GRACE TRUTH MINISTRIES We are a ministry declaring God's Grace in Truth.

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WILLIAM TIPTAFT HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE	JOHN KERSHAW THE RIVER OF GOD	HENRY SANT A SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
EANEST ROE THE MIGHTY WORKER AND HIS GRACIOUS WORK	ROBERT TRAILL CHRIST DID NOT DIE IN VAIN	J. C. PHILPOT THE LORD'S INVITATION TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
ROBERT HAWKER AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH	ROBERT HAWKER CHRIST GLORY BEFORE THE WORLD WAS	ROBERT HAWKER PERSUADING THEM CONCERNING JESUS

I dare say I shall be accounted a fool for spending my money and time for nought. The worldlings about here begin to think there is something particular in my religion that induces me to give up my comfortable house and living, and share the burdens with the poor. Religion is worth nothing, if there be not a power in it. (William Tiptaft)

TOBIAS CRISP FAITH THE FRUIT OF UNION	J.K.POPHAM THE CITY OF GOD IMMOVABLE	J. C. PHILPOT WHAT IS IT THAT SAVES A SOUL
J. C. PHILPOT THE ETERNAL REFUGE	FRANCIS COVELL HE SPARED NOT HIS SON
WILLIAM ROMAINE THE LIFE, WALK AND TRIUMPH OF FAITH

When one says such things as these, immediately the cry goes up: "Antinomianism!" "Antinomianism!" What does that word "Antinomian" mean? It is from the Greek, "anti" meaning "against", and "nomos" meaning "law" - "against law". We are said to be against the law, but that is not true. We are for the lawful use of the law. That is an important difference. We do not say that men are now free to live as they will, to do as they please, to be licentious; we do not say that for a moment, and so we dispute this charge; we are not Antinomians. We are not for immorality. When others accuse us of being Antinomians, they are really saying that we are teaching that men can lead the most immoral lives, but we do not say that! The charge is a false one. All that we are seeking to do is to make a proper distinction between law and gospel, and how important that is. (Henry Sant)

J. J. WEST MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE
	WILLIAM GADSBY THE SENTENCE OF DEATH IN OURSELVES	HENRY SANT THE FAITH OF GOD'S ELECT
HENRY SANT THE LAWFUL USE OF THE LAW	HENRY SANT THE GOSPEL WAY OF HOLINESS	JOSEPH IRONS CHRIST GLORIFIED

Moreover, it is a peculiarity of God's people that they cannot mingle with the Heathen, and so peculiar in their worship that they cannot be satisfied with forms and externals. They must worship God in spirit and in truth. They cannot go to the crucifix and the wafer as if these were gods, and take up with the semi-popery with which dear old England is poisoned. No, they would as soon fly to Paganism, or worship the devil himself as do this. (Joseph Irons)

JOSEPH IRONS DISCRIMINATING GRACE	J. K. POPHAM ENTREATY FOR THE WORD OF TRUTH	THOMAS BRADBURY FILTHY GARMENTS
THOMAS BRADBURY SIN NOT SEEN	J . K. POPHAM STRAYING SHEEP RESTORED	J. K. POPHAM GOD'S WAY PERFECT
JOSEPH IRONS PORTRAIT OF A CHRISTIAN	JOSEPH IRONS ELECTION	JOHN KERSHAW THE ROCK OF SALVATION

Not long ago I heard of what I call the blasphemy of blasphemies uttered from a Wesleyan pulpit, that Almighty God Himself could never overcome the human will! With the blasphemy of such an assertion there is the rankest folly. None but a religious imbecile would utter so base a contradiction in terms. Surely a disciple of Jesus Christ could not offend the ears of the Father's children, or insult the Almighty with so infamous an utterance. (Thomas Bradbury)

JOSEPH IRONS JEHOVAH HONORED	JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN CHRIST RECEIVES SINNERS	J. K. POPHAM FORM OF SOUND WORDS
JOSEPH IRONS JUSTIFICATION	J. K. POPHAM THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL	JOSEPH IRONS ROCK OF AGES
JOHN KERSHAW TRUE GROUND OF REJOICING	THOMAS BRADBURY COMFORT YE	THOMAS BRADBURY NOT CAST AWAY

Christ receives the elect from the Father as his children, he receives them as his sheep; we are the sheep of his pasture and the work of his hands, and he will grant us the promised fruit. Says he, "My sheep hear my voice;" they have felt my my love, my grace, my mercy: "My sheep hear my voice, and know me." (Joseph Chamberlain)

J. J. WEST COVENANT PEOPLE SAVED	SAMUEL TURNER BOND FAMILY CONFUTED	J. R. ANDERSON TRUE RELIGION DESCRIBED
JOHN WARBURTON THE RIGHTEOUS GLAD IN THE LORD	JOSEPH IRONS SECURE PROPERTY	THOMAS BRADBURY COVENANT RELATIONSHIP
ELI ASHDOWN ONE SPIRIT IN CHRIST AND HIS SEED	JOHN WARBURTON GOD'S GREAT GIFT	J. K. POPHAM OUR NEED OF PRAYER

"But ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep, as I said unto you." That is why they did not, why they could not believe! This settles the point, and upsets the abominable heresy so popular in England, of man's free-will. As a Churchman, I denounce such a heresy from the pulpit. "No man can come to me, except the Father, which hath sent Me, draw him." (J. J. West)

J. J. WEST SOVEREIGN TEACHING	THOMAS BRADBURY THE PRAYER OF JABEZ	JOSEPH IRONS ETERNAL REDEMPTION
JOSEPH IRONS THE GOSPEL EXHIBITION	GREY HAZLERIGG THE PRAYER OF JABEZ	GREY HAZLERIGG A PEOPLE FORMED BY AND FOR GOD
J. K. POPHAM SAINTS GATHERED TO THE LORD	ELI ASHDOWN CHRIST FOUNTAINS OF WATERS	JOHN VINALL CHRIST THE ROOT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Oh, when I come before my precious Christ, and hold communion with Him, how delightful it is to behold Him with the reins of government in His own hands, moving with a touch this way or that way the hearts of all men, controlling all affairs, great and small.(Joseph Irons)

J. J. WEST RESURRECTION POWER	THOMAS BRADBURY JUSTIFICATION	THOMAS GOODWIN ELECTED IN CHRIST
JOSEPH IRONS CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH	J. J. WEST THE TRUE CHURCH	AUGUSTUS TOPLADY GOOD NEWS
J. K. POPHAM THE ATONEMENT	J. K. POPHAM FAITH AND REPENTANCE	J. K. POPHAM THE TRINITY

We are often told by proud, pompous man, that salvation is within the grasp of every man, and that it is the duty of all men to whom the gospel comes to have saving repentance towards God and saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that if man has not a natural capability of doing these things, God would be unjust in punishing him for sin. Why, were it possible for the devil to feel shame, he would be ashamed of such a doctrine as that. (William Gadsby)

JOHN BOOTH LOVED AND WASHED	WILLIAM GADSBY THE GLORY OF GOD'S GRACE	J. J. WEST JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE
ROBERT HAWKER THE SURE PROGRESS OF GRACE	FRANCIS COVELL THE FOUNDATION OF GOD IS SURE	J. J. WEST THE GODLY MAN'S PRAYER
WILLIAM PARKS FREE GRACE	JOSEPH IRONS FAME OF JESUS	THOMAS BRADBURY THE LORD'S PRAYER

And, on the contrary, all self-denial, outward sanctification, mortification of the flesh, long prayers, and all the good works of the Arminian catalogue, are nothing but counterfeits and imitations of the fruits of the Spirit, and will therefore leave their deluded owners to the just vengeance of Him who is a consuming fire.(J. C. Philpot)

