by admin | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
I pray, O God, that I may know You and love You, so that I may rejoice in You. And if I cannot do so fully in this life may I progress gradually until it comes to fullness. Let the knowledge of You grow in me here, and there [in heaven] be made complete; Let Your love...
by admin | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
I certainly grant that many passages in the Scriptures are obscure and hard to elucidate, but that is due, not to the exalted nature of their subject, but to our own linguistic and grammatical ignorance; and it does not in any way prevent our knowing all the contents...
by admin | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
I. Thou lovely source of true delight, Whom I unseen adore, Unveil thy beauties to my sight, That I may love thee more. II. Thy glory o’er creation shines; But in thy sacred word, I read in fairer, brighter lines, My bleeding, dying Lord. III. ’Tis here, whene’er my...
by admin | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
Search the Scriptures. Do not merely read them—search them; look out the parallel passages; collate them; try to get the meaning of the Spirit upon any one truth by looking to all the texts which refer to it. Read the Bible consecutively: do not merely read a verse...
by admin | Jan 21, 2016 | Yet Speaking
What a comfort is this to Christians, that they have the presence of Christ so far forth as shall make them happy, and as the earth will afford. Nothing but heaven, or rather Christ in heaven itself, will content the child of God. In the mean time, his presence in the...
