vol. 5 contd

“Christian, your God’s love to you is always the same. He cannot love you more! He will not love you less! Never, when afflictions multiply, when terrors frighten you or when your distresses abound, does God’s love falter or flag. Let the rod fall ever so heavily upon you, the hand that moves, like the heart that prompts the stroke, is full of love! Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His Grace. Whether He brings you down into the depths of misery, or lifts you up into the seventh Heaven of delight, His faithful love never varies or fluctuates—it is everlasting in its continuity!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3561

“If I think I am not poor, if I am befriended, I shall not have that gratitude which a bankrupt would have had if he had nothing left, to whom someone had generously given a large estate. No, a sense of need helps us to glorify God! Among the saints, and when on earth, the sweetest voices are those that have been made sweet by repentance.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3506

“The quickest road to spiritual wealth is prayer! Every prayer is like a ship sent so the Tarshish of spiritual riches to bring us back treasures better than gold or silver, or precious stones. Let us not be lax in the commerce, lest our wealth decline.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3546

“I do not doubt but what there is many a man who believes a false religion and is as sincere in it as any man is in a true one! But his being sincere in believing a lie does not transform the lie into a truth! And if he follows a wrong way, that wrong way will lead to a wrong end—however sincerely it may be followed!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3486

“Ah, that is a temptation for the mass of us—‘I cannot expect to have fellowship at the Table because I have not come prepared.’ Brothers and Sisters, you ought to have come prepared, but, at the same time, if you have not, rise up quickly and come to the Master as you are!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3461

“If faith can but perceive that Jesus Christ is within the veil at the Father’s Throne, with His heart full of love towards those who trust in Him, then will He be to us our peace!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3386
“Christ Jesus will give a pardon which shall never be revoked! A pardon that cannot hereafter be cancelled. God never plays fast and loose with men. Whom He once pardons, He never condemns.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3547

“We are thankful if we have only a little cottage in our own land where we may dwell, but in Egypt the Son of God must tabernacle for awhile. And when He came back, He sought not His acquaintance amongst even the tradesmen or the middle classes, much less among the lofty and the proud in spirit—He put upon Himself the smock frock of the country—‘a garment without seam, woven from the top throughout’—and His intimate acquaintances were the fishermen of Galilee!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3380

“The songs which are made at the sight of mercy are very sweet, but the songs that are sung before the mercy comes are those which are most acceptable to God.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3435
“Persecution of the saints of God is a scarlet sin that calls aloud to Heaven for vengeance! Manasseh was guilty of this, among other crimes.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3505
“Don’t, don’t, I beseech you, base your evidence of the possession of salvation upon your joy, because if you do, you will be in sad trouble when your joy varies or flies. ”—Volume 63, Sermon #3548

“Brothers and Sisters, we do not like the sick bed—we would not choose aching limbs—especially those of us who are of an active disposition and would be perpetually telling out the love of Christ! And yet in our temporary imprisonment we have seen the Lord’s wisdom and have had to look back with thankfulness upon it. Oh, children of God, your Father knows best! Leave everything in His hands and be at peace, for all is well. May the Holy Spirit work quietness of heart in you.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3372
“Brothers and Sisters, if Christ would, He could prevent our having affliction, but He will not prevent them because He wants to make something of u. For instance, He wants to make some of us to be comforters to others, but how can you comfort others in trouble when you have never experienced the like? ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3420
“If I heard a bad man speak well of God, I would say, ‘Ah, I do not like that! As a jewel of gold set in a swine’s snout, so is a good word from such a man as that.’…Praise is comely to the upright.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3460

“With a fierce determination to ruin himself, man resists the Grace of God, and were it not that He who created the world puts His hand a second time to the work, to create in us a new heart, we would continue in our destruction, in our guilt and enmity to the Most High!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3486

“Oh, I do not wonder at Manasseh’s sin one half as much as I wonder at God’s mercy!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3505
“Woe unto those who divide Believers—who rob them of love to one another—who set up another Gospel which is not another, or in any way detract from the unity of the body of Christ.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3466

“Let the Lord do as He wills to us! He will never be unkind to us! He has always been our Friend—He will never be our foe! He will never put us into the furnace unless He means to purge the dross out of us. Nor will there be one degree more heat in that furnace than is absolutely necessary—there will always be mercy to balance the misery—and strength supplied to support the burden to be borne.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3549

“When persons start up as Prophets, or Prophetesses, and tell us that they have had special visions from the Lord and they know what is going to happen next year, we always understand that their proper destination is Bethlehem Hospital [London insane asylum] and we begin immediately to shun them and their books!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3353

“The crimes of the world are the burdens of the saints. We cannot make the ungodly mourn for their guilt, but we can and do deeply mourn over their insensibility. How can we bear to see our fellow men choosing everlasting destruction, rejecting their own mercies and plunging themselves into eternal misery?”—Volume 59, Sermon #3336

“In like manner they who would receive Christ must receive Him now. This is not a call or a counsel to be trifled with. The procrastination of Felix, which led him to say, ‘When I have a more convenient season I will send for You,’ is a very dangerous spirit. Let those who talked as Felix talked beware lest they perish as Felix perished!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3487

“O that our eyes were as ready with tears of repentance as were hers[Luke 7:37 woman]! O that our hearts were as full of love as hers and our hands as ready to serve the forgiving Lord! If she has exceeded some of us in the publicity of her sin, yet has she not exceeded all of us in the fervency of her affection!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3359

“The fear lest I have not really believed in Jesus, that I have not experienced a saving repentance, that I have not laid hold upon eternal life, distracts me. Well, precaution is better than presumption—it is better to go fearing to Heaven than to go presuming to Hell!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3549

“Oh, my dear Hearers, the God that can forgive great sin can also change hard hearts! Cry to Him! If you are unsaved, may His Spirit lead you to seek salvation now.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3505

“But be not deceived! The customs you adopt and the habits you cherish combine with the depravity of your own nature to weld a chain which the strength of Hercules could not snap—a chain that makes the creature an abject slave to the flesh, instead of a liege subject of his adorable Creator.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3462

“He that believes in Jesus shall never be so left of God as to fall finally from Grace! He shall never be so deserted as to give up his God, for his God will never give him up so far as to let him give up his confidence, or his hope, or his love, or his trust! The Lord, even our God, holds us with His strong right hand and we shall not be moved!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3387

“Nothing is impossible to those who know how believingly to enquire of God.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3472
“If you fear because you feel your unworthiness, it is a blessed fear! Trust in the worthiness of Christ and your fear shall give place to faith!”—

Volume 63, Sermon #3549
“It is as hard to deliver a man from self-righteousness as from unrighteousness, as difficult to deliver one man from the frostbite of his own orderliness as to save another from the heat of his unbridled passions.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3372

“It is absurd, it is horrible both to faith and to reason to say that Christ’s body is eaten and that His blood is drunk in tens of thousands of places wherever priests choose to offer what they call, “the mass!” It is a “mass” of profanity, indeed! Our Lord Jesus Christ, as to His real, positive, corporeal Presence, is not here. As to His flesh and His blood, He is not, and cannot be here!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3401

“There is many a mother’s son whose heart will be turned to God long after his mother’s bones have been laid in the churchyard. The vision is for an appointed time—though it tarry, wait for it. Your son will yet be brought to Glory through your prayers. Pray on, Brothers and Sisters, pray on for those whose sins and sorrows lay heavily on your heart! Pray on, and God will hear you!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3505

“In indictments for witchcraft, I suppose, you punish the impostor as a knave, while you laugh at the victim as a dupe. But in cases of priestcraft, you divide the scandal more equally. So the Sunday theatricals run their course till the force of thought, the voice of conscience, and, I might add, the love of liberty, shall pronounce their doom!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3550

“It would create an almost miraculous change in some people’s lives if they made a point of speaking most of the precious things and least of the worries and ills! Why always the poverty? Why always the pains? Why always the dying child? Why always the husband’s small wages? Why always the unkindness of a friend? Why not sometimes—yes, why not always—the mercies of the Lord? That is praise and it is to be our everyday garment, the livery of every servant of Christ!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3349

“Growth in faith also is necessary for oursanctification. It is by faith that sin is kept down and that all our Divine Graces grow. Unless faith is vigorous, we cannot expect to be making progress towards perfection. Sanctification is a daily and unceasing thing. It is carried on in our thoughts and hearts by the Holy Spirit, but faith in the precious blood is the great means He uses for that sanctifying.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3384

“I do not envy Gabriel his crown when God gives me souls! I have then thought that I would rather be here to talk with you and point you to my Master’s Cross, than be up there and cast my crown at His feet—for surely there can be no joy in Heaven greater than the joy of doing the Master’s will in winning souls for Him!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3346

“Although my words were never so weighty, they could not be weighty enough to fitly describe your momentous peril! It is not possible for human language to set out the horror of an impenitent soul, the terrible condition of a sinner at enmity with his God!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3462

“A Believer cannot let his lower nature get the uppermost and yet find that he is walking agreeably to the Lord’s mind. Your spiritual nature ought to keep your mental nature under control—and your mental nature ought to keep your bodily or animal nature entirely in check. ”—Volume 63, Sermon #3552

“Beloved, we must neither let go of God, nor let go of our sense of His power to save us! We must hold to our possession of Him and hold to the belief that He is worth possessing, that He is God, All-Sufficient, and that He is still our God.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3507

“We err when we pin our profession to creeds of human devising. Creeds are exceedingly useful and I hope they will never be discarded…But our creed must not be the dogmas of general councils, or the opinions of learned men, much less must it be the reflection of “modern thought,” which is full of infidelity—it must be the Truths of God which we have received directly from the Word of God!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3440