JOSEPH IRONS THE ROOT AND FRUIT OF CHRISTIANITY	EDMUND ROBINS THE BENEFITS OF THE MERCY SEAT	WILLIAM GADSBY THE LONG-SUFFERING OF THE LORD
WILLIAM PARKS BLOOD IN ITS RELATION TO SIN	J. J. WEST SINNERS BROUGHT TO CHRIST'S BANQUETING HOUSE	AUGUSTUS TOPLADY CAVEAT AGAINST UNSOUND DOCTRINES
JOSEPH HATTON HOLY SPIRIT LIGHT OF SCRIPTURES	THOMAS BRADBURY WHAT MANNER OF LOVE	JOHN E. HAZELTON THE HOPE OF GLORY

But, although it is true, that all the sins of God's elect are already pardoned for Christ's sake, yet this, good news as it is, will not satisfy a poor perishing sinner. No; it is not his knowing that the sins of the elect are pardoned; he wants to know personally that his sins are pardoned; and nothing short of this will satisfy him.(James Hallett)

JOSEPH IRONS SUPREMACY	JAMES HALLETT REPENTANCE	WILLIAM PARKS RICHES OF HIS GRACE
J. K. POPHAM THE AFFLICTED HEARD	JOSEPH IRONS OFFENCE OF THE CROSS	JOSEPH IRONS PASTORAL CARE
JOHN VINALL REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD	JOHN VINALL GOD LOVED THE WORLD

We noticed, too, that the foundation was so sure, it was the free, eternal, electing, and unchangeable love of God; this would bring out His elect from all places where they had been scattered, and however they had been drawn away by or sunk in error, for the Son of God declared that the time was coming, and then was, when the dead should hear His voice, and they that heard should live. (John 5:25)(Francis Covell)

ELI ASHDOWN THE SETTLED WORD	WILLIAM PARKS PERSEVERANCE	J. K. POPHAM RICHES OF CHRIST
JOSEPH IRONS PRACTICAL GODLINESS	JOSEPH IRONS ADVOCATE ON HIGH	THOMAS BRADBURY GRACE AND GLORY
JAMES HALLETT THE GOOD WORD OF THE LORD	J. C. PHILPOT ETERNAL LIFE A GIFT	WILLIAM PARKS SELF DENIAL

There we find that He has in sovereign mercy and discriminating grace, imputed to and laid upon the beloved Surety all the sin and transgression of His chosen inheritance, and transferred to them all the obedience, righteousness, and holiness of His beloved Son, placing it to their account as their justification; and here it is that they are exclusively righteous before God.(John Warburton)

JOSEPH IRONS THE STANDARD OF ORTHODOXY	JOSEPH IRONS GOD'S GLORIOUS WORK	THOMAS BRADBURY THE DEVIL, DOG, AND DELIVERER
DANIEL SMART IGNORANT OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS	WILLIAM PARKS UNFAILING ADVOCATE	JOSEPH HATTON ETERNAL SALVATION
JOSEPH HATTON IMMUTABLE	MATTHEW WELLAND THE EVERLASTING LOVE	JOSEPH IRONS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

Oh, my soul, thy covenant God and Father alone can speak the reconciling word, melt thee down at His feet, and bless thee with the rich and overpowering sense of His paternal affection. As the blessed Spirit of adoption moves within, sweetly witnessing to the Father's love and faithfulness, and testifying of the Saviour's love, blood, beauty, and bounty, a little "bubbling up" is known and felt, and the child dares to be free in the presence of the Majesty of heaven, and lisp, "My Father."(Thomas Bradbury)

J. J. WEST THE ASCENDED CONQUEROR	J. C. PHILPOT THE HEAVENLY RACE	JOSEPH IRONS SANCTIFICATION
WILLIAM PARKS RECONCILIATION	J. K. POPHAM COVENANT OF GRACE	THOMAS BRADBURY PREDESTINATION, PATRIMONY, AND PRESERVATION
J. K. POPHAM INSHINING OF THE GOSPEL	J. J. WEST THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST	FRANCIS COVELL THE GOOD THING PROMISED

Them are indeed certain things in religion which human wisdom can attain to. A man by reasoning upon evidences may be persuaded of the truth of revelation; by comparing Scripture with Scripture and bringing forward numerous texts, he may be fully persuaded, in his natural judgment, of the truths of the doctrine of grace. He may see election, predestination and all the doctrines connected with divine sovereignty, clearly revealed in Scripture, so as to give his most unwavering assent and consent to them. He may make many sacrifices in their behalf; he may hear no ministers but those that preach them; he may associate with no persons but those that profess them; he may write books in their defence; he may maintain the strongest arguments from the Word of God that they are true; yet live and die in perfect ignorance of them as made known to his soul by special revelation.(J. C. Philpot)

JOHN WARBURTON FAITHFULNESS OF THE LORD'S WORD	J. C. PHILPOT THE GOSPEL THE POWER OF GOD	JOSEPH IRONS SOVEREIGNTY OF JEHOVAH
WILLIAM GADSBY GREAT THINGS DONE	WILLIAM GADSBY NOT WILLING ANY SHOULD PERISH	THOMAS BRADBURY CHOSEN AND CALLED AND CARED FOR
JAMES HALLETT FAITH OF ABRAHAM	JOSEPH IRONS FORERUNNER	J. J. WEST SPIRITUAL DESIRES

What an unspeakable mercy it is that God raises up and sends forth men to preach, and what a mercy that poor sinners can come and go to hear it; for how many places there are where there is none to speak the word of life, and where thousands sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, not having any to preach it. What follows? What thousands we see in this state, if we look abroad from this favored land! "It is a people," says God, "of no understanding; therefore He that made them will not have mercy on them, and He that formed them will show them no favour." (Isa. 27:11) Blessed are your eyes if they see, and your ears if they hear.(Francis Covell)

J. K. POPHAM CERTAINTY OF THINGS BELIEVED	ROBERT HAWKER ALL BLESSINGS TRACED TO THEIR SOURCE	WILLIAM HUNTINGTON THE MUSIC AND ODOURS OF SAINTS
WILLIAM PARKS ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD	WALTER BROOKE SAVED TO THE UTTERMOST	FRANCIS COVELL PREACH THE WORD
THOMAS BRADBURY IN CHRIST JESUS	JOSEPH IRONS SUBSTITUTION	B. A. RAMSBOTTOM COVENANT SALVATION

Where men will not regard a faithful ministry it is a sign that the Lord is not with them, let their outward deportment be what it may. The beauty and strength of a people consists in preserving that tender union one with another, and with Christ as the living Head. If it pleases God to give his blessing, his presence, and to prosper his cause in any place, it will be displayed by the arm of his strength carrying on the work through all opposition. And he who has begun this will manifestly carry it on to the horrible confusion of all opposers and untender professors. (Phil. 1:6) (James Bourne)

JAMES BOURNE FREE GRACE	JOHN WARBURTON LOVINGKINDNESS OF GOD	FRANCIS COVELL CALLED BY THE GOSPEL
J. J. WEST NAMES WRITTEN IN HEAVEN	JAMES BOURNE WATCHMEN	THOMAS BRADBURY VESSELS OF WRATH AND VESSELS OF HONOR
JOSEPH IRONS PERPETUAL WAR	JOSEPH HATTON ACCUSERS OF GOD'S ELECT	J. K. POPHAM ALTOGETHER LOVELY

How I have admired that Word often--"Not by might, nor by power;" (Zech. 4:6) and to prove to us that the Word of God is sufficient for everything in the great work of salvation, when Peter is giving a simple statement as to what men are by nature, and what the Son of God came to do in order to save sinners, as he is declaring all the truth of God, what a savour of life unto life (2 Cor. 2:16) it is made to many thousands who cry out, "Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved?" (Acts 2:37) "The Word" wanted nothing added to it, you see; no persuasion of man. Again, when Stephen stands before the council, what does he say or do? Why, he simply rehearses the truth from the time of Abraham down to the day on which he was speaking; and, hearing those simple, plain truths, they were "cut to the heart, and gnashed upon him with their teeth; and, stopping their ears, they ran upon him with one accord and cast him out of the city and stoned him;" thus proving "the Word" to be to them "a savour of death unto death." (2 Cor. 2:16) (Francis Covell)

