“The keeping of the Lords day forms an important object for their attention who would promote true godliness. Religion never prospers while Sabbaths are trodden under foot.”

“The keeping of the Lords day forms an important object for their attention who would promote true godliness. Religion never prospers while Sabbaths are trodden under foot. No wonder there was a general decay of religion, and corruption of manners among the Jews, when they forsook the sanctuary and profaned the Sabbath. Those little consider [...]

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“But there are those who will trust Christ no further than they can see Him, and will not believe His promise, unless the means of the performance of it be visible; as if [God] were tied to our methods, and could not draw water without our buckets.”

“But there are those who will trust Christ no further than they can see Him, and will not believe His promise, unless the means of the performance of it be visible; as if [God] were tied to our methods, and could not draw water without our buckets.” Matthew Henry, Commentary on John ch 4. Daily [...]

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“We must not think it strange if wickedness be suffered to prevail long and prosper long.”

“When God seems to connive at the wickedness of the wicked, nay, and to countenance it, by suffering them to prosper in their wickedness, it shocks the faith of good men, and proves a sore temptation for them to say, We have cleansed our hearts in vain (Ps 73:13), and hardens those in their impiety [...]

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