“We think of some poor men that are, for their livelihood, compelled to work in loathsomeness in our common sewers, but oh, what is all that compared with the heart! Yet the Infinite Mercy, condescension and Omnipotent Grace of God stooped down to deal with our inward parts! Admire the condescension of God and have hope for yourself, poor lost one, because God will deal with your inward parts!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3486

“There is one privilege I prize at this moment—I cannot tell you how much. It is this—the liberty to pray, the power to pray, the promise that I shall be heard! Take the Mercy Seat from me and poverty, faintness and anguish would seize my soul!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3341
“Those churches which are now writing, ‘Ichabod,’ on their walls and who sorrowfully confess that the congregation is slowly dwindling, might soon restore their numbers if they did but know how to pray!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3421

“Well, now, if He did all this for the sake of us who are so unworthy, what ought you and I to do for His sake, who is so worthy? And if He emptied His great Self for us, who are as nothing, shall not we be ready to empty our little selves for Him, who is so great?”—Volume 59, Sermon #3380
“If there is anything taught in Scripture for certain, it is the Doctrine of the Final Perseverance of the Saints! I am as sure that Doctrine is as plainly taught as the Doctrine of the Deity of Christ. Words cannot put it more distinctly than God has graciously revealed it. Hear what Christ says. ‘I give unto My sheep eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall any pluck them out of My hand.’”—Volume 63, Sermon #3549

“As soon as you know what your Lord would have you to do, every moment of unnecessary delay is a sin!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3372
“We must get away from all building upon our apprehensions of God’s love. It is the love, itself, we must build on—not on our enjoyment of His Presence, but on His faithfulness and on His truth. Therefore, be not cast down, but still call Him, ‘My God.’”—Volume 62, Sermon #3507
“There was never a soul divorced from his sins by the blandishments of rhetoric! You cannot persuade men to give up their favorite passions by goodly words. The trembling pathos or the withering scorn of your address will prove, alike, unavailing.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3462

“How can you know wisdom till you have hated sin? God has not introduced you to the school yet, until He has made you smart under His rod on account of sin. This is the very beginning of wisdom, to know the bitterness and mischief of sin, and to turn from it.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3486

“No man is alive unto God, spiritually, except through Christ. Because Christ lives, we live. When a dead soul gets into living contact with the living Savior by the power of the Spirit, then it is, that spiritual life begins. The very first evidence of spiritual life is trusting in Jesus, which shows that as the first symptom is alliance to Christ, the cause of the life must be somewhere here, namely, union with Christ!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3401

“‘Neither give place to the devil.’ Idle persons tempt the devil to depart by being busy—by being prayerful, and by being much with God. Give no place to the devil.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3466
The virtues, if I may so say, of both sexes were combined in our Lord—the suavity as well as the staunchness—the feminine as well as the masculine of our common humanity!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3553
“We are told not to be covetous. Why? Why should we be covetous? God has said He will never leave us and if we have Him, we possess all things. Who has need to be covetous when all things are his and God is his?”—Volume 60, Sermon #3387

“Brothers and Sisters, if we do not experimentally know what it is to have the Truth of God as it is in Jesus brought to our remembrance by the Holy Spirit, we must not rest satisfied until we do, for this is one of the marks and evidences, as well as one of the privilegesof the child of God, that the Holy Spirit is his personal Teacher.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3353

“Oh, how good it is for us to know that this world’s history is not so black and bad as to our dim senses it would appear! God is writing it out, sometimes with a heavy pen, but when complete, it will read like one great poem—magnificent in its plan and perfect in all its details! ”—Volume 62, Sermon #3508

“In that fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins there is a fullness that never can be exhausted by all the sin of man! He has finished the work which His Father gave Him to do. Now the Covenant is ratified with Him that He shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied. In these respects we are convinced that there is an acquired as well as a personal fullness in our precious Lord!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3553

“Beloved, we do not wonder if persons sneer at the Gospel in itself, or if others hear it and are unaffected by it, for the Gospel, in itself, is like a sword without a warrior’s arm to wield it. But when the Spirit of God comes, man is a doubter no longer! When He lays home the Truth of God, He cuts so to the dividing of soul and spirit, joint and marrow, so that men are convinced, converted, SAVED—and the Truth is to them, indeed, a living thing! Pray, O beloved members of this Church, pray that the Word of God, even our Gospel, may come with the Holy Spirit!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3551

“You know that truth is one thing, but wisdom is better than knowledge, for wisdom is the right way of using knowledge! Many a knowingman is a fool. A wise man is a ‘knowing’ man, although ‘a knowing man’ is not always wise.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3486
“One of the first uses of the Prayer Meeting, then, is to encourage a discouraged people.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3421

“Brothers, if you seek the life of other souls and desire to see them brought to God, preach Christ to them! Do you not see, ‘Because I live you shall live’? Then no sinner will ever live spiritually apart from Christ. Though you and I cannot quicken them, yet we can preach the Gospel to them—and faith comes by hearing! And where faith is, there is life.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3401
“Do you suffer from spiritual poverty? It is your own fault, for He gives more Grace. If you have not got it, it is not because it is not to be had, but because you have not gone for it—you have not sought for it—you have not walked in such a way that you could possess it and exhibit its fruit!—Volume 61, Sermon #3459

“No child of God can be very long without trouble of some kind or other, for, sure it is that the road to Heaven will always be rough.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3508
“Dear Hearer, you must go to Christ for yourself! All who ever were saved have done so, and you certainly will not be saved unless you are led to do the same! It is a personalfilling.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3553
“Let none of us ever fall into the gross error of those who imagine that there is attached to certain ceremonies a certain degree of Divine Grace. It is not so. He is not a Christian who is one outwardly—he is a Christian who is one inwardly.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3475

“Whatever some may say about the Doctrine of Substitution, Christ is still the Power of God and the Wisdom of God. The way, so simple, yet so sublime, by which God is just and yet the justifier of him that believes, exhibits the Infinite Wisdom of the Most High!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3362

“True faith confesses Christ and, at the same time, confesses its sin. There must be repentance of sin and acknowledgment of it before God if faith is to give proof of its truth.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3363
“So observe that what God requires of us in one place, God gives us in another! He deals with sinners very honestly—He tells them what He wants. He then deals with them very generously, for He gives them what they need!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3486
“We are told that men can be regenerated by baptism—and we have seen these regenerated infants develop into what, to our minds, was nothing more than ‘baptized heathens, washed to deeper stains.’”—Volume 61, Sermon #3462
“You may, my dear Hearer, be so tried that you think nobody ever had such a trial. Well, then, your faith may look out for such a deliverance as nobody else ever experienced! If you have an excess of grief, you shall have the more abundant relief.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3508
“Oh, if any of you desire to find Jesus Christ, the doing must be in the way of undoing! You must be emptied to be filled! The preparation is a consciousness that you are not prepared! In such unpreparedness you are prepared for Christ!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3553
“This is thesin which causes men to perish, that they believe not in Christ. “He that believes not is condemned already, because He has not believed on the Son of God.””—Volume 59, Sermon #3376
“Blessed be God, this is the only contention among the birds of Paradise—which owes the most, which shall love the best, which shall lie lowest and which shall extol their Lord the most zealously! Charming rivalry of humility! Let us have more of it below.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3349
“Let us, in all things, great or small, ask counsel of Christ! And when once we know His will, let us never have a second thought! It is not ours to reason or to question, but it is ours to suffer loss and endure reproach, if need be, when we have His orders.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3440

“The fact is that the Grace of God makes the people of God to sing sweetly where other people would murmur! They are satisfied where others would find easy ground for discontent. But how easy it is—how easy it must be for a man to be contented when he knows that God has promised to be with him in all circumstances and at all times!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3387

“A man who finds a treasure hid in a field will congratulate himself on his good fortune. A woman, when she embraces her first-born child, will dote on him with exquisite fondness. Shall no strong emotions prove our sincerity when we receive the Lord of Life and Glory?”—Volume 61, Sermon #3487

“That thirst, that hunger, those pangs He [Christ] felt often throughout His life of weariness and woe—those were caused by sin being laid upon Him! It was not possible that He should be perfectly happy while sin was upon Him—it would have been impossible for Him to have been unhappy had not sin beenimputedtoHim.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3554

“A more frequent, or a more fearful wretchedness of heart than I have suffered it is not likely any of you ever felt. Yet do I know that my Redeemer lives, that the battle is sure, that the victory is safe. If my testimony is worth anything, I have always found that when I am most distressed about circumstances that I cannot control, when my hope seems to flicker where it ought to flare, when the worthlessness and wretchedness of my nature obscure the evident of any goodness and virtue imparted to me or worked in me—just then it is that a sweet spring of cool consolation bubbles up to quench my thirst and a sweet voice greets my ears, ‘It is I. be not afraid.’”—Volume 62, Sermon #3508

“You, dear Hearers, have perhaps said to yourselves, “I cannot be saved because I am not holy.” The truth is you cannot be holy because you are not saved—being saved comes first. Holiness is never the root—it is always the fruit! It is not the cause, it is the effect! You must come to Jesus as you are and trust Him. And then He will give you the Holy Spirit to work in you the new heart, the new desire—and to make you a new creature.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3519

“There is one sweet reason that Jesus gives why He died for His people. You remember it. He loved His Church and gave Himself for it, that He might present it to Himself, ‘without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing.’”—Volume 63, Sermon #3554
“‘All things are possible to him that believes,’ and more than all is possible to him that loves!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3339