ELI ASHDOWN BURIAL AND RESURRECTION	DANIEL SMART PRAYER OF JABEZ	MATTHEW WELLAND GOD'S REMEDY FOR SIN
J. J. WEST FREE PARDON	J. K. POPHAM FIGHT OF FAITH	JOSEPH IRONS CHRISTIAN WARFARE
JOSEPH IRONS DEITY REVEALED	JAMES HALLETT DEATH IN ADAM LIFE IN CHRIST	THOMAS BRADBURY PERFECT ONENESS

The free-willers, the modern evangelicals, and the sandimanians, whose views upon the question the Plymouth Brethren have adopted, and a host of nondescript heretics, are all at sea upon this vital point, and are either in the abyss of darkness or soaring upon the crest of giddy presumption. I most solemnly warn my readers against a free-will belief, or a mere intellectual assent to Scripture truths as being one and the same. (William Parks)

FRANCIS COVELL NOT AS MANY THAT CORRUPT WORD OF GOD	MATTHEW WELLAND SPIRITUAL THIRST	JOSEPH ORTON A BETTER HOPE
JOSEPH IRONS INTERCESSOR HEARD	J. J. WEST CHRIST INTERCESSORY FOR HIS PEOPLE	THOMAS BRADBURY SAINTS INVENTORY
WILLIAM PARKS TRUE JUDGMENT	J. K. POPHAM NO CONDEMNATION	WILLIAM PARKS JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH AS OPPOSED TO WORKS

Now the law given by Moses pointed to redemption, to salvation. There was a priest to stand between God and the people; there was the atoning blood which he carried into the holiest of all; there was the incense he went in with, there was the blood of beasts, and various different ceremonies, offerings, and so forth, to set forth the Person of Christ, and redemption through Him. And, all through, we find it was redemption by another.(Joseph Orton)

J. K. POPHAM IMPERISHABLE GRACE	THOMAS BRADBURY SUFFERING AND CONSOLATION	JOHN VINALL TRUE FAITH
WILLIAM PARKS LITTLE FAITH ENCOURAGED	J. J. WEST TRIALS AND CONSOLATIONS	JOSEPH IRONS PROPITIATION
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON MOSES UNVEILED IN FACE OF CHRIST	JAMES HALLETT HEROES IN FAITH	JOHN VINALL NO OTHER FOUNDATION

Now let me pause here a moment, before I quit this head of discourse, to appeal to my hearers as I would appeal to my own conscience. To what extent--pray be honest with yourselves--to what extent is Jesus Exalted, and honored, and glorified day by day, in you and by you? (Joseph Irons)

THOMAS BRADBURY LAMB AND HIS COMPANY	JOSEPH ORTON CHURCH THE BODY	JOHN VINALL UNION AND COMMUNION
JOSEPH IRONS ABSOLUTION	J. J. WEST BLIND RECEIVING SIGHT	ROBERT HAWKER BLESSED EFFECTS OF LOVE OF GOD
SAMUEL TURNER ARMINIANISM IN THE OVEN	JOHN KAY HOLY ANOINTING	THOMAS BRADBURY ELECT SONS IN GLORY

The Arminians profess to love all mankind, and so they may, excepting those that are chosen out of it; these they hate, and no wonder, when they hate election itself; but this proves them of the world.--"The world will love its own;" the seed chosen out of it hates the world, and the world hates them; enmity is put between both seeds: (Samuel Turner)

J. K. POPHAM THE LAW DONE AWAY	WILLIAM PARKS TOTAL DEPRAVITY	JOSEPH IRONS PARTAKERS OF HIS PROMISE
THOMAS BRADBURY SAVIOUR, SPIRIT AND SEDUCER	JAMES HALLETT THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST	MATTHEW WELLAND THE GOSPEL TABLE
J. K. POPHAM THE SPIRIT'S WORK IN CONVICTION	J. J. WEST CHRIST MADE SIN FOR HIS PEOPLE	J. K. POPHAM OVERCOMING BY FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD

Jesus Christ is to be set forth in our pulpits in His Person--in His offices--in His character--in His power--and I am quite satisfied that nothing will feed the Church of God--that nothing will satisfy the hungry sheep of Christ's fold--despite all the Arminianism and notionalism of the day--but a simple setting forth of Christ to a simple people (J. J. West)

THOMAS BRADBURY ANOTHER COMFORTER	JOSEPH HATTON AN AFFLICTED AND POWERLESS PEOPLE	JOHN VINALL REGENERATION
DANIEL SMART THE ELECT PERFECTED FOREVER BY HIS ONE OFFERING	JOSEPH ORTON THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION	JOHN E. HAZELTON THE COVENANT
JOSEPH IRONS THE GOSPEL	THOMAS BRADBURY WE ARE ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED	MATTHEW WELLAND THE EXALTATION OF CHRIST

Oh! Look at that glorious, uninterrupted, unintercepted union existing between Christ and His members, the Redeemer and the redeemed. In time they appear on this wretched earth, and in the midst of the ruins of the Adam-fall they are found in their sin, filthy and corrupt. Yes, they are found, saved, cleansed, clothed, and crowned by a precious Christ, and brought by Him up to the very heights of glory, where they ever stand in His adorable person, and are seen as though they had never sinned. (Thomas Bradbury)

J. K. POPHAM IT IS FINISHED	J. J. WEST UPHOLDING POWER	JAMES HALLETT THE LORD'S SALVATION THE SINNER'S HOPE
DANIEL SMART THE ELECT SANCTIFIED BY THE FATHER PRESERVED IN CHRIST	GEORGE DOUDNEY THE LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH	J. K. POPHAM THE SPIRIT'S WORK IN GLORIFYING CHRIST
WILLIAM GADSBY ZION, THE CITY OF SOLEMNITIES	J. J. WEST THE FOUNTAIN OPENED	THOMAS BRADBURY THE GOD OF ALL GRACE

How I have watched people in my time! I have known rich men, with no children, to be some of the worst: they could not spare a shilling for anybody: they were bound up in their wealth, and never could get enough. Have I not told you, it is money, misery, and the curse of God. What a solemn plight to be in! And why do they not communicate to others? Because they have no grace to do it: grace is the gift of God to his children, "It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given." (Matt. 13:11) They do not do what is right in the sight of God and man for want of saving grace. Who maketh thee and me to differ? What have we that we have not received? Others are objects of pity: and what a mercy to differ by the reigning grace of Almighty God! (Daniel Smart)

MATTHEW WELLAND IMMANUEL'S LAND	JOSEPH IRONS THE THRONE RESUMED	JAMES HALLETT THE ABOUNDINGS OF GRACE OVER THE ABOUNDINGS OF SIN
J. J. WEST THE CHARGELESS CHURCH	JOSEPH ORTON THE PERSON OF CHRIST	JOSEPH IRONS THE RESURRECTION
JOSEPH IRONS CHRIST'S ASCENSION	DANIEL SMART GRACE REIGNS	J. J. WEST THE GREATNESS OF JEHOVAH'S POWER

This song sets forth the love, union, and communion between Christ and his church. There must be union before there is any communion. The song is written in the way of dialogue, Christ and his church conversing sweetly with each other; and the third parties introduced are the daughters of Jerusalem. Who are they? Weak believers, or babes in grace. "I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem." Here the church is speaking under a feeling sense of what she is in herself. I am black in myself, and yet in Christ all fair. "Thou art all fair, my love; there is not spot in thee." (Songs 4:7) This is a great mystery. "I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him that I am sick of love." (Songs 5:8) Do you know what love sickness is? (John Vinall)

