion here!

Scenes are altering. Joys are fading.

Friends! some of them are removed at a distance;
others have gone to their 'long home'.

Who, amid these checkered experiences, does not
sigh for something permanent, stable, enduring?

The vessel has again and again slipped its earthly
moorings. We long for some secure and sheltered harbor.

"I am the Lord, and I do not change!" Heart
and flesh may faint; yes, do faint and fail.

But there is an unfainting, unfailing, unvarying God.

All the changes in the world around cannot affect Him.

Our own fitfulness cannot alter Him. When we are
depressed, downcast, fluctuating; our treacherous
hearts turning aside "like a broken bow," He does
not change.

"God who cannot lie," is the superscription on His
eternal throne; and inscribed on all His dealings.

"I am the Lord, and I do not change!" This forms
a blessed guarantee that nothing can befall
me but what is for my good. I cannot doubt His
faithfulness. I dare not arraign the rectitude
of His dispensations. It is 'covenant love' which
is now darkening my earthly horizon. This hour He
is the same as when He "spared not His own Son!"

Oh, instead of wondering at my trials, let me
rather wonder that He has borne with me so long!
It is because of the Lord's unchanging mercies that
I am not consumed. Had He been man, changeful,
vacillating, as myself, long before now would He
have spurned me away, and consigned me to the
doom of the cumberer.

"I am the Lord, and I do not change!"

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The Lord reigns!

(William S. Plumer, "The Rock of Our Salvation" 1867)

"The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty!" Psalm 93:1

"The Lord reigns! Let the nations tremble!" Psalm 99:1

Jesus Christ is--
  Lord,
  Master,
  Governor,
  Ruler,
  Shepherd,
  Prince,
  Prince and Savior,
  the great Prince,
  the Prince of Life,
  the Prince of Peace,
  the Prince of princes,
  the Prince of the kings of the earth,
  a King,
  the King,
  the King of kings and Lord of lords!

He is God over all, blessed forever!

Christ's kingdom is universal. It includes all worlds,
all creatures, all causes. Nothing in heaven, nothing
in earth--is outside of it. His saints praise Him. The
angels adore Him. The devils are subject to Him. The
king's heart is in His hands, and He turns it wherever
He will. His kingdom rules over all.

His kingdom is supreme. Nothing can shake it. Worms
cannot spit their venom so as to reach the stars in their
course. Nor can puny mortals reach the person or the
power of our glorious Immanuel.

Christ's kingdom is omnipotent. By His own divine
efficiency He carries on His government. He upholds
all things by His powerful word. He does His will in
heaven and in earth. Not an empire rises or sinks,
but by His will. Not a sparrow falls to the ground,
without His notice. Every change on earth is by His
providence. He gives no account of any of His matters.

His work on His people is mighty.
He subdues them to Himself.
He reigns as their Lord and Master.
He chains their great adversary.
He subdues their iniquities.
He strips the world of its fatal fascinations.
He makes them willing in the day of His power.
He leads them into all necessary truth.

"Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!"
    Revelation 19:6

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A melting consideration

(Hopkins)

"Christ died for the ungodly." Romans 5:6

O what a melting consideration is this, that . . .
  out of Christ's agony--comes our victory;
  out of His condemnation--comes our justification;
  out of His pain--comes our ease;
  out of His stripes--comes our healing;
  out of His gall and vinegar--comes our honey;
  out of His curse--comes our blessing;
  out of His crown of thorns--comes our crown of glory;
  out of His death--comes our life!

"Hearts must be harder than the rocks--if the love
 and death of Christ do not move them!" (Plumer)

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Our worst enemies!

(Charles Spurgeon)

Beware of no man more than yourself!

We carry our worst enemies within us!

"The human heart is most deceitful and
 desperately wicked." Jeremiah 17:9

"Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man
 --myself!" Augustine

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He died for His patients!

(William S. Plumer, "The Rock of Our Salvation" 1867)

"The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick. You are sick from head to foot--covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds!" Isaiah 1:5-6

Often in Scripture, sin is spoken of as a disease, a sickness, a hurt.