“I think this Book [Revelation] has been trailed in the mire by being used as a sort of astrologer’s book to tell us about the future, instead of being used practically to humble us before God and to teach us to lean upon eternal wisdom, which knows all things from the beginning.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3467

“All Grace leads us to gratitude. Grace never leads us to lift up ourselves and say, “I have done well to obtain it.” Grace, like the cargo in the vessel, makes the ship sink deeper in the stream. He that has most Grace is the lowliest man. You shall measure your rising in Grace by your sinking in humility.—Volume 61, Sermon #3459

“Notice one thing more in these three words, that the participle is in the present. ‘To whom coming,’ not, ‘Having come to Him,’ though I trust many of us havecome, but the way of salvation is not to come to Christ and then forget it, but to continue coming, to be always coming!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3509

“There are those who think that pardon through atoning blood will make men live in sin. They little know what is in the heart of the redeemed, for, being bought with such a price, we would be perfect if we could! So much has been done for us that if we could do for Christ ten thousand times more than we have ever done, we would only rejoice to do it, cost what it may!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3554

“There is a mysterious, supernatural energy which comes from the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity which really, at this day, falls upon men—as really as when Peter spoke with unknown tongues or worked miracles. And though the power of working miracles is not given now, yet spiritual power is given and this spiritual power is as manifest, and just as certainly with us, today, if we possess the Spirit, as it was with the Apostles!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3421

“There is infinitely more solace and satisfaction here than I can bring out. I must leave it with you and commend it to your meditation. I am sure there is no more delightful manna for the pilgrims in the wilderness to feed upon than this Doctrine applied to the heart! The love ofGod towards us personally in Jesus Christis an everlasting love.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3561
“To go in up to the ankles in the sea of Christ’s love is well, but oh, to pass up to the loins and to get still further until you find it “a river to swim in”—this is to know the true delights of godliness!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3396
“All the ceremonies that can possibly be practiced, with the sanction of antiquity or the invention of modern priestcraft to recommend them, can have no effect in changing the bias of the human will, or in renewing the qualities of human nature!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3462

“Ah, Beloved, it is useless to receive Christ nominally, professionally, ceremonially, or with rites and ceremonies, to do Him empty homage! By a sincere reception of Him who was sent of God, your nature, your disposition and your habits will be transformed from what they were, and conformed to what He is—and the change will be conspicuous, for if you are in Christ, and Christ is in you, all will become new!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3487

“A man may have been a condemned sinner five minutes ago, but the moment that he knows Christ, he is a justified soul! By that very knowledge, or, as I have said, by that faith, by that simple dependence on the Christ whom he has learned to know, the man is just and he may go on his way rejoicing!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3554

“The Christian is always coming to Christ. He does not look upon faith as a matter of 20 years ago, and done with, but he comes today and he will come tomorrow! ”—Volume 62, Sermon #3509

“But if you join a Christian Church, take heed how you live, for your actions may become doubly watched—and will be doubly sinful if you fall into inconsistency! You are a servant in the family and a member of a Christian Church—there must be in you no eye-service! There must be about you nothing which would dishonor a good servant of Jesus Christ! You are a husband—you have no business to be a bad-tempered, domineering tyrant to your wife! If you are, you ought not to be a member of a Christian Church at all!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3411

“Pray the Holy Spirit to write upon your souls, to carve deeply upon your hearts, all that Jesus Christ may speak to you!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3440

“But Jesus is Immortal and about Him, He wears the golden band to show that He excels all the priests of Aaron’s line. As for those persons who, in modern times, pretend to be priests, our Lord Jesus Christ is not to be mentioned in the same day with them. They are all deceivers!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3555

“There are many who cannot believe in Jesus because—now let them themselves estimate the force of this—they cannot believe in Jesus because they have a besetting sin that they cannot give up! There is the bottom of most men’s doubt! They would not doubt if they did not sin.”—
Volume 61, Sermon #3463

“There is no exaggeration in the language of the spouse when she says, ‘Yes, He is altogether lovely.’ Such as receive Him with their hearts, will find that the most rapturous expressions that saints have ever used do not exceed, but fall infinitely short of the delight, the heavenly joys, which He brings into the soul!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3487

“All caste of priesthood is forever abolished! Every man that fears God, and every woman, too, is a priest according to the Word of God which is written, “He has made us kings and priests unto God.” The priesthood is common to all the saints—not confined to some!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3555

“Child of God, let me bring to your remembrance, tonight, the fact that you are by nature no better than the vilest of the vile! ‘Children of wrath even as others,’ are we. Even you who are favored by Divine Grace to enter into rich fellowship with Christ are no better, naturally, than the lost spirits in Hell!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3347

“I have often told you, my dear Brothers and Sisters, that when you get a little above the ground, if it is only an inch, you get too high. When you begin to think that surely you are a saint, and that you have some good thing to trust to, that rotten stuff must all be pulled to pieces! Believe me, God will not let His people wear a rag of their own spinning—they must be clothed with Christ’s Righteousness from head to foot!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3509

“Whenever the Lord lays bare His arm for war, He first gathers His saints into a place of safety! He did not destroy the world by the flood till Noah and his family were safe in the ark. He would not suffer a single fire drop to fall on Sodom till Lot had escaped to Zoar. He carefully preserves His own—nor flood, nor flame, nor pestilence, nor famine shall do them harm! We read in the Revelation that the angel said, ‘Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.’”—Volume 59, Sermon #3377

“We have heard that the ordinances of God’s House have a blessing connected with them. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. That in the keeping of His commandments there is great reward—and as we have heard, so have we seen. I am sure that the blessed Supper of the Lord, though many of His people come to the table every week, never seems to grow stale.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3396

“Nothing but condemnation can be the lot of the man or woman who despises pardon and treats forgiveness with contempt. When simply to trust Christ saves the soul, to distrust Him is the direst and most damnable of sins! It is suicidal! Unbeliever, you refuse to pass through the only Door that can lead you to Heaven!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3555

“If there were fewer unregenerate sinners than there are, we would probably be more concerned about them. If there were only a dozen unconverted persons in the world, all the Church of God would be praying for their conversion, but because there are many millions of them, they are so common that we do not look upon them with the awe, the tenderness and the yearning sympathy which we ought to feel.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3353

“If men were not idiotic, they would shake off from themselves all idea of sacramental efficacy and everything that is akin to it! They would see that what God wants is the heart, the soul, the love, the trust, the confidenceof rational, intelligent beings—not the going through of certain forms!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464

“From a certain sort of sins we are very easily separated by the Grace of God early in our spiritual life, but when those are gone, another layer of evils comes into sight and the work has to be repeated. The complete removal of our connection with sin is a work demanding the Divine skill and power of the Holy Spirit and by Him only will it be accomplished. ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3388
“But, oh, my Hearer, perhaps you have no pretensions to be a child of His! Perhaps you may have played the hypocrite and made a profession in your own strength. You turned back from the company of those who fear the Lord because you never were truly converted! If it is so, let the mercy, which God shows to sinners, embolden you to cry to Him. And may He break you to pieces now with the hammer of His Word. So may He save you and so shall His praise be exceedingly great in your salvation! ”—Volume 62, Sermon #3510

“Surely the very angels are not so comely as the Church is, now that Christ has cleansed her. The heavens are not pure in His sight and He charged His angels with folly—but the blood-washed Church is pure and no folly is charged on her! Her righteousness is the righteousness of her Creator, and her purity is the holiness of God, Himself!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3554

“When you receive Christ in at the front door, you must not keep the devil in the back parlor! Every traitor sin must be ejected when the Great King takes up His residence in your heart! The thorough cleansing of your house from every defilement is the smallest tribute we can expect you pay in deference to your royal Guest. The soul that receives Christ joyfully sighs and groans because it cannot make, as it would, a clean sweep of its sin!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3487

“Anything that would make us pray would be a blessing—and if ever we should come to times of persecution again, we must fly to the shadow of the Eternal and, keeping close together in simple, intense prayer—we shall find a shelter from the blast.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3421
“Jesus will never again be an object of indifference to a forgiven sinner. If the Lord has pardoned you, you will henceforth feel the deepest interest in your Savior and in all things which concern His Kingdom and work among men.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3359
“Principle would prevail over policy to the end, if in their hearts they believed the Truth of God as it is in Jesus! It were no dishonor to a prince to go and sit down side by side with a pauper, were they both true followers of Jesus Christ! ”—Volume 63, Sermon #3556
“If a sick man cares more for pardon than for health, it is a good sign. Soul mercies will be prized above all others where faith is in active exercise.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3363
“Don’t struggle, Sinner, after righteousness in your own strength—fall back and rest on the Infinite Love of God in Christ Jesus! ‘Tis all you have to do—to leave off doing and let Christ do everything!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3441
“We must take care how we live, for this is the only lifetime we shall have in which to settle the life that lasts forever! ”—Volume 62, Sermon #3511

We [ministers] shall not be good stewards in the management of our fellow servants unless we are ourselves filled with the Grace of God! We must set our fellow servants an example of zeal and tenderness, constancy, hopefulness, energy andobedience. We must ourselves practice constant selfdenial and select as our own part of the work that which is the hardest and most humiliating. We are to rise above our fellows by superior selfforgetfulness. Be it ours to lead the forlorn hopes and bear the heaviest burdens.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3350

“As the ringleaders of riotous transgression, when converted, often make the best revivalist preachers, so those who seem to be the most loyal subjects of Christ, when they become renegades, prove to be the bitterest foes and the blackest sinners!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3556