THOMAS BRADBURY JEHOVAH-JESUS THE LOVER, HUSBAND, AND GLORIFIER OF HIS CHURCH	JOSEPH ORTON THE ELECT SAVED WITH AN EVERLASTING SALVATION	WALTER BROOKE THE POWERFUL VOICE OF JESUS
JOSEPH IRONS INVINCIBLE POWER	THOMAS BRADBURY REVEALED THINGS FOR A RESERVED REMNANT	J. K. POPHAM THE CEREMONIAL SACRIFICES SUPERSEDED BY CHRIST
J. J. WEST THE GOD-GIVEN POWER OF THE SONS OF GOD	JOHN KERSHAW BORN OF GOD	TOBIAS CRISP CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH

First of all we must speak of the Priest Himself. If I were to speak of any other priests, I should perhaps use severe language, some might think it censorious language. I do not think, however, that it is possible to be too severe or censorious, if we use the strongest language we can upon that subject. But when I speak of this glorious High Priest, whom the high priest under the law typified, and mark what is said concerning Him in this very epistle, under the Divine inspiration, I have a wide field to range over with regard to the description of His person, the excellency of His office, the superiority of His order, the completeness of His work, the great salvation perfected thereby. (Joseph Irons)

TOBIAS CRISP CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS ONLY DISCHARGE THE SINNER	WILLIAM PARKS A LIVELY HOPE	JOSEPH IRONS OUR HIGH PRIEST
THOMAS BRADBURY RIGHTEOUSNESS	JOHN WARBURTON THE HUMILITY OF GOD'S PEOPLE	J. K. POPHAM CHRIST ALL AND IN ALL
JAMES HALLETT REDEMPTION FROM DEATH	JESSE DELVES THE GOSPEL FEAST	THOMAS BRADBURY CHOSEN FROM THE BEGINNING

but what has responsibility done for me? Cursed me, killed me, condemned me, and if I am left under it only, I shall be damned to all eternity. Human responsibility before, requires of the being himself, of the man or the woman, perfect, sinless obedience, a full and satisfactory atonement. Can you do it? Have you done it? If you have not, your responsibility will curse you, your responsibility will be your destruction. Oh, methinks, if there be one tremendous howl in the bottomless pit more awful than another, one frightful shrick that thrills through the infernal regions more loudly than another, it will be "Responsibility--responsibility has brought me here." I turn from it overwhelmed with awe; I turn from it confident that I can look for nothing but curse and condemnation from creature responsibility: but when I read in my precious book that my Father hath made Jesus to be sin for me who knew no sin, that he hath laid on Him the iniquity of all His sheep, that He has made the demand of Him of payment in full of all the requisitions that stood against His Church, I turn to my Saviour's responsibility, and rejoice to know that He has paid all, conquered all, secured all, demanded all, and imparts all to His Church required for her salvation, and that under solemn and irrevocable responsibility. (Joseph Irons)

JOSEPH IRONS OUR GREAT PROPHET	WILLIAM PARKS THE SAINT'S SECURITY	MATTHEW WELLAND REPENTANCE AND REMISSION OF SINS
JOHN VINALL SALVATION IS OF THE LORD	JOSEPH HATTON THE TWO EXISTENCES, DEATH AND LIFE	JOHN KERSHAW IMMUTABILITY
JOHN E. HAZELTON THE BURNT OFFERING	TOBIAS CRISP MEN'S OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS THEIR GRAND IDOL	JOHN KERSHAW SEEING JESUS

It is, therefore, the work of the minister of Christ to take the precious from the vile and the chaff from the wheat, and show the difference between a name to live and life itself; between a sheep and a goat; between foolish virgins with their empty lamps, and wise virgins with oil in their vessels with their lamps; between him that serveth God in newness of spirit, walking in newness of life, and him that serveth God in the oldness of the letter; between those who with their mouth show much love, but at the same time covetousness bears absolute sway in their hearts, and those the apostle speaks of, saying, "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." (1 Pet. 1:8) If this is the work of a minister,--and I do not know how a man can show himself approved unto God as a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the work of truth, unless he does attend to these things (James Hallett)

DANIEL SMART THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST	JOSEPH IRONS THE ONLY OFFERING FOR SIN	J. J. WEST THE STRICKEN SAVIOUR
WILLIAM PARKS WHY MEN WILL NOT COME TO CHRIST	THOMAS BRADBURY JEHOVAH-JESUS THE PRIEST, PRINCE, AND PROTECTOR OF HIS PEOPLE	J. K. POPHAM THE RETURNING PRODIGAL
JOSEPH IRONS CHRIST OUR ONLY PRIEST	JOSEPH IRONS THE BODY OF CHRIST	JAMES BOURNE RECEIVING AND WALKING

Why shall His name be called "Jesus"? There is a blessed and powerful reason why this name should be given to Him, and that is, "because he shall save his people from their sins. " Not make them an offer and proffer of salvation, if they will accept His mercy and His grace. O no, the Lord Jesus Christ went to the end of the law for righteousness for every one of His people. (John Kershaw)

JOSEPH IRONS PERSONAL SALVATION	J. J. WEST THE MINISTRY OF THE SON OF MAN	JOSEPH HATTON THE SIN-PARDONING GOD
FRANCIS COVELL THE ELECT WERE NOT APPOINTED TO WRATH BUT TO SALVATION IN CHRIST	THOMAS BRADBURY A FORGETFUL SERVANT	WILLIAM ROMAINE THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
WILIAM ROMAINE THE DOCTRINE OF IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS DEFENDED	WILLIAM HUNTINGTON DIMESIONS OF ETERNAL LOVE	AUGUSTUS TOPLADY THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF CHRIST

Thirst, as a feeling of the soul, in a spiritual sense, is certainly indicative of divine life. It is as impossible, spiritually viewed, for a man dead in sin to thirst after a living God, as for a corpse in the grave-yard to thirst after a draught of cold water from the well. I know for myself that such a feeling as thirsting after God had not place in my bosom, until the Lord was pleased to quicken my soul into spiritual life. I had heard of God by the hearing of the ear; I had seen him in creation, in the starry sky, in the roaring sea, in the teeming earth; I had read of him in the Bible; I had learnt his existence by education and tradition; and I had some apprehensions of his holiness in my natural conscience; but as to any spiritual thirsting after him, any earnest desire to fear him, know him, believe in him, or love him,--no such experience or feeling, I can say for myself, ever dwelt in my bosom. I loved the world too dearly to look to him who made it, and myself too warmly and affectionately to seek him who would bid me crucify and mortify it. A man, therefore, I am well convinced, must be made alive unto God by spiritual regeneration, before he can experience any such sensation as is here conveyed by the figure "thirst," (J. C. Philpot)

WILLIAM ROMAINE THE SELF-EXISTENCE OF JESUS CHRIST	J. C. PHILPOT DIVINE SEPARATION	WILLIAM HUNTINGTON AND NOT BY FAITH ONLY THE UNANIMITY OF PAUL AND JAMES
THOMAS BRADBURY A NEW CREATION	J. C. PHILPOT THE POURING OUT OF THE SPIRIT UPON ZION'S OFFSPRING	MATTHEW WELLAND A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
J. K. POPHAM THE FATHER WELL PLEASED IN CHRIST	J. K. POPHAM A NEW AND LIVING WAY	JOSEPH IRONS THE ETERNAL REIGN OF ZION'S KING