Christ, as the great Physician, has the only sovereign balm.

Sin is a dreadful disease! Yes, it is the very worst disease! It was the first, and so is the oldest malady. It infected man very soon after his creation. For six thousand years sin has committed its ravages and been gaining inveteracy. No other disease is so old.

Sin is also a universal disease! Other maladies have slain their thousands; but sin has slain its millions! The whole world is a graveyard, full of death and corruption. No person ever lived without sin. As soon as we begin to live, we begin to transgress.

Not only is every man sick, but our whole nature is diseased!
Our understanding is darkened.
Our memory is polluted.
The thoughts of our heart are only evil continually.
Our throats are open graves.
Our tongues practice deceit.
The poison of vipers is on our lips.
Our mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
Our feet are swift to shed blood.
Ruin and misery mark our ways, and the way of peace we do not know.
Our eyes behold vanity.
Our hands are full of bribes and of blood.
Our heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
We love darkness rather than light.

We are utterly diseased with sin!

Sin makes men spiritually blind, and deaf, and dumb, and lame, and lethargic. Sin is a terrible compilation of diseases. It is a rottenness in the bones. It is a maddening fever, a wasting consumption, a paralysis of all the powers. Human nature is wholly corrupt!

Sin is a perpetual disease. It rages day and night; on the sea and on the land; in the house of mirth and in the house of God.

Sin is a hereditary disease. We are conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity.

Sin is also contagious. Sinners are enticers, seducers, corrupters.

Sin is also the most deceitful and flattering disease. One of its strong delusions is, "You shall not die!" See the throng of ungodly people marching to perdition--the slaves of Satan, the servants of corruption, the enemies of God! Their mirth would make one think them to be the happiest of people--and not, as they really are--condemned criminals, on their way to the eternal prison-house of inflexible justice! Sin has its delusive dreams. The worse a man is, the better he thinks himself to be.

Sin is the worst disease, because it is the parent of all other diseases. But for sin, we would never have seen a human being in pain, or sicken, or die. Suffering and agony have one parent--sin!

Other diseases are calamities--but sin is a wickedness! Sin is not a misfortune--sin is a crime! It is a wicked thing to be a sinner. Transgression brings guilt. God is angry with the wicked every day. The more sinful anyone is--the more is God displeased with him.

Sin is the most loathsome of all diseases. Pride is the worst kind of malady. No heart is so vile as a hard heart. No vileness compares with an evil heart of unbelief. No sight is so appalling as a sight of vile affections. Sin is horrible and abominable to God!

Sin is also the most dolorous disease. They multiply their sorrows--who hasten after transgression. The most bitter cries that ever were heard--were extorted by sin.

Other diseases do but kill the body--but sin kills soul and body in hell forever! Sin will rage more violently beyond the tomb than on earth. It will be followed by eternal regrets and reproaches, eternal weeping and wailing, eternal wrath and anguish!

Sin cannot be cured by any means of human devising. All reformations can never cure the heart. "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess," said the Pharisee--while spiritual wickedness reigned within. We may weep and lament over our sins--but that will neither dethrone sin nor atone for it! Our tears are nothing; our works are nothing; all our righteous deeds are as filthy rags; they are of no avail.

The only remedy for sin is found only in Jesus! He is the Physician of souls. None but He can cure a sin-sick soul. He makes no charge for all His cures! He died for His patients! His blood cleanses from all sin. With His stripes we are healed. Christ's death atones. By His sufferings we have remission of sin. In all cases where it is applied, the gospel remedy is sovereign and effectual. It availed for the dying thief, for the bloody Saul of Tarsus, for the cruel jailor, and for millions and millions who once esteemed themselves as vile, and as worthy of everlasting death!

And now, poor, sin-sick, dying soul--flee to this Physician, submit your case to Him, and seek for the healing remedy! If you stay away, you must die! "The wages of sin is death."

"The blood of Jesus cleanses us from every sin!" 1 John 1:7

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