“Do I hear anyone say, ‘Perhaps as he grows older the power of sin will grow weaker’? I have heard that suggestion many times but my solemn conviction is that if you want the worst of man, you will find them among the oldest of men! And if you seek a confirmed criminal, you most generally find him with gray hairs upon his head.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3462

“Predestination can never be contrary to the promise. It is not in Election, or Reprobation, or in any Doctrine that asserts Divine Sovereignty to make the promise of God to be of none effect!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3412

“No man shall be a loser in the long run by loving and serving God. If you are willing and obedient, trusting yourself with Christ, you shall find those awful wheels of Providence revolve for your welfare. The beasts of the field shall be in league with you, and the stones of the field shall be at peace with you. All things shall work together for good to them that love God.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3511

“There are so many instances in which God has heard the prayer of persons in deep trouble, that the most troubled of all men ought to be encouraged to pray!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3468

“‘Masses’ for the repose of the soul indicate the incompleteness of the salvation which Rome has to offer. Well may it be so, since Papal salvation is by works—and even if salvation by good works were possible, no man can ever be sure that he has performed enough of them to secure his salvation!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3479
“Think not lightly of the doom of the lost, lest you think lightly of sin, and lightly of Christ, for as you have heard and infinitely more than you have heard, shall you see!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3396

“The mere form of outward worship is nothing—it is not acceptable with God.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464
“‘The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son.’ I know of no Truth of God more dreadful to meditate upon! Think of it, you careless ones—the very Christ who died on Calvary is He by whom you will be sentenced!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3377
“When Believers do not agree and are picking holes in each other’s coats, they do not really love one another—and then their prayers cannot succeed.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3421
“God cannot linger when a sinner cries. When a sinner weeps, Christ will soon have pity on him. But, anyhow, keep on till He comes. Seek till He rains righteousness upon you. ”—Volume 63, Sermon #3557

“Now I am not pretending that piety will procure wealth, or that if you espouse Christ’s cause you shall grow rich…You are none the less likely to prosper in business for being a Christian. I am not going to predict that you shall be without sickness, much less without temptation, for, “whom the Lord loves, He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.” But I am sure of this, that if you put your trust in God and do right, no temporal circumstances shall ever happen to you which shall not be for your eternal good!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3511

“Let us be thankful if God does not give us our portion here. It is one of the things to be dreaded—the having your portion in this life! It is said of some that they have their portion in this life—and our Lord said of the Pharisees—‘Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.’ Oh, let us pray God not to give us our reward here!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3380

“Sinner, have you prayed? Pray again. Have you prayed twice? Pray again! Has it come to three times? Pray again! Has it come to four times? Pray again! Does it amount to six times? Pray again! Let there be no stint in prayer. You have kept God waiting long enough. You must not marvel if He should now tarry awhile. Pray again! Pray again! Say, ‘I am resolved that I will not give it up until You shall rain Your comfort, Your righteousness, Your Grace, upon me.’”—Volume 63, Sermon #3557

“Have you never heard how the martyrs used to sing at the stakes? Why was it? Not because the fire was made of roses—they did not find the firewood to be less hot to them than they would have been to others—but it was because the love of God was shed abroad in their hearts and, therefore, they could endure all things for Christ’s sake, seeing that His love was theirs. It sweetens all.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3339

“How sad to see a mind capable of thought and reason bowed down at the feet of witches and mutterers of spells! How horrible to see a man making a league with death and a covenant with Hell! Still, if a man should have gone this length, he may yet be recovered out of the snare of the devil by Almighty Grace! Friend, if you have even wandered into this infamous wickedness, you need not despair, for Jesus lives to save the vilest of the vile!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3354

“Of the nations, though they reject Christ and continue in their idolatry, yet there are some choice spirits who come—some whom the Lord looks upon with great delight—and these shall come.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3442

“Our text says they are fools. Well, that is my opinion, but it does not matter what my opinion may be. The point that does matter, however, is that it is God’s opinion of every man who is not a Believer or trusting in Him. In plain English, every such man is a fool. That is God’s opinion of him—God who cannot err—who is never too severe, but who speaks the literal truth—that he who is not a Believer is a fool! ”—Volume 62, Sermon #3512

“Oh, Sinner, be not discouraged, but seek the Lord, for you have His promise He will be found of you!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3557

“There are some who from their childhood have been taught to say a form of prayer. I shall neither commend nor censure, but I will say this—you may repeat that form of prayer for twenty, forty, 50 years, and yet never have prayed a single word in all your life!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464

“The Church began with feeble numbers, with small wealth. I might add, with comparatively little talent, but she was clothed with the Holy Spirit—she was, therefore, mighty!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3361

“We can only honor God and bless men by being holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. O corn of the Lord’s threshing floor, you must be beaten and bruised, or perish as a worthless heap! Eminent usefulness usually necessitates eminent affliction.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3388
“By what means are we to put away this old sin? There it stands. Suppose we obey God from this time forth till we die without a single fault—we shall then only have done what it was our duty to perform and God had a right to expect of us!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3408

“If you are to have a hope in mercy, you must know that it is mercy! You must know that you need it as mercy! You must be clean divorced from every confidence except in mercy! You must come to this, that it must be Grace first, last, and midst—Grace everywhere—otherwise else it will never serve or save such a poor helpless castaway as you are. A sound hope, then, is one in which a man knows that he needs mercy!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3390

“They say that there is no Hell. He will never say that who has ever felt the pains of a guilty conscience—the pangs of unforgiven sin to a soul that is made alive by the Spirit of God!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3476
“Prayer alone would not be a sufficient proof of love, but He who dies and prays, whose life is a prayer, and whose death is a prayer, proves His love by adding to His life and death the vocal utterance of both in this cry, ‘Father, forgive them.’”—Volume 63, Sermon #3558

“You young men in the great firms of London. You working men that work in the factories—you are sneered at. Let them sneer! If they can sneer you out of your religion, you have not got any worth having! Remember you can be laughed into Hell, but you can never be laughed out of it!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3512

“He who would serve God to any purpose must be willing to serve Him all alone. If you cannot stand the brunt of being forsaken, you will scarcely do to be a soldier of the Cross. Those whom Christ will greatly use must learn to be misunderstood, to be misrepresented by their Brothers and Sisters and in their more daring projects to be looked upon as being perfectly beside themselves.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3364

“You might just as well say the Lord’s Prayer backwards as forwards for the matter of its acceptance with God, except you say it with your heart!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464
“It is of no use holding special services for the quickening of the spiritually dead unless the Holy Spirit is brought into the field by our prayers!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3421
“If Jesus prays, and proves His love by prayer, and if the saints on earth who love you pray for you, depend upon it, prayer is no light thing.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3558

“Our dear babies that died in infancy, we believe to be all washed in the blood of Jesus, and all saved—but for the rest of mankind who have lived to years of responsibility, there will be only one of two things—they must either be saved because they had faith in Christ, or else the full weight of Divine Wrath must fall upon them! Either the mark of Christ’s pen, or of Christ’s sword, must be upon everyone!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3377

“The best refuge for a Believer in times of persecution is his secret resort to God! Let him go on his knees and say, ‘My Lord, I have been counted worthy to be spoken ill of for Your name’s sake. Help me to bear it. Now is my time of trial. Strengthen me to bear this reproach. Grant that it may be no heavy burden to me, but may I rather rejoice in it for Your name’s sake.’ God will help you, beloved.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3512

“The Lord does not expect you, Beloved, while you are in this world at, any rate, to know everything, but He does expect that you who call yourselves His people should also be as little children, who are quite willing to learn!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464

“It is a poor faith that can only see Christ in the sunlight. It is a brave faith that sees Him at midnight. It is poor faith that believes that Jesus is there when all prospers, but it is right faith that knows He is there when nothing prospers except faith, which prospers most when tried.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3443

“Oh, my dear Hearers, there are none of us who know to the full extent the sin of our sin! The most tender heart here does not know the blackness of its sin!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3558

“There are such here tonight of whom I might speak—only the Lord bless them and keep them as they are—for I have seen Apostolic Christianity here! If I have seen it nowhere else, I have seen it here among some of my Brothers and Sisters here present, whose service for the Lord shall be remembered in the Day of Account! They wish it not to be known here, nor will it be, but they have, with tears and prayers, devoted themselves to Christ and served Him well—and He will remember them in that Day.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3551

“Oh, Sinner, have hope for yourself, willful and wicked as you may have been! If you cannot amend your ways and change your heart, He can do it for you! The iron bands of habit He can snap. The adamantine net of lasciviousness He can break in pieces! From the degrading abominations of drunkenness He can extricate you! All the charms of worldliness He can dissolve! He can set you free, though you are now a captive fast in the inner prison with your feet in the stocks! While the Holy Spirit lives, while Jesus intercedes, while the Father is willing to receive prodigals, let no one despair! Grace makes the most worthless creatures welcome to the most inestimable blessings! What Paul said to saints I venture to say to sinners, Covet earnestly the best gifts.’ Amen.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3519

“There are those who say that Christ has thus given Himself for every man now living, or that ever did or shall live. We are not able to subscribe to the statement, though there is a Truth in it, that in a certain sense He is “the Savior of all men,” but then it is added, ‘Especially of them who believe.’”—Volume 62, Sermon #3513

“Our [ministers] example must encourage others to wait upon the Lord. As our business is to tell them the mind of God, let us study that mind very carefully.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3350
“…you would have need to die like Christ to know what sin means in its infinite, its boundless guilt!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3558