THE VESSELS OF WRATH--who they are, and how they are fitted to destruction. The truth contained in these terrific words is hated and despised where the doctrine of election is tolerated. Yes, I say tolerated, because there are many who think and speak as though a sovereign God were obligated to them for their bare notice of the glorious doctrine of election. But I pity from my very heart the preacher--it matters not what his position or acquirements may be--who will keep back any truth of God's Word for the purpose of accommodating his message to any portion of his hearers. Let the testimony be with a "Thus saith the Lord," or, "It is written;" and what the Lord has said or written may I never be ashamed to declare. If God's Word reveals His mind concerning His electing a people in Christ Jesus before the worlds were framed, and has created them for the display of His own glory, and if the necessary consequence attending this marvelous, this glorious, and God-like transaction is that He has eternally reprobated others by leaving them outside the bounds of His grace, by not writing their names in the Lamb's book of life, by not redeeming them with precious blood, by not regenerating them unto life, by not bringing them into the enjoyment of His love: I say, if this be a certain consequence of God's election of a people to grace and glory, I envy not the man who dares to wrap up or hold back that which God has so clearly revealed. It is mine, however, to stand upon the glorious vantage ground of His distinguishing and discriminating truth, and declare it, though I might be forsaken of all men, knowing that a covenant-keeping God will stand by me. (Thomas Bradbury)

THOMAS BRADBURY THE SPIRIT TOOK ME UP	J. K. POPHAM UNION WITH CHRIST	JOHN WARBURTON ALL WELL WITH THE RIGHTEOUS
J. C. PHILPOT THE BENEFITS AND BLESSINGS OF UNION WITH CHRIST	JOSEPH IRONS THE KINGDOM OF GOD	THOMAS BRADBURY SAVED, REDEEMED, AND CARRIED
THOMAS BRADBURY RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION REALITIES	J. J. WEST THE HELPLESS CHURCH AND THE MIGHTY GOD	JOHN VINALL THE EVIDENCES OF BEING CHILDREN OF GOD

There is no such thing as "Progressive sanctification." It is a master-piece of the enemy. There is a "growing in grace," but there is no such thing as progressive sanctification, which some are preaching and insisting on. Was there any progressive sanctification in Abraham? Any progressive sanctification in Noah? Read his history! Any progressive sanctification in Lot? Was there any progressive sanctification in Peter? Is there any progressive sanctification in the church now? What say you who are now in this house of prayer? If you think so you are deluded by the enemy! And may the very statement I put before you, now extract from your hearts such a device of the devil. There is a growing in grace: there is an increasing in the knowledge of God--that is Scriptural--but there is no such thing as progressive sanctification. (J. J. West)

GEORGE DOUDNEY THE SPIRIT OF LIFE	J. K. POPHAM SANCTIFICATION	WILLIAM GADSBY THE CHURCH COMMENDED TO THE WORD OF GOD'S GRACE
J. J. WEST GOD'S LIGHT SEEN AND GOD'S VOICE HEARD	J. K. POPHAM ONE WITH CHRIST RISEN	THOMAS BRADBURY COVENANT REMEMBRANCE
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON THE MUSIC AND ODOUR OF SAINTS	J. C. PHILPOT THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT	THOMAS BRADBURY GLORIOUS GRACE

Now, I say that "God has given to us eternal life"--that is, to the Church, and not to another soul. We must be discriminating in the pulpit. The blood of souls stains deep! Woe be to any man who occupies such a place as I now stand in, if he "keeps back part of the price!" Woe be to him, whoever he be, if, for any consideration whatever,--be it the fear of man or anything else,--he withholds the truth! "Woe be unto you, when all men speak well of you!" (Luke 6:26) (J. J. West)

WILLIAM KRAUSE DEATH TO THE LAW, LIFE UNTO GOD	WILLIAM KRAUSE REST IN CHRIST	WILLIAM PARKS EFFECTUAL CALLING
JOSEPH IRONS INFALLIBLE COUNSEL	WILLIAM KRAUSE COVENANT SALVATION	ELI ASHDOWN PURIFYING FAITH
J. K. POPHAM CHRIST THE END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS	JOSEPH IRONS A GREAT SINNER AND A GREAT SAVIOUR	THOMAS BRADBURY JEHOVAH-JESUS, THE CONSTANT COMPANION AND FAITHFUL FRIEND OF ELECT SINNERS

I have said that all those systems which lose sight of these covenant transactions, would make this matter of salvation an after-thought of God, or they would leave the whole thing contingent upon the will of sinful men. Why, if God had sent twelve legions of angels into this world, and if rivers of tears could have run down their cheeks, as they would beseech of men to turn to the Lord, their supplication would have been fruitless. Man's will is steeled against the Lord and His truth: therefore, away with that falsehood and that error which would teach that God is standing as the suppliant before proud man, and that He is waiting till man condescends to lend an ear to Him. These things savor much, methinks of blasphemy. (William Krause)

J. J. WEST PERSONAL PARDON	JOSEPH IRONS EFFICIENCY	THOMAS BRADBURY HIS FULLNESS
WILLIAM KRAUSE THE HOPE OF THE CHRISTIAN	J. C. PHILPOT EVERLASTING CONSOLATION, AND GOOD HOPE THROUGH GRACE	MATTHEW WELLAND MORTALITY
JOHN VINALL THE ELECT'S TRANSGRESSIONS REMOVED IN THE LORD	J. K. POPHAM CHRIST'S GLORY IN THE CHURCH	JOSEPH IRONS EVERLASTING RELATIONSHIP

God never loved his people out of Christ; in fact, he never viewed them out of him. In Christ they were chosen, in Christ they were loved, in Christ they were accepted. May this truth ever be deeply graven in living letters upon our heart, that only as members of the mystical body of the Lord the Lamb do the people of God find favor in the eyes of the Father, for they are only acceptable to him as they are "accepted in the beloved." (Eph. 1:6) (J. C. Philpot)

JOHN WARBURTON GOODNESS AND MERCY	THOMAS BRADBURY COVENANT MERCY	JAMES HALLETT THE DAUGHTER OF ZION
J. C. PHILPOT THE DAY OF POWER	WILLIAM PARKS FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED	JOSEPH IRONS THE SINLESS SAVIOUR
THOMAS BRADBURY JESUS, AND HIS SALVATION	WILLIAM PARKS EVERY ONE OF THE LOST FAMILY OF GOD SAVED	THOMAS BRADBURY UNFAILING GRACE

What am I to say of the gracious enactments of the counsel of God? My Bible tells me that He ordereth all things after the counsel of His own will. Well, then, there was a counsel, an ancient counsel, a covenant settlement, positive arrangement, fixed decrees, unalterable purposes, predestinating enactments; and all must go on according to those enactments. (Joseph Irons)

J. J. WEST THE LORD GOD IS KNOWN BY GRACE ALONE	JOHN E. HAZELTON GOD WITH US	JOSEPH IRONS THE HOLY SUFFERER
JOSEPH IRONS THE INFALLIBLE PRECEPTOR	THOMAS BRADBURY I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE	WILLIAM PARKS THE TRINITY IN UNITY
J. K. POPHAM THE AUTHORITY AND EFFICACY OF THE WORD	JOHN VINALL THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST	JOSEPH IRONS CHRIST EXALTED

The "goodness and tender mercy" of God has followed us, in cutting up and putting a stop to our going about to establish a righteousness of our own. Though it may be very cutting to flesh and blood, yet it is nothing but "goodness and mercy" towards us. For such is God's love to His church and people, that they can never come with approbation into His presence but in His beloved Son. There is no access to God but in and through Christ. (John Warburton)

JOSEPH ORTON THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF GOD'S GRACE IN SALVATION	THOMAS BRADBURY THE WORLD	EBENEZER WILMSHURST REDEMPTION
JESSE DELVES THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED	JOSEPH IRONS THE INCARNATION	JOHN BOOTH THE ZEAL OF JESUS FOR GOD'S HOUSE
J. C. PHILPOT THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES, OR UNION AND COMMUNION WITH THE LORD JESUS	JOHN KERSHAW SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN CHRIST	WILLIAM KRAUSE THE RITUAL AND THE SPIRITUAL

"Thou shalt be called sought out." In Ezek. 34, Christ promises to seek his sheep and search them out. "I am found of them that sought me not:" therefore he must first seek them. "If a man have an hundred sheep, and lose one, doth he not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and goeth after that which was lost till he find it?" (Luke 15:4) When this comes to pass, we know he has found us, by the power we feel; and by power also he brings us back: which, when done, and we are put among the children, he calls his friends, and bids them rejoice: so at the return of a sinner, there is joy in heaven. (Isaac Beeman)

