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30 JUNE (PREACHED ON THANKSGIVING DAY, 29 JULY 1784) A great and underserved mercy ‘Rejoice with trembling.’ Psalm 2:11SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Isaiah 2:1–5 Rejoice that during the war we were favoured with peace at home. I have nothing to say either of the grounds of the war or the terms of the peace in aContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

June 29th Direction of discipline And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:30. Jesus did not say that everyone must cut offContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

June 29 “There we saw the giants.” (Num. 13:33.) YES, they saw the giants, but Caleb and Joshua saw God! Those who doubt say, “We be not able to go up.” Those who believe say, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able.”Giants stand for great difficulties; and giantsContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

29 JUNE (PREACHED ON THANKSGIVING DAY, 29 JULY 1784) Reverent joy: his greatness, our unworthiness ‘Rejoice with trembling.’ Psalm 2:11SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 2:1–12 This psalm is a prophecy of the establishment of the Redeemer’s kingdom in defiance of all the opposition raised against it. God had declared the decree and therefore the heathens andContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

June 28th Apprehended by God If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended. Phil. 3:12. Never choose to be a worker; but when once God has put His call on you, woe be to you if you turn to the right hand or to the left. We are not here toContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”