“If we are not perfect, yet at least let us be sincere! And if there are sins into which we fall through inadvertence and surprise, yet at least uprightness before our fellow men is one thing that must not be lacking—cannot be lacking in a gracious soul—in a true child of God whom God accepts.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464

“Judge not, O Believer, that God hates you because He afflicts you! But interpret truly and see that He honors you by every stroke which He lays upon you…Remember, however, that as threshing is a sign of the impurity of the wheat, so is afflictionan indicationof the present imperfection of the Christian. If you were no more connected with evil, you would be no more corrected with sorrow.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3388

“Brother and Sisters, just as the life of the baby would not be sustained unless something was done for it which it could not do for itself, so the life of the Christian is of the same sort—dependent upon the blessed offices of God the Holy Spirit, and of the gracious Redeemer who watches over all the children of Grace as a nurse watches over her child.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3444

“I believe that when any professor falls into a filthy sin, it is not the beginning, but the culmination of a process and growth in iniquity! The open sin comes at the heels of a long succession of neglected prayers, of neglected worship of God in the family, a neglect of all communion with Christ and negligence of every good thing. It is the fruit, not the seed of the evil, which poisons the air and excites the public contempt.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3422

“My good works cannot save me, cannot even help to save me— but they are evidences of my being saved—and if I am notzealous for good works, I lack the evidence of salvation and I have no right whatever to conclude that I shall receive one jot of benefit from Christ’s sufferings upon the Cross!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3513

“Irregularities among men do not disorganize the ordained purposes of Heaven, and what we think to be chaos is a well-ordered system, far beyond our imagination, into which we vainly attempt to peer.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3559

“Whenever our spiritual life is very weak and we want it to grow stronger, let us get to the living Christ for the supply of His strength. When you feel you are ready to die, spiritually, go to the Savior for revived life. The text is like a hand that points us to the storehouse. Contemplate Christ! Believe in Christ! Draw yourselves by faith nearer and nearer to the Lord Jesus Christ, and so shall your life receive a Divine impetus which it has not known for many a day. ‘Because I live, you shall live also.’”—Volume 60, Sermon #3401

“Worship, then, can never go up from all the pealing organs in the world if men’s hearts go not with them!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464

“The common sin of God’s people is slackness in prayer. If there is one sin that needs to be preached about more than another just now, it is the sin of the omission of secret dealings with God. This is the secret of our spiritual leanness, the secret of many of our trials, of our lack of joy, our loss of confidence in God.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3339

“There was no difference at birth and no intrinsic essential difference of moral constitution between Peter and Judas, between Paul and Demas, between the brightest Apostle and the bloodiest persecutor! We have grown in Grace—had we been left to ourselves, we would have rotted in sin! We have gone from strength to strength in the way of holiness, but if it had not been for Divine Grace that interposed most sovereignly, we should have gone from depth to depth in the way of crime!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3347

“If men attack any Truth revealed to us by Christ, they do in effect what the soldier did in fact—they do spirituallyas this Roman soldier did literally—they thrust at His heart! If you disparage the words that Jesus spoke, or call in question the Truth that He showed to His disciples and
made manifest in the Word of God, what is there left of that mission in which He made known the will of God, the Father?”—Volume 63, Sermon #3559
“God gets some of His richest praise amidst dying groans—and He gets delightful music from His people’s triumphant cries.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464

“It seems to me that this is the order in which God would have His Church carry out every evangelical enterprise, forgetting and ignoring all fleshly distinctions, understanding that men are either sinners or saints. As to circumcision or uncircumcision, vast as its importance in the kingdom of Israel, it is of no account in the Kingdom of God!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514

“Such was this Manasseh—the very chief of sinners! I feel certain that among those whom I address there is not a grosser sinner than he was. And I might almost say there never lived a worse! He has an evil eminence among the lovers of iniquity and yet he was saved by DivineGrace! O you who hear these words or read them, never dare to doubt the possibility of your being forgiven! If such a wretch as Manasseh was brought to repentance, surely no one need despair!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3354

“Hearts belong to God and He has the keys and opens them—sweetly opens them.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3442
“The heart of Christ was opened by the spear, and often the heart of the Truth of God is revealed by the opposition brought to bear against it.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3559
“Intercession is an instinct of the renewed heart. When the Believer find that he is safe, he must pray for his fellow men.”—CHS—Volume 59, Sermon #3377
“It is the joy of some of us that we belong altogether to Christ. We would not have another honor—we wish to live to Him, loving Him and serving Him as long as we have any being!”—Volume 60, Sermon #34356

“A man leaves father and mother, and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh—but what shall I say of the great mystery of this glorious Lover who left His Father’s house and cleaved unto His Church—and became one flesh with her that He might lift her up and set her upon His own throne, that she might reign with Him as the Bride, the Lamb’s Wife?”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514

“If there were only one unsaved soul now remaining in London, why, the whole Church would be awake and in earnest to pray for that one soul! But when I say to you that, Sabbath after Sabbath, these aisles are thronged, and these pews, too, and that yet a very large proportion of the congregation remain unconverted—why, you hear it and you say, “Well, it is a very sad fact”—but it does not impress your hearts!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3364

“The spear let loose the blood and water from the heart of Jesus, and the spear of persecution lets loose the Gospel—and compels Christian men who might have rested in inglorious ease to go forward and laboriously dispense the Gospel of salvation, telling the Grace of God to perishing men!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3559

“Faith, then, not only sees Jesus when He is corporeally absent, and sees Him without corporeal eyes, but sees Him when to sense it seems quite impossible that Jesus should be there!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3443
“I cannot always get to God, I know, but I at least hope I may groan until I do.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3464

“I believe the perseverance of the saints to be the very gem of the Gospel!... In this my soul rejoices, that I have a salvation to preach to you which, if you receive it, will effectually save you if your hearts are given to Christ and will keep you, and preserve you, and bring you into the eternal Kingdom of His Glory.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3362

“The history of the Church of God is an aggregation of histories, all of them miraculous, for the Christian Church is a miracle so far as its life is concerned—it is life in the midst of death—not only life in the sepulcher, but life in the very midst of death itself.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3423
“No saint shall be tempted beyond the proper measure—and the limit is fixed by a tenderness which never deals a needless stroke!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3388

“So, too (but let no man turn this into evil), the very sin of men which does wound Christ becomes the means of magnifying God’s Grace! Though it is a vile thing to say, ‘Let us sin that Grace may abound,’ yet is it a most glorious Truth of God that where sin abounds, Grace does much more abound!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3559
“There is an everlasting consolation for the Church in those grand Doctrines of Grace revealed to us in Covenant, such as Election, Particular Redemption, Effectual Calling, Final Perseverance, and the Faithfulness of God. Resting in His love, God forbid that we should ever keep back these grand Truths—they are the wells of salvation from which we rejoice to draw the Water of Life!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514

“If we have helped the poor and have only received ingratitude, let us be very thankful that it proves that our reward is not here! If we labor for Christ and are misrepresented, let us be thankful, for again it proves that our reward is not of men and in time, but is of God and for all eternity! To have our reward, here, and our portion from men is a thing to be deprecated with tears, cries and groans! God grant us to know our riches to be of a better sort than that which the worldling covets.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3380

“Remember, however, that the only real mode of growth in faith is bythe power of the Holy Spirit. As I said at the commencement of this discourse, Peter’s growth in faith came upon him at Pentecost. And it was the same with the others of the twelve—they became new men because the Spirit’s power rested upon them.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3384

“The reason why Jesus Christ is able to forgive sin and to make unjust men just, is this—because He bears their iniquities.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3465
“There is no believing in Jesus with a proud heart! He that trusts Christ must feel himself to be guilty, and acknowledge it. He never will savingly believe till he has been thoroughly convinced of sin.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3560

“What wonders faith can work! The first saint [Abel] who entered Heaven, entered there, it is certain, by faith! It was faith that enabled him to present an acceptable sacrifice, and it was faith that presented him to Heaven. If the first who entered Heaven entered there by faith, rest assured that will be true to the last—and none will enter there but those who believe.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3478

“Oh, the power of the love of God has in governing and influencing a man! Nothing can master a strong temper, a forceful will, an obstinate disposition, or a wayward heart like the love of God!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3378

“…the best way to make a Christian happy is to make him useful, plowing the fields which God has watered, and gathering the fruits which He has ripened. A Christian Church never enjoys so much concord, love, and happiness as when every member is kept hard at work for God, every soul upon the stretch of anxiety to do good and communicate, every disciple a good soldier of the Cross, fighting the common enemy.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514

“Procrastinators are among the most hopeless of people! He that has “tomorrow” quivering on his lips is never likely to have Grace reigning in his heart.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3560
“Faith in Christ is faith in God—he that trusts the Son has accepted the witness of the Father.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3437
“My Brothers and Sisters, I believe that when kings and potentates meet in the cabinet chamber and consult together according to their ambition, a Counselor whom they never see pulls the strings and they are only His puppets.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3412
“Surely I shall not be wrong if I say that in our times the pulpit has to become the tower of the watchmen. While that is well and faithfully maintained, no assaults of the foe shall prevail!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3423
“Salvation in our case means deliverance from guilt and ruin. And this could not have been laid hold of by any measure of good works since we are not in a condition to perform any.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3479
“As the Lord lives, you must turn or burn! You must either repent or be ruined forever! May God give you wisdom to choose the better part!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3560
“Someone went to hear a certain preacher last Sunday and complained that he did not preach Christ. Another remarked that perhaps it was not the due season, but my Brothers, the due season for preaching Christ is every time you preach!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3350

