Distressed Over Sin

"...one who is deeply distressed over the raging of his lusts and fears that he has never been soundly converted, is this: the fact is, that the more holy a person is, and the more his heart is truly sanctified, the more clearly does he perceive his corruptions and the more painfully does he feel …

Does not the eye guide the hands and feet?

Philpot writes, The Lord knows what we are, as so deeply, so awfully sunk in the Adam fall. Adam was wise as well as upright; but with the fall both were gone as in a moment; for the same awful crash which broke to pieces his innocency wrecked and ruined his wisdom, and thus he …

Good People

(repost) Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. We have many ideas about what a person has to do to get to heaven.  Some believe we must follow the "Golden Rule," and do good deeds which will eventually outweigh the bad we have done, tipping …

True Heart-Work

John Warburton, "If there be a sinner, who has just got his eyes opened to see his lost and ruined state, who feels that he cannot pray, nor knows how to utter a word before the great Jehovah who is so infinite in holiness and justice, while he is such a vile and polluted sinner …

Fuller’s Controversy with Booth [Letter VI]

[The footnotes are included in the letters. They are found in bracketed italics. Any links found in the article are my doing.]  SIX LETTERS TO DR. RYLAND  RESPECTING THE CONTROVERSY WITH THE REV. A. BOOTH.  LETTER VI. BAXTERIANISM. MY DEAR BROTHER, Jan. 22, 1803. MR. B. in his letter to you of Dec. 6, 1802, …

Matthew 23.37 by S. Hassell

Mining the old Primitive Baptist works online has been fruitful. THE GOSPEL MESSENGER—November 1895 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her-wings, and ye would not!” Brother J. J. …

Vain Jangling

Let the law be what it may, and aim at what it please, "the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned;" he that swerves from this turns aside to vain jangling; knows not what he says, nor whereof he affirms. God tells us …

The Anatomizing of Arminius

The following was written by William Huntington, it's a long read but well worth it... ________________________________________ Dear Brethren and Sisters in Faith, Learning or eloquence you know, "I have none, but such as I have give I you." I here present you with the ARMINIAN SKELETON, together with an account of the anatomizing of Arminius, …

Terrorists of the Weary Soul

Thomas Brooks, "Arminians are not ashamed to say, that God may crown a man one hour, and uncrown him in the next; they blush not to say that a man may be happy and miserable, under love and under wrath, an heir of heaven and a firebrand of hell, a child of light and a …

God’s Decree

Isaiah 46: 10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Ephesians 1: 11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the …