ISAAC BEEMAN GOD'S FREE REWARD AND GRACIOUS WORK	WILLIAM GADSBY CHRIST'S INVITATION TO HIS SPOUSE	THOMAS BRADBURY GOD, THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE AND CONSOLATION
ISAAC BEEMAN GOD'S SET TIME TO HAVE MERCY UPON ZION	JAMES WELLS FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES	JAMES BOURNE SPIRITUAL LIBERTY
J. C. PHILPOT A DISCRIMINATING MINISTRY	JESSE DELVES ETERNAL LIFE GIVEN	JOSEPH IRONS ISRAELITES, AND THEIR INHERITANCE

Let me now direct your attention to God's revelation of His grace, which is not according to any given rule or order. In tracing the course of a river, sometimes we begin at its source and continue until it loses itself in the ocean. Another time we commence where the river ends and prosecute our tracing up to its source. In God's revelation of Himself we see the river of eternal love flowing in pure and silvery streams. "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God." (Ps. 46:4) This is sometimes described as flowing from the covenant settlements of eternity past to the covenant consummation in eternity to come. On its bosom are borne elect vessels of mercy filled with grace here, to be swallowed up in wonder, love, and glory hereafter. At other times this river of grace is portrayed from its consummation in glory back to its outburst in JEHOVAH'S sovereign and unchanging decrees, and in the exceeding great and precious promises made to Christ for His people before the worlds were framed. (Thomas Bradbury)

JOHN KERSHAW CHRIST'S SHEEP, AND THEIR MARKS	WILLIAM GADSBY GOD OUR SALVATION	ISAAC BEEMAN THE HEAVENLY PROCLAMATION AND THE EVERLASTING COVENANT
JAMES WELLS SETTLED IN HOPE	JOHN BOOTH THE BANISHED RESTORED	THOMAS BRADBURY FORSAKEN AND FOUND
J. J. WEST THE DELIVERER OF THE NEEDY	JOSEPH IRONS THE FAMILY TITLE	THOMAS BRADBURY GOD'S DELIGHT, DETERMINATION AND DONATION

Give me certainties, or take my Bible and burn it--give me certainties, or never name Christianity in my ears. I bless the Lord that this is where our steadfastness is. Here we can rely. The law urged its demands, Jesus went to the end of the law, met it all, and vowed, while on earth, that not a jot nor tittle should pass away, till all was fulfilled. He did this; and He having accomplished all that the law can claim, the believer in Jesus may look up with confidence and say, "There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." (Rom. 8:1) Blessed, precious gospel! God almighty make you steadfast in it! Has He bruised the old serpent's head? Did He accomplish what the first promise stated concerning Him, and predicted of His perfect work? Certainly he got a bruise at His heel, and His sufferings and sorrows in Gethsemane and on Calvary were marks and proofs of that: but did He not hear the old serpent howl when the cross, wielded by Omnipotence, bruised his head, vanquished the prince of darkness: and rescued the entire election of grace from his grasp? "I will contend with them that contend with thee, and I will save thy children," (Isa. 49:25) was the promise, and, consequently, "the lawful captive shall be delivered, and the prey shall be taken from the mighty." He has done it. Had He not done it, would He have dared to say on the cross, in His expiring moments, "It is finished?" (Joseph Irons)

JOSEPH IRONS SEEKING SOULS DIRECTED	J. K. POPHAM ALL-SUFFICIENT	JOSEPH IRONS IMMOVEABLE FAITH
J. K. POPHAM HELP LAID ON A MIGHTY ONE	CALEB SAWYER THROUGH SUFFERING PERFECT	JOHN BOOTH SATAN'S CAPTIVE DELIVERED
FRANCIS COVELL THE ELECT ARE REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST	THOMAS BRADBURY WORDS OF TRUTH	JOSEPH IRONS JEWELS CLAIMED

You and I stand on the verge of an eternal world, and unless God himself say to the soul, "I am thy salvation," we must eternally perish. The great body of professors of religion are quite satisfied in talking about or hearing of a salvation. They tell us what great salvation God has accomplished for us, if we will but close in with it, if we will but do our part; Nothing will then do for the soul short of the Lord speaking, and saying to such a soul, "I am thy salvation." (William Gadsby)

THOMAS BRADBURY THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE	ISAAC BEEMAN THE CONVERSION OF A SINNER	J. C. PHILPOT THE BLOWING OF THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
THOMAS BRADBURY JEHOVAH-JESUS-- THE SECURITY OF ZION	JOSEPH IRONS POSSESSION AND PROSPECT	JOHN E. HAZELTON FATHER, I WILL
J. K. POPHAM SINNERS GIVEN AND COMING TO CHRIST	J. J. WEST THE POOR PRISONER	WILLIAM KRAUSE THINGS TEMPORAL AND THINGS ETERNAL

This must be so, we are not to be caught by mere profession, we are not to be deceived by persons who get up their creeds from other people or from books. Christianity is in the heart, it is the work of God in the inner man, or it will never, and can never stand the test of a dying bed, and a dying hour! (J. J. West)

J. C. PHILPOT HEAVENLY BIRTH AND ITS EARTHLY COUNTERFEITS	JOSEPH IRONS TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL THINGS CONTRASTED	THOMAS BRADBURY DEAD, YET LIVING
WILLIAM PARKS THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT	JOSEPH IRONS THE PRINCE OF LIFE	GEORGE DOUDNEY THE LIVING CHILD OF GOD
THOMAS BRADBURY WORK PREPARED	JAMES WELLS THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND THE TRUE SHEEP	J. K. POPHAM THIS MAN RECEIVETH SINNERS

There are many who believe in a universal Christ, and you will hear them say, "Oh! Christ came as the Saviour of the world." But the child of God tries the spirits whether they are of God. He knows, as the Lord the Spirit opens his heart, that it is the Christ of God that is the only head of his one body, and not of the whole world. (George Doudney)

THOMAS BRADBURY THE SPIRIT AND THE STANDARD	JOSEPH HATTON ETERNAL SHELTER	JOSEPH IRONS APOSTOLIC FAITH
MATTHEW WELLAND PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS	WILLIAM GADSBY THE SOUL'S DEATH UNTO SIN	THOMAS BRADBURY SOUL TROUBLE
WILLIAM KRAUSE SPIRITUAL LIFE AND WALK	JOSEPH IRONS THE BEST PREACHER	WILLIAM PARKS THE LORD'S HIGHWAY

It rested first upon the general ground of God's faithfulness--that he would be faithful to his word and his oath as made in and ratified by an everlasting covenant. This covenant is "ordered in all things and sure," (2 Sam. 23:5) and contains a special promise made in it to the Son of his love: "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me." (Ps. 89:34-36) According to the tenor of the promise in the eternal covenant, none of the elect can ever perish, or otherwise the seed of the spiritual David would not endure for ever. (J. C. Philpot)

JOHN VINALL A TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST	THOMAS BRADBURY ALL THINGS GIVEN	ISAAC BEEMAN THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND ITS POWERFUL EFFECTS
J. C. PHILPOT THE GOOD WORK BEGUN AND FINISHED	CALEB SAWYER WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE	J. K. POPHAM THE DIVINE TEACHER
JOSEPH IRONS THE OATH OF JEHOVAH TO HIS PEOPLE	JOSEPH ORTON GOD'S GREATNESS	JAMES WELLS EVERLASTING KINDNESS UPON THE ELECT

It is a salvation revealed in a living, glorified Man, who is also the Mighty God--a salvation brought home to the hearts of God's children by the exceeding greatness of His mighty power. "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" Escape what? Some would say, How shall we escape the wrath of God and the damnation of hell? I say nothing of the kind. We who have this salvation are saved from hell, and exempt from the wrath of God. (Thomas Bradbury)