“If a minister can be content to go on preaching without converts or Baptisms, the Lord have mercy upon his miserable soul! Can he be a minister of Christ who does not win souls? A man might as well be a hunter and never take any prey—a fisherman and always come home with empty nets—a farmer, and never reap a harvest!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514

“You may believe false Doctrine with great earnestness, but you will find it false for all that! You may give yourself up indefatigably to the pursuit of the wrong religion, but it will ruin your souls!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3466
“You need no other priest, but the great ‘Apostle and High Priest of our profession’! You need no mediator with God, but the one Mediator, the Man, Christ Jesus, who is also equal with God.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3442

“We ought to blame ourselves when we find our faith to be weak, but we must never commend ourselves when faith is strong. The weakness of faith is ours, but the strength of faith comes of the Holy Spirit and of Him alone.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3341

“I well might shrink from speaking thus, were it not that fidelity to your souls makes such demands that I must ring the warning. If you die without faith in Christ, behold there is a gulf fixed between you and Heaven. I do not know what that means, but I know what idea it gives to me, and should give to you. Between Heaven and Hell there is no traffic! None ever passed from Hell to Heaven!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3560

“Never doubt the true progress of the Church. Believe that, notwithstanding every discouragement that checks our progress, the cause of God goes on—it must go on and it shallgo on till King Jesus is universally acknowledged King of Kings and Lord of Lords!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514

“Young people, never imagine that all the training in the world can rid you of your evil without an earnest struggle on your own part! Don’t conceive that a mother’s prayers will give you tenderness of conscience unless you also learn of Christ for yourselves.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3355

“I do not believe in any such nonsense as that you can be responsible for other people’s souls, so that others may assist you with their vigilance. Never, I beseech you, Englishmen and Englishwomen, never be such fools as to put yourselves at the feet of a priest!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3378

“The Christian is never so much at liberty as when he is under law to Christ. He knows the difference between license and liberty. He has a liberty to do as he wills because he wills to do as God wills him to do—and herein lies the only freedom which we desire!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3388
“Do not think that yours is an extreme case because your spiritual life is one of much contest with sin. So far from being extreme, I believe it is but a specimen of the way in which the Lord deals with all His beloved ones.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3562

“I believe that in proportion as Christian people are well-instructed, the attacks of the adversary will be repelled and defeated. But if we only gather together undisciplined bodies of men and women who merely come to hear preaching, but receive little or no instruction, they will become like flocks of sheep—the prey of the wolf whenever he shall come.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3423

“A notion is abroad that if you are but earnest and sincere, you will be all right. Permit me to remind you that if you travel ever so earnestly to the north, you will never reach the south. And if you earnestly take prussic acid, you will die! And if you earnestly cut off a limb, you will be wounded. You must not only be earnest, but you must be right in it!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3466

“There is a great God above who reckons this to be among the greatest of all human crimes—that they reject His Son. We speak of unbelief very lightly, and there are some who trifle with it as if it had no moral quality at all—but God does not!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3437
“We are not to come to God and ask Him to do for us what we can do for ourselves. There is no room for the exercise of faith where reason and human strength will suffice. Faith is a vessel expressly built for the deep seas.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3562
“You were, apparently, once brave soldiers, but you deserted and went over to the enemy. Still, if you are the Lord’s people, one of the signs of God’s Grace to His Church will be the recovery of backsliders.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514

“Young men went to see the martyrdom of saints and as they saw their holy patience, they came to be Believers themselves , till dying Christians became the most powerful preachers of the Gospel and even the saints that believed were comforted by the sight of the death of the martyr—they went to see how to die, they went to learn the way to give themselves up for Christ!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3361

“How blessed it is when some Brother or Sister finds it in their heart to consecrate more of their substance than is ordinary to the Lord’s work, not grudging what they can spare, but glorying over what they can sacrifice!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3562

“I have a great many things that God has given me that I much value, but of all the things I ever had, next to His dear Son, that which I value most is the cross that is the heaviest. I have got more good out of my affliction than out of all my prosperity! I would not be without a cross for all the world!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3443
“I will venture to say—and I should not wonder that some of you will not like it to be said, that I believe it is anti-Christian and unholy for any

Christian to live with the objective of accumulating wealth…what I said was this, that to live with the objective of accumulating wealth is antiChristian.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3380

“Jesus Christ is the only food that can make His people strong for service. Feed on Him and you shall run and not be weary! You shall walk and not faint. It is meat indeed because it gives us strength that is all but boundless. It clothes a mortal man with the might of God. It makes the feeblest Christian in the Church, when he has fed upon Christ, to be as a giant to suffer or to do!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3424

“Sin is pardonable! The Lord God is merciful and gracious!…Hear Jehovah’s voice out of Heaven, ‘I, even I, am He that blots out your iniquities for My name’s sake: I will not remember your sins.’”—Volume 63, Sermon #3563
“The Lord multiplies His Grace! He is always slow to anger, but He is always lavish with His Grace.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3514
“If you are persuaded in your own soul that what you believe and what you do are acceptable to God, whether they are acceptable to man or not is of very small consequence!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3466

“I have often noticed that those who prate loudest of good works are those that have the fewest good deeds to make mention of. Like little traders in the streets with their little stock of commodities, they had need cry and advertise their wares because they have so little to sell! Whereas a diamond merchant or dealer in bullion sits still and never makes a noise at all because he has precious treasure by him.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3408

“Sin will soon prevent your enjoying the love of God. Let the Christian linger to walk disorderly and he will soon begin to talk lightly of his wickedness, and this, again, will soon stop his communion with God. Though the Christian shall not perish, yet many of his joys shall—though God will keep him so that he shall not be utterly destroyed—yet the gladsome sense of the love of God will soon depart when sin comes in to lead astray.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3378

“Your confidence in Christ, especially my dear young Friend, I trust does not depend upon the smile of your relatives. If it did, then their frown might crush it. Walk with your Savior in the lowly walk of holy confidence, and let not your faith rest in man, but in the smile of God!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3466

“Oh, how wondrous is the Sovereignty of God! The devil cannot dye a soul so scarlet in sin but what the blood of Christ can make it white as snow! Satan cannot drive a chosen sheep of Christ so far on the mountains of vanity, or into the deserts of sin, but what the Great Shepherd of the sheep can find that sheep and bring it back!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3515

“So, my Brother and Sisters, when we have confessed our own sins, and have found mercy, then we should begin to be intercessors for others! We should make confession for the sins of our families, for the sins of our city, for the sins of our country. If no longer need we plead for salvation for ourselves because we have obtained it, let us give the full force of our prayers for the benefit of others!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3484

“No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own. Christ will never go shares in our salvation.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3402
“The holier the Christian becomes, the more readily he perceives his imperfections and the wickedness of his sins. And sin, instead of becoming more bearable to a Christian, becomes growingly more and more intolerable!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3347

“‘It has pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell.’ ‘All fullness’—mark the word. ‘Fullness’ is a big word but ‘all fullness’ is bigger, and all fullness dwells in Him—that is, it is remaining in Him, always fullness and always remaining all fullness—that is the greatest word of all! He is both meat and drink, He is all that we need!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3424

“Prayer is one of the most blessed engagements and occupations of men while they are out of Heaven—to ask of the All-Bountiful One the mercies which they need. But there are some here tonight who never pray—who never really ask of God what they require. They take the attitude of supplicants, perhaps as a matter of habit, but there they are like kneeling corpses!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3389

“The Lord, when He gets men’s hearts and washes away their sins, takes them into His service, and makes those who were most ready to serve Satan become most willing to serve Him!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3515

“Dear Brothers and Sisters, you and I, if we are believers in Christ, are this day completely pardoned. There is no sin in God’s book against us. We are wholly and completely justified! The righteousness of Jesus Christ covers us from head to foot and we stand before God as if we had never sinned!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3466
“There is nothing Christ did, except the great Atoning work, which His people shall not do in and through Him, by the exercise of their faith!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3562

“Oh, this is a high mark of Grace, when the Christian expects his Lord to come—and lives like one that expects Him every moment! If you and I knew tonight that the Lord would come before this service was over, in what state of heart should we sit in these pews? In that state of heart we ought to be!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3551

“Brothers, take care that you use your talents for your Master, and only for your Master. It is disloyalty to our Master if we wish to be soulwinners in order to be thought to be so! It is unfaithfulness to Jesus if we even preach sound Doctrine with the view to be thought sound, or pray earnestly with the desire that we may be known as praying men.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3350

“It matters not how great the growth of a Christian, nor how mature his experience, he still owes all he has and all he is to his union with Christ—he cannot keep his own soul alive!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3444
“There is no honor in the whole universe—no, not the honor of the angels, themselves—that can exceed the honor that is put upon the man who believes in Jesus Christ.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3402
“We must attempt some things which look like impossibilities, or we shall never keep up the esprit of the true soldiers of the Cross.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3562

“You can easily learn to say a form of prayer, or to read one from a book, but a prayer that can fairly be called a cryis the fruit of Grace! The cry is the natural expression of distress. There is no hypocrisy in a cry. When one is sorely sick and ready to die, and cries out in anguish, it is the genuine expression of an oppressed spirit! God always teaches His children to pray such prayers as those.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3515

“Swelling words have been spoken and great attempts taken in hand to renovate society, but you can never renovate society till you have renovated the individual members who compose society!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3467

