SAURIN. who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Regeneration its Nature, Necessity and Author. John 3: 1-8. L. BEECHER. The Native Character of Man. 1 John 4: 7. Every one that loveth is born of God. C. WILCOX. The Unreasonableness of Indecision. Acts 26: 28. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. A. W. LELAND. The Pure Gospel rejected by the Perishing. 1 Cor. 1: 18. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. A. V. GRISWOLD. The Malady and Physician of the Soul. Luke 5: 31. They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. B. TYLER. Free Salvation. Rev. 22: 17. Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely. T. SNELL. Sovereign Grace. Rom. 9: 21. Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? R. EMERSON. The Chief Evil of Sin. Ps. 1: 4. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. B. GREEN. Evangelical Truths offensive to the Unrenewed, but joyous to the Believer. Mat. 11: 6. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. A. HYDE. The Nature and Reasonableness of Submitting to God. 2 Kings 7: 3-4. And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say, we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians if they save us alive, we shall live: and if they kill us, we shall but die. J. M. MASON. Assurance of Faith and Hope. 2 Tim. 1: 12. I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. J. MATTHEWS. The Sinner's Imminent Danger. Mat. 7: 13. Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. J. MATTHEWS. The Sinner's Immediate Duty." Mat. 7: 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate. H. HUMPHREY. A Dreadful Meeting.. Isa. 47: 3. I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. M. TUCKER. The Guilt of Inefficiency and Delay. John 4: 14. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? W. T. HAMILTON. Why the Wicked are suffered to live. Job 21: 7. Wherefore do the wicked live? W. MITCHELL. The Facility with which the Wicked go to Destruction. Mat. 7:13. Broad is the way, &c. J. MCDOWELL. Human Depravity and its Rem edy. John 15: 3. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. S. K. KOLLOCK. Conviction by the Law. E. POND. Rom. 7: 9. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. J. PARKER. Conviction of Sinners at the Judgment. Jude 14, 15. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. E. W. HOOKER. The. Sinner and not the Believer Deranged. Acts 26: 24, 25. And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. W. B. SPRAGUE. The Probability of Perdition inferred from present Impeni tence. Rev. 22: 11. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still. W. B. SPRAGUE. The Wicked surprised by their own Destruction. Lam. 1: 9. She remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully. N. PORTER. Sinners avoid Conviction. John 3: 20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light. G. N. JUDD. Sinners urged to a Reconciliation PRES. DAVIES. with God. 2 Cor. 5: 20. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. T. S. BARRETT. The Foolish Rich Man. G. A. CALHOUN. The Character, Conduct and Destiny of the Jailer and Felix contrasted. Acts 16: 29-34, and 24: 25-27. |