Posts Tagged 'Puritan'
Make My Heart Prize Thy Love Though I be Denied All Blessings!
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be delivered ...
Make My Heart Prize Thy Love Though I be Denied All Blessings!
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be delivered ...
Ponder What the Word “Lost” Implies!
I do not know if it is the case for you, but many times in my life, in many days I go by, I find myself not praying aright. Yes, it is so easy to utter prayers of supplication and such. But it is so much a different thing altogether to utter prayers that flow from a tender heart that truly communes with God in deep groanings and sighs. What a sad image do I see ...
Ponder What the Word “Lost” Implies!
I do not know if it is the case for you, but many times in my life, in many days I go by, I find myself not praying aright. Yes, it is so easy to utter prayers of supplication and such. But it is so much a different thing altogether to utter prayers that flow from a tender heart that truly communes with God in deep groanings and sighs. What a sad image do I see ...
A Prayer Anticipating the Lord’s Day Morning
O Maker and Upholder of all things, Day and night are thine; they are also mine from thee – the night to rid me of the cares of the day, to refresh my weary body, to renew my natural strength; the day to summon me to new activities, to give me opportunity to glorify thee, to serve my generation, to acquire knowledge, holiness, eternal life. But one day above all days is made especially for thy honour and my improvement; The sabbath reminds me of thy rest from ...
A Prayer Anticipating the Lord’s Day Morning
O Maker and Upholder of all things, Day and night are thine; they are also mine from thee – the night to rid me of the cares of the day, to refresh my weary body, to renew my natural strength; the day to summon me to new activities, to give me opportunity to glorify thee, to serve my generation, to acquire knowledge, holiness, eternal life. But one day above all days is made especially for thy honour and my improvement; The sabbath reminds me of thy rest from ...
The Life of Resolved of Jonathan Edwards
During Edwards' preparation for the ministry, his residence in New York, and his subsequent residence in his father’s house, he formed a series of resolutions , to the number of seventy, intended obviously for himself alone, to regulate his own heart and life, but fitted also, from their christian simplicity and spiritual-mindedness, to be eminently useful to others. Of these the first thirty-four were written before Dec. 18, 1722, the time in which his Diary, as ...
The Life of Resolved of Jonathan Edwards
During Edwards' preparation for the ministry, his residence in New York, and his subsequent residence in his father’s house, he formed a series of resolutions , to the number of seventy, intended obviously for himself alone, to regulate his own heart and life, but fitted also, from their christian simplicity and spiritual-mindedness, to be eminently useful to others. Of these the first thirty-four were written before Dec. 18, 1722, the time in which his Diary, as ...
The All-Consuming Singleness of a Vision of God!
Edwards exhorts us to radical singlemindedness in our occupation with spiritual things. Listen to two of his resolutions that he made in 1723, when he was almost 20 years old. # 44, Resolved, That no other end but religion shall have any influence at all in any of my actions; and that no action shall be, in the least circumstance, any otherwise than the religious end will carry it. # 61, Resolved, That I will not give ...
The All-Consuming Singleness of a Vision of God!
Edwards exhorts us to radical singlemindedness in our occupation with spiritual things. Listen to two of his resolutions that he made in 1723, when he was almost 20 years old. # 44, Resolved, That no other end but religion shall have any influence at all in any of my actions; and that no action shall be, in the least circumstance, any otherwise than the religious end will carry it. # 61, Resolved, That I will not give ...
We Need a God-Entranced Vision of a Reality of God!
Since Edwards, American evangelicals have not thought about life from the ground up as Christians because their entire culture has ceased to do so. Edwards's piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view or his profoundly theological philosophy. The disappearance of Edwards's perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy. (Mark Noll, Quoted in "Jonathan Edwards, Moral Philosophy, and ...
We Need a God-Entranced Vision of a Reality of God!
Since Edwards, American evangelicals have not thought about life from the ground up as Christians because their entire culture has ceased to do so. Edwards's piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view or his profoundly theological philosophy. The disappearance of Edwards's perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy. (Mark Noll, Quoted in "Jonathan Edwards, Moral Philosophy, and ...
. . . Until Thou Alone Art Seen in Me.
Lord Jesus, give me a deeper repentance, a horror of sin, a dread of its approach. Help me chastely to flee it and jealously to resolve that my heart shall be Thine alone. Give me a deeper trust, that I may lose myself to find myself in Thee, the ground of my rest, the spring of my being. Give me a deeper knowledge of Thyself as saviour, master, lord, and king. Give me deeper power in private prayer, more ...
. . . Until Thou Alone Art Seen in Me.
Lord Jesus, give me a deeper repentance, a horror of sin, a dread of its approach. Help me chastely to flee it and jealously to resolve that my heart shall be Thine alone. Give me a deeper trust, that I may lose myself to find myself in Thee, the ground of my rest, the spring of my being. Give me a deeper knowledge of Thyself as saviour, master, lord, and king. Give me deeper power in private prayer, more ...
If I Should Suffer, Go Unclothed, and be in Poverty. . .
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be ...
If I Should Suffer, Go Unclothed, and be in Poverty. . .
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be ...
What Makes Many so Cold and Barren?
The bruised reed is a man that for the most part is in some misery, as those were that came to Christ for help, and by misery he is brought to see sin as the cause of it, for, whatever pretenses sin makes, they come to an end when we are bruised and broken. He is sensible of sin and misery, even unto bruising; and, seeing no help in himself, is carried with restless desire ...
What Makes Many so Cold and Barren?
The bruised reed is a man that for the most part is in some misery, as those were that came to Christ for help, and by misery he is brought to see sin as the cause of it, for, whatever pretenses sin makes, they come to an end when we are bruised and broken. He is sensible of sin and misery, even unto bruising; and, seeing no help in himself, is carried with restless desire ...