“I would like to see you, my dear Friends who are poor, feeling that out of your poverty it is your privilege to give continually to Him who loved you and gave Himself for you, not casting the burden of God’s work upon the few rich that may be among us, but every man honestly taking his share in the Church’s burden, which, indeed, is not her burden, but her privilege and her delight! I would like to see you bring in your gifts to God’s treasury, not because you are asked to do so, or prompted, or driven to it, but because you love to do it out of love to Him.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3380

“The true spirit of a Christian is perpetual thankfulness.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3424
“But the Church had to suffer from something which excelled heresy because it was the aggregation of heresy,superstition, and apostasy. I mean the spread of Popery.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3361

“Christ can teach the blasphemer to pray! He can take the profane into His school and teach them all to cry—and what all the clergy and ministry in the land could not do, namely, teach a man to pray one sincere prayer—God the Holy Spirit can do to the very offscouring and the scum of the universe when once He comes to deal with them in the way of Grace!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3515

“How watchful we ought to be against unbelief, for of all sins, this is one of the most heinous.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3562

“We are told that as we are born-again, we are to consider ourselves as newborn babes, and are to desire the unadulterated milk of God’s Word, that we may grow thereby. It is not enough to be alive—we should desire to grow. To be saved is a great blessing—we ought not, however, to be contented with being barely saved—we should seek after the Graces of the Spirit and the excellent work of God within us.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3485

“It is the preaching of the Cross of Jesus that is to make the world new! It is not the philosophies of men, but the Wisdom of God which effects the change. In the Presence of Christ your philosophies must sink into darkness as stars in the presence of the sun.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3467

“The Law of God is such a Law that Adam failed to keep it, though innocent. How, then, shall you keep it while imperfect? It is a spiritual Law, a Law touching not only our actions, but your words and your thoughts—how can you keep it? And yet, if you keep it not, it brandishes its great whip with the thongs and brings it down upon the conscience with terrible effect. If you keep not the Law, remember the sentence, ‘Cursed is everyone that continues not in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them.’”—Volume 59, Sermon #3355 “Repentance and faith are two inseparable companions—they flourish or decay together like the two arms of the human body. If faith could enter Heaven, repentance would certainly pass the gate at the same time.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3336

“To walk on water is not an essential characteristic of faith, but to pray when you begin to sink, is. To do great wonders for Christ is not indispensable to your soul’s being saved, but to have the faculty of always turning the heart to Him in time of distress is one of the sure marks of Divine Grace in the soul.”—Volume 63, Sermon #3562

“When you read the newspaper, read it to see how your heavenly Father is managing the world for the good of His own children! All else—be it the disposal of a throne, the settlement of a political question, or the winning of a boat race—all else, I say, are minor things compared with the interests of the Election of Grace! All things are revolving and cooperating for good. They are working together for good to them that love God, and are the called according to the purpose of His Grace. By them He will make manifest throughout the ages unto the angels and the principalities, His manifold wisdom.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3412 “The most valorous Believer sometimes finds his faith turn to unbelief.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3444

“It may be sport to some of you to sit and hear, but it is awful as death for us to stand and preach. I mean, it is no child’s play for a man to feel, ‘I stand in God’s place to that people this night, and as though God did beseech them by me, I am to pray them, as in Christ’s stead, to be reconciled to God.’ He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3402

“If ever you get the love of God in your heart, go down on your knees and ask the Holy Spirit to always keep it there! You shall never catch this bird and shall never be able to keep it unless the Holy Spirit helps you. Oh, to be crucified with Christ! We may well desire it—to be fastened to His Cross so that we shall never again desire to wander, but feel ourselves the happy bond-slaves, the free servants, of our Lord Jesus Christ!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3378

“I believe that the harps of Heaven will be sweeter than the prayers of God’s people on earth, but then they must be very, very sweet, indeed, for a prayer that comes to the living soul in the power of the Holy Spirit has an element of Divinity about it!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3468

“I pray you, then, my dear Hearers, if you would be saved, be diligent in hearing the Gospel! I would urge you to frequent those places of worship most where there is most of Christ preached. Do not seek after eloquence, oratory, gaudy periods or grotesque observations that might amuse you. You have something else to do on the Lord’s Day besides being amused and having your ears tickled!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3389

“And what do you think? Can it be child’s play to die? To finish one’s course—to know that alterations and corrections cannot be made? Our flesh creeps at the prospect of the grave—but our soul trembles at the outlook and the judgment!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3516

“No man enters eternal life on earth, or in Heaven, as his due—it is the gift of God. We say, ‘Nothing is freer than a gift.’ Salvation is so purely, so absolutely a gift of God that nothing can be more free! God gives it because He chooses to give it according to that grand text which has made many a man bite his lip in wrath—‘I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.’”—Volume 61, Sermon #3479

“Everything that any one of us shall need between here and Heaven is ready for us, but it is all in Christ—there is not a grain of it in ourselves.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3444
“Among the choicest seasons in a Christian’s life, however, are those in which he finds himself honored ofGod inthe conversionofsoul. Those are days of Heaven upon earth!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3425

“Ah, Soul, God does listen to the chattering of cranes! I know He does, for I have read in His Word what is tantamount to that in the text [Isaiah 38:14], “He hears the young ravens when they cry.” And surely if He hears a raven’s cry and if not a sparrow falls to the ground without our Father, your prayer, though it may be very indistinct and the language, itself, may be very unworthy of the Divine ear, yet it shall command an audience and will bring down a blessing from above!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3468

“Oh, Spirit of God, bring back Your Church to a belief in the Gospel! Bring back her ministers to preach it once again with the Holy Spirit, and not striving after wit and learning. Then shall we see Your arm made bare, O God, in the eyes of all the people, and the myriads shall be brought to rally round the Throne of God and the Lamb! The Gospel must succeed! It shall succeed! It cannot be prevented from succeeding—a multitude that no man can number must be saved!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3403

“Should not the love of disciples to their Lord be stronger than the love of the husband to his wife, of the mother to her child, or of friend to friend—a love compared with which there is no love on earth to be found—a love that is strong as death?”—Volume 62, Sermon #3516 “I do not intend to speculate with my Master’s Gospel, by dreaming that I can improve it by my own deep thinking, or by soaring aloft with the philosophers! We will not, even with the idea of saving souls, speak other than the Gospel! If I could create a great excitement by delivering novel doctrine, I would abhor the thought! To raise a revival by suppressing the Truth of God is dealing deceitfully—it is a pious fraud and our Lord wants no gain which might come by such a transaction!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3350

“If the Gospel of Jesus Christ is faithfully preached, no matter by whom, if it is the whole Gospel affectionately declared, prayed over, believingly delivered, it will always glorify God’s name!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3361
“Christians should be good citizens. Though in one respect they are not citizens of this world, yet as they find themselves in it, they should seek the good of those among whom they dwell and be patterns of order.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3485

“What is my crime, if my prayer is clamorous? Did the Lord ever say He would not hear a clamorous prayer? Has not He rather told us a parable in which the woman gained by clamor from the unjust judge the vindication of her rights? What if my prayer is repetitious? Did He ever say He would not hear me because I had no variety of expression? Oh, I must not condemn what God has not condemned!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3468

“Some of us will never forget our grief for sin—it was a bitterness with which no stranger could intermeddle. We shall never forget the anguish of our soul and our deep humiliation which no ashes could sufficiently symbolize. Like the patriarch of old, we cried, ‘I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.’”—Volume 59, Sermon #3336

“If you live to His praise and rest in his love, you shall find that that love is strong as death! Instead of its growing cooler and weaker when the outward man decays, that love of yours shall get to the land of Beulah and you shall sit upon the banks of Jordan, expecting the coming of the Master and singing happy canticles and blessed love songs, even in the prospect of your departure! Love is strong as death!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3516

“One would think that even nature, itself, might lead parents to admire that which should make their children virtuous, preserve them in this life and bless them in the life to come. But such is the enmity of the human heart against Christ and His Gospel, that hundreds of parents have been monsters to their children when those children have been obedient subjects to Christ!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3347

“But, my Brothers and Sisters, bad as man is, I think he never was so bad—or rather, his badness never came out to the full so much—as when gathering all his spite, his pride, his lust, his desperate defiance, his abominable wickedness into one mouthful—he spat into the face of the Son of God, Himself!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3404

“I do believe, my dear Friends, that few will miss a blessing who hear a Gospel minister anxiously desiring to get a blessing. In these waters, men shall catch what they fish for! And if you seek earnestly after God’s blessing, you shall find it! Thirst for it! Pant for it! Long for it! You already have the beginning of it, for to desire Grace is an evidence that you have Grace in a measure! And to seek earnestly Christ is already to have something from Christ—a foretaste of the feast they enjoy who find Him!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3389

“Never neglect the means, but never depend upon the means. Go above the means to the God of the means, and do not be satisfied with the mere means of Grace, but try to get the Grace of the means!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3444
“Your religion is not of a first-class order if it is altogether looking at your practice, and not at the finished and perfect work of Christ.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3469

“I think the idea prevails among pious people that everything we do for Christ ought to be done in a quiet, gentle, soft, milk-sop fashion—that we must pray in a very smooth tone of voice, speak in a whisper and sing so as not to shock anybody’s nerves! This seems to me to be totally inconsistent and utterly alien to the spirit of genuine Christianity!”—Volume 62, Sermon #3516

“We overcome sin through the blood of the Lamb applied to us day by day by the hyssop of faith. Brethren, if you neglect your faith, you will soon find that, struggle as you will, to advance in other Graces, your struggles will be all in vain. Faith, faith, faith—this is the reservoir and if this is not well filled, the pipes will soon run dry.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3384

“Every Christian should make it to be one of the grand aims of his life, if not the grandest, to bring others to reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3425