JESSE DELVES THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH	JOHN BOOTH A NEVER-FAILING SEED	GEORGE DOUDNEY THE GATE OF ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS
J. J. WEST SINNERS SEEKING THE LORD AND HIS STRENGTH	JOHN KERSHAW THE NAME OF JESUS	THOMAS BRADBURY WE SEE JESUS
J. K. POPHAM LED OF THE SPIRIT	JAMES HALLETT THE ROOT OF THE MATTER	JOSEPH IRONS GOD'S HUSBANDRY

"For to me to live is Christ." This glorious truth of union to Christ shines blessedly through the whole of the Apostle's writings. If we may so speak, here is the center--union. All upon which he expatiates under the power of the Spirit flows from this union. Oh that by grace divine we could realize more fully that there is but one life common to both Head and members. (John E. Hazelton)

WILLIAM PARKS WHO ARE THE BLESSED?	JOHN VINALL SALVATION TO THE LAMB	JOHN E. HAZELTON TO LIVE, CHRIST-- TO DIE GAIN
WILLIAM GADSBY THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST	FRANCIS COVELL THE PURITY AND PERFECTION OF THE WORD OF GOD	JOSEPH IRONS EMBRACING THE ROCK
JESSE DELVES THE COVENANT MADE WITH US	ISAAC BEEMAN THE INGATHERING TO THE GOSPEL KINGDOM	THOMAS BRADBURY THE RIGHTEOUS ENNOBLED AND EXALTED

"And in every place incense shall be offered unto My Name, and a pure offering." It is the purity of the offering that constitutes its value. We find that God is very pure and very holy; He condemned the Jews for their offerings because they offered in sacrifice beasts that had blemishes. People say nowadays that we are too strict; but the Lord is a very strict God, and that is the God with whom we have to do. We see in Leviticus that before the sacrifices were offered they had to be carefully scrutinized by the priest and the inward parts laid open. What we offer God must be a pure offering; where are we to find it? (John Booth)

JOSEPH IRONS HID TREASURE	WILLIAM KRAUSE PROFESSION AND PRACTICE	JOHN VINALL THE SEED OF CHRIST
J. J. WEST THIS PEOPLE	JOHN BOOTH A PURE OFFERING	WILLIAM GADSBY COMFORT FOR SPIRITUAL MOURNERS
J. K. POPHAM A REVELATION OF CHRIST	THOMAS BRADBURY A MESSENGER	JOHN WARBURTON THE MOURNER BLESSED

Do you wish for another advocate, another gospel, something more up-to-date, as people say, more modern, more pleasing? O, if the grace of God is in your heart, and your soul is lively, you will say, O, that I could live closer to Him, be more often weeping at His cross, feel in my heart a sweet contrition, hear the echo of that wonderful voice, saying, "It is finished!" and feel that this mighty work was accomplished for me! What else do we need? We do not need a lot of religious enthusiasm, but we need a bleeding Jesus; (Jesse Delves)

JOSEPH ORTON THE REVEALING OF GOD'S ETERNAL PURPOSES	JESSE DELVES THE PIERCED SAVIOUR	CALEB SAWYER WHO ARE THE POOR AND NEEDY?
JOHN KERSHAW A PROMISE FOR THE DAY OF TROUBLE	THOMAS BRADBURY THE SERVANT	J. J. WEST CHRIST'S ONE GREAT OFFERING
WILLIAM GADSBY THE LORD'S PEOPLE HIDDEN	JOHN E. HAZELTON MOUNT MORIAH	WILLIAM PARKS THE NECESSITY OF A DAYSMAN, AS SEEN BY OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS

Well, then, mark, that He was upon His high throne long before He descended--settled all things pertaining to the worlds He made by His own fixed decrees, as well as upheld all things by the word of His power. All was settled. There is no such word as chance or accident in the Christian's vocabulary. The ancient settlements of the Divine mind drew the entire map of creation and time, and marked every spot, every individual circumstance, as well as every individual person, that should inhabit this globe, and what part they should act on it. All was set down. "He hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." (Prov. 16:4) And "is there evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6) My hearer, I fear we often too much overlook the ancient and eternal right of Jesus on His throne with His Father. (Joseph Irons)

J. K. POPHAM TO KNOW CHRIST AND HIS RESURRECTION	JOHN VINALL AN ISRAELITE INDEED	THOMAS BRADBURY JEHOVAH'S PROCLAMATION
WILLIAM GADSBY PAUL AND JAMES	JESSE DELVES THE WORK OF FAITH AND LABOR OF LOVE	JOSEPH IRONS PRINCELY LINEAGE
GEORGE DOUDNEY THE ELECT'S DEBT PAID BY CHRIST	CALEB SAWYER GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH	WILLIAM KRAUSE THE THRONE OF CHRIST

Our Redeemer obeyed the Law; or fulfilled the Terms of the Covenant. He was pure and holy in his Nature; holy, harmless and undefiled, and separate from Sinners. In his Conduct he was unblemished, for he did no Sin, neither was Guile found in his Mouth. (Isaiah 53:9) And he is the End of the Law for Righteousness to every Believer: (Rom. 10:4) And the Father is well pleased for his Righteousness sake. We are justified in him, and in him we have a proper Foundation to Glory. (John Brine)

ISAAC BEEMAN THE MESSIAH AND HIS GOVERNMENT	THOMAS BRADBURY A CASTAWAY	WILLIAM GADSBY CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH, ONE
DANIEL SMART CAIN AND ABEL	JOHN BRINE THE CHIEF OF SINNERS SAVED THROUGH JESUS CHRIST	MATTHEW WELLAND GOD OVER ALL
JESSE DELVES THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD	THOMAS BRADBURY ZION'S GATES AND GATEKEEPERS	WILLIAM GADSBY WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT?

Before justification, all was confusion, guilt, sin, and the sentence of a broken law in the conscience, with the accusation of Satan, fear of death, and dread of judgment; but the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever; (Isa. 32:17) so that if a man is once pardoned by the blood and righteousness of Christ, he is sure to have peace in his conscience; but before this, his conscience is the principal accuser. (William Huntington)

TOBIAS CRISP CHRIST'S PREEMINENCE	JOSEPH IRONS JESUS DYING AND RISING	JOHN VINALL FULL PAYMENT
GEORGE DOUDNEY THE FATHER'S INFINITE, ETERNAL LOVINGKINDNESS TO THE ELECT IN CHRIST	J. K. POPHAM CHRIST DWELLING IN THE HEART BY FAITH	WILLIAM HUNTINGTON THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
THOMAS BRADBURY SAFE COMPANY	TOBIAS CRISP GOD REMEMBERS NOT OUR SINS	JOHN BRINE THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL, CONSIDERED

Once more. This must be manifestly the work of the Spirit. And I must detain you a few moments upon this thought, because, in the day in which we live, there is so much material religion. I do not like it at all. Candle religion, wax religion, water religion, wafer religion, woman religion, all manner of odd things and materials are put forth in these days as Christianity. Now our Christianity is an immaterial thing; it is not made of materials. It is a Christianity that manifests itself to be the work of the Holy Ghost. (Joseph Irons)

EBENEZER WILMSHURST DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY	JOSEPH IRONS THE SAVIOUR'S FASHION	ELI ASHDOWN HIS NAME AND BLESSINGS IN HIM
AUGUSTUS TOPLADY ASSURANCE AND PERSEVERANCE	JOHN BRINE CHRIST THE OBJECT OF GOD'S ETERNAL DELIGHT AND THE CHURCH THE OBJECT OF CHRIST'S EVERLASTING DELIGHT	JAMES WELLS A CROWN OF LIFE FOR THE FAITHFUL
THOMAS BRADBURY THE COMING OF JEHOVAH-JESUS	JOHN VINALL A BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART	WILLIAM GADSBY GOD'S GLORY CONNECTED WITH HIS PEOPLE'S GOOD