“I think experienced Christians begin to dread their joy and to expect blessings from their sorrows. When things apparently go bad, they know they really go well, and when things apparently go well, we are very apt to fear and tremble for all the good which God makes to pass before us and fear, lest in the dead calm, there may lurk some mischief to our souls.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3379
“If I knew that I should see my Lord before another sun should rise, how would I preach? I ought to preach just in that way as though He were sure to come at once and there could be no doubt about it!”—Volume 63, Sermon #3551

“Persecution is unprincipled. It violates the law of love to which we owe a supreme allegiance. But true faith never can hold fellowship with infidelity! Vital godliness must be at hostility with all unrighteousness of men.”—Volume 62, Sermon #3516

“Religion is the one thing necessary to us all. It is the one thing necessary to the minister. Without true religion in his heart, he is an impostor!... But religion is also the one thing necessary for the hearers—so necessary, indeed, that if they have it not, all the sermons and prayers in the world will be but as fuel for their condemnation!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3469

“A general confession may be very proper in the congregation, but it is only acceptable to God as it becomes an individual and particular confession in the case of each one using the words.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3355

“Do I seem to you to talk sarcastically? Be it admitted I do! Were it possible for me to kick this idea of human merit like a football round the world, Sirs. Were it possible to set it in the pillory of scorn and pelt it with I know not what of filth, I would feel that I had the Apostle Paul standing by my side and saying, ‘What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yes, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.’ And I would hear him say of his own righteousness, ‘I count it as dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him.’ He could not have taken a coarser figure, nor one which expressed more thoroughly his hearty contempt of everything like self-righteousness—‘I count it as dung that I may win Christ, and be found in Him.’”—Volume 60, Sermon #3408

“Now, when ought a man to do this [e baptized]? It is a duty. When and how ought he to do it? I answer that as soon as ever a soul has believed in Christ,its next duty is toconfess inChrist. It ought never to be delayed. And where it has been, the delay ought to be made up by a speedy obedience. ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3405
“This is the triumph of God’s Grace—not that He takes men to Heaven as we might carry machines there, but that He expressly acts upon the human mind, leaves it as free as ever it was, and yet makes it perfectly obedient to His own will!”—Volume 61, Sermon #3469

“Let us pray for holiness and we shall get happiness! Let us ask to be heavenly-minded and we shall get Heaven! There is no fear about our joy if we can get holiness. Very much in proportion as we shall become fit for Heaven shall we have days of Heaven upon earth. ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3425

“Why does the Lord deal roughly with His servants when He means to bless them? Is it not to keep them sober? High spiritual joys have about them an intoxicating element to our poor nature. ‘Lest I should be exalted above measure,’ said the Apostle Paul, ‘there was given unto me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me.’ Sometimes the trial comes before the mercy, sometimes with the mercy, sometimes after the mercy—but a trial and a high degree of spiritual joy are usually wedded together so that when you get the one—you may look out of the window for the other.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3379

“At this present moment I suppose that not less than 300 of our sons that have been borne upon our knees are preaching the Gospel while I am preaching here—I mean ministers of Christ preaching the Gospel. Besides that, all round these streets are our Evangelists preaching at street corners. There ought to be more of them. Some of you that come to hear me on Sunday nights ought not to come. If you have got the Grace of God in your heart, come and get enough spiritual meat to feed you, but remember that London is perishing for the lack of the Gospel! How dare you, then, sit still to enjoy the Gospel while men are perishing?”—Volume 63, Sermon #3551

“Where there is not a thorough separation from the world, there is cause to fear there is no close union to Christ. The best part of our confession to Christ lies in the practically giving up everything which Christ would not sanction, and the following out of whatever Christ would ordain!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3405

“The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death. If we are not laborers, we are not true stewards, for we are to be examples of diligence to the household. I like Adam Clarke’s precept—‘Kill yourselves with work and pray yourselves alive again.’ We shall never do our duty either to God or man if we are sluggards.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3350

“Do men tell us there are no such things as miracles? Why, every Christian is a living reply to their allegation! No such thing as a miracle? The existence of a Believer from day to day is a string of miracles which the laws of Nature will not account for. Every Christian will tell you that his experience is miraculous from the beginning of his faith to this day, and so will it continue to be to the end. ”—Volume 61, Sermon #3470 “There is nothing in the world that makes so much stir as preaching Christ!...I know not why it is, but so it is, that even those who dislike the Gospel will come to hear it! And though sometimes they set their teeth together and curse the men that preach it, yet they come again—they cannot help it.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3361

“Men are not saved by their works—we declare that plainly enough—but if faith does not producegood works, it is a dead faith and it leaves you a dead soul to become corrupt and to be cast out from the sight of the Most High. ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3390

“Perfect obedience is what Jesus Christ has a right to claim from us! Oh, that He would give us Grace that He might receive according to His rights! Is there any duty, my Brothers and Sisters, which you have not yet fulfilled and which presses upon your conscience? Or is there some other duty on which your conscience is but partially enlightened? Ask for a quickened conscience and when you obtain it, never tamper with it!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3355

“This is a flimsy age—a superficial age. It has its waves of religious excitement, but they are all on the surface. We have not many of those great ground-swell waves where the ocean of manhood seems to heave up from the very bottom. These are the waves that work wonders for men and glorify God. May we have many such in our own souls!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3426

“Never does a child of God pass through trial without some special provision being made for him during his time of need.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3379

“It is impossible for God to deal towards His people contrary to the spirit which breathes in the two Immutable things in which it is impossible for Him to lie, and by which He has given strong consolation to those who have fled for refuge to the hope which is set before them in the Gospel.”—Volume 60, Sermon #3412

“The God that answers by fire is a God who shall reign over this world! And the God of Christianity is that God of fire! Hence, Beloved, since you are expected to operate upon others by your life and teaching, you must not dream of concealing your faith, for your religion requires it. ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3405

“Whenever Believers permit the fires of sin to burn, they are made, before long, to cast the ashes of repentance upon their heads and shrink into the dust.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3336

“I read the other day that some of us were the echoes of a dead Puritanism, that we were not abreast of the age and were preaching a faith that was practically dead! Sirs, they lie in their throats that say so, and some of them know it, for the Gospel is no more dead than they are, nor half so much!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3361

“If you will have the world, you shall have it—but you shall not have Christ. ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3426

“‘What are you doing, now?’ said a good old Divine to a Brother who was dying. He said, ‘I am doing now what I have done many times before in health—I am taking all my good works and all my bad works—indeed, they are so much alike that I can scarcely tell which is which—and I am tying them all in one bundle and throwing them overboard as fast as I can! And I am just clinging to Christ with all my heart and all my soul.’This is the only way of safety. None but Jesus! Nothing of yours—not one brass farthing—but Christ, Christ, Christ—Christ at the top and the bottom, at the beginning and the end, first, last and throughout!’”—Volume 59, Sermon #3384

“You tell me you trust in God, and yet there has been no change of life in you! Oh, Sirs! Unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3390
“Until I see that the Lord Jesus Christ has set up a theater, or planned a miracle play, I shall not think of emulating the stage or competing with the music hall! If I do my own business, by preaching the Gospel, I shall have enough to do.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3350

“If you will follow your doubts and fears to their roots, you will find that they grow from the dunghill of your sins—and when the Lord cleanses out the evil of our hearts and creates a new spirit within us, the oil of joy perfumes the soul and we are glad in His salvation.”—Volume 59, Sermon #3341

“ All the doctrines of the Bible have a tendency, when properly understood and received, to foster the Christian’s joy. ”—Volume 60, Sermon #3406

“Why those stakes, those dungeons and those racks? Why the snows of Piedmont dyed scarlet with human gore? Why the glens of Scotland marked with the lurking places of the saints? Because this world hates the people of God!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3347“We give the Lord some scanty five or ten minutes, or a quarter of an hour, whereas our Puritan forefathers prayed sometimes for hours! But it would matter little about the time if we did but give the spirit…Oh, that we wrestled with the Angel and prevailed! My Brothers and Sisters, we have, everyone of us, something to take before God in prayer—and we rob the church of our contributions to her treasury of intercession if we do not put our share into it!”—Volume 59, Sermon #3355

“You are a wife—you ought not to be an untidy, idle, novel-reading woman, neglecting your family duties! If so, I do not care what classes you attend, or what Prayer Meetings—you have no business to act like that—and yet profess to be a Christian!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3411
“The mercy of God, wherever it comes, makes men pray. You never bend your knees and yet you say you trust in God’s mercy? Oh, Sir, you are deceiving your own soul!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3390

“The great question is, ‘What say the Scriptures? What does the Old Book say?’ If it does not teach that the salvation of a sinner is altogether by Grace and not of works, it does not teach anything at all! And there are no words in any language that mean anything! I must be made to believe that black is white and that God has purposely and willfully written a book to deceive us, before I can believe salvation to be by works!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3408

“Oh, that Doctrine of Election! I wish some of you would acquaint yourselves with it in the Psalmody of the Church, rather than in the wrangling of the schools! It is a tree that puts forth its luxuriance in the tropical climate of Divine Love—but it looks dwarfed and barren in the arctic regions of human logic!”—Volume 60, Sermon #3406

“Oh, that every sinner here were led to resign himself, now, to the Holy Spirit’s will, for He would lead him to the Cross at once! The Holy Spirit never leads a man into self-righteousness, never leads him to put his trust in sacraments, but leads him right away to the feet of Jesus. May the Holy Spirit guide you and all of us there, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord! Amen.”—Volume 61, Sermon #3483