The doctrine of election, "is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort of godly persons." But no mere doctrine can give peace. It is the power of the Holy Spirit alone that can apply the blood of Jesus, and so heal the broken in heart and cleanse the guilty sinner, from all his sin. (J. J. West)

WILLIAM KRAUSE THE UNCHANGEABLENESS OF GOD	WILLIAM PARKS CHRIST IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE	JOSEPH IRONS JESUS BETRAYED AND CONDEMNED
J. J. WEST THEM AND US	JOSEPH HATTON THE ROCK OF AGES	JOHN BRINE GOD: THE DEFENSE AND GLORY OF HIS CHURCH
THOMAS BRADBURY SATAN SPOILED	ISAAC BEEMAN THE GRATEFUL REMNANT	JOHN E. HAZELTON LIVING WATERS

There is a scarlet thread which runs through the whole of the Scriptures, from the beginning of Genesis to the end of the Revelation; that scarlet thread will be found in almost every chapter, the scarlet thread of redemption. It is the great topic of every book in the Bible. There is one topic that is the great joy and delight of the inhabitants of heaven, and that is the topic of redemption. (Ebenezer Wilmshirst)

FRANCIS COVELL THE CHOSEN ONES	JESSE DELVES REDEEMING THE TIME	J. K. POPHAM THE DESTITUTE REGARDED
GEORGE DOUDNEY CHRIST OUR ADONAI	JOHN BRINE ANCIENT PROPHECY PROVED TO BE DIVINE	JAMES WELLS TRUE REPENTANCE
JOHN BRINE THE OPPOSITION OF FLESH AND SPIRIT IN BELIEVERS, CONSIDERED	THOMAS GODWIN THE LORD'S FAMILY	DANIEL SMART GOD'S MERCY

I bless God, I hope feelingly, for His great mercy in having taught and convinced me in my own experience that nothing but the invincible power of His Spirit attending His truth to my heart ever could have brought me to feel my perishing condition, and to feel that if God, as the sovereign Jehovah, had not been pleased to pardon me, justify me, and save me by His free and unmerited grace, I must have been damned for ever as a transgressor of the law of God. (Charles Hemington)

SAMUEL TURNER THE SCANDAL OF THE CROSS	CALEB SAWYER SAVE THY PEOPLE	SAMUEL WALDEGRAVE THE LIVING REDEEMER
FREDERICK TRYON THE OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST	WILLIAM KRAUSE THE RESOURCES IN GOD	JOSEPH IRONS WHERE IS MY HOPE
CHARLES HEMINGTON THE DAY OF GOD'S POWER	ALFRED HEWLETT DEFENDING THE FAITH	WILLIAM GADSBY AN ADDRESS TO THE REGENERATED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Preserved in Him, from death, while in their unregenerate state; even though exposed to innumerable dangers, brought to the gates of the grave by the raging fever, or wasting consumption, they are "preserved in Jesus Christ," and through all time, they are preserved in Him, from the curse of God, the condemnation of His holy law, the avenging sword of divine justice, the malevolence of Satan, and the inbred corruption of their own hearts, which are "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," and from all the complicated evils introduced into the world by sin. (Alfred Hewlett)

J. J. WEST THE EARNEST CRY	JAMES BOURNE HIS FRUIT	JAMES WELLS THE SURE WORD
J. K. POPHAM HEALED WITH HIS STRIPES	THOMAS BRADBURY THE EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE	SAMUEL WALDEGRAVE THE WORDS OF LIFE
ISAAC BEEMAN FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY	JOHN BOOTH THE HOUSE OF GOD DESIRED	MATTHEW WELLAND PRAISE

Who are they that men have hated and persecuted from the beginning? They who have showed beforehand the coming of the Just One, believed on him and loved him. It is Christ, the promised seed, who has been hated, persecuted, and reproached from the beginning. Take away his testimony, and there will be no reproach. (Henry Birch)

JAMES BATTERSBY A RANSOM FOR ALL	J. K. POPHAM THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE WORD	WILLIAM SYKES GOD'S WHOSOEVER
WILLIAM GADSBY NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD	ROBERT HAWKER ETERNAL REDEMPTION OBTAINED FOR THE CHURCH	HENRY FOWLER THE BURNING AND SHINING LAMP
J. K. POPHAM CHRIST'S BURIAL AND RESURRECTION	THOMAS GODWIN SPIRITUAL WARFARE	HENRY BIRCH JESUS IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE WORD OF GOD

Faithfulness was never more necessary than at the present period; and he that is enabled to be faithful will be considered legal, if not an Arminian, by some; and some will say that he is an Antinomian. But men's fancies and wild ideas, uttered ever so gravely or dogmatically, must not be heeded by the servant of God; he is accountable to his Master and not to men. (Henry Fowler)

DAVID FENNER CHRIST DWELLS IN THE HEARTS OF HIS PEOPLE BY HIS BLESSED SPIRIT	ALFRED HEWLETT THE GRACE OF GOD NOT IN VAIN	WILLIAM PARKS MOURNERS IN ZION
WILLIAM PARKS SALVATION INDEED	JAMES DENNETT GOD'S SPEECH HEARD IN A SINNER'S SOUL	ERNEST ROE BLOOD THEOLOGY
BERNARD GILPIN PEACE IN ME: TRIBULATION IN THE WORLD	HELY H. A. SMITH GOD'S SALVATION: A SYSTEM AND A CERTAINTY	GREY HAZLERIGG THE EVERLASTING COVENANT

Now, it must be observed, in the first place, with respect to their secret character, that their being sheep arises from the everlasting, immutable, and unchangeable love of a Triune Jehovah, Father, Son, and ever-blessed Spirit; and this love is variously described, set forth, and exhibited by the Trinity in Unity; as the Father's love in the gift of His dear Son; the Son's love in laying down His life for poor, perishing sinners; and the Spirit's love in teaching, leading, and guiding them into all truth, and testifying of Christ. (John Hobbs)

JOHN BRINE THE CAUSES OF SALVATION AND VOCATION CONSIDERED	JOHN KERSHAW THE BURDENED SOUL SUSTAINED	ERNEST ROE THE PRAYER OF THE POOR
WILLIAM VINE CHRIST PRECIOUS	G. S. B. ISBELL THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN	WILLIAM TIPTAFT A HOLY GOD AND HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL
THOMAS GODWIN THE SECRET OF THE LORD	W. L. ROLLESTON A NEW HEART	JAMES DENNETT CONFESSING THE SON OF GOD

Before proceeding to our second question, I wish to observe that there is a difference between Justification and the pardon of sin. These two subjects are frequently very closely connected, and yet there is a difference between them. They may go together, and still, they are not the same. Pardon is not justification; neither is justification pardon. A person who is pardoned is treated as a transgressor; but a person who is justified is declared righteous. A person who is pardoned, is freed from the obligation of suffering for his crimes; but a person who is justified, is declared worthy of life, because of his innocence. (James Battersby)

HENRY BIRCH TROUBLE INCREASETH	CHARLES HEMINGTON THE POOR OF THIS WORLD	THOMAS SINKINSON PARDONING INIQUITY
HENRY FOWLER JESUS, THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT	ROBERT KNILL THE WORKS OF GOD	WILLIAM FAY DESIRING TO DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
GEORGE GORTON WHY AM I THUS?	BERNARD GILPIN THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER	JOHN HOBBS THE MYSTICAL SHEEP AND THEIR SPIRITUAL PASTURE

W. R. GARNER OUR GOD IS THE GOD OF SALVATION	GREY HAZLERIGG COVERED WITH THE ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS	JAMES BATTERSBY BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE
JOHN HOBBS THE GOSPEL SEED AND ITS VARIOUS EFFECTS

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