Illumination and Conviction without Regeneration

Quotes from John Owen's work on the Holy Spirit: "Illumination is not regeneration, nor does regeneration infallibly take place after illumination. When light is shone on Gods saving grace, then the soul sees clearly what is being offered. So illumination prepares the soul for regeneration." "The second thing that happens is that the Holy Spirit …

Covenant Interest

Every few months I come back to Isiah 50 to read and pray over: Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Behold, all ye that …

We little know the violence we are redeemed from.

LETTER 68 [To Richard Dore.] Woodham Mortimer, Oct. 1834. Dear Friend, As you and I are prevented having much personal intercourse on account of your deafness, I take this means of repeating what we have often considered before, with a full belief of the truth of it, that it is through much tribulation we must …

Glorious Covenant Provisions

"Every child of God, whatever the qualities or capabilities of such may be, shall be led into all truth. Not that all shall come to the same standard of knowledge or experience, but each child of God shall be led into all truth needful for its spiritual education, necessary for the peculiar spots into which …

When They Awake In Hell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKp-dlj8wbk Another video...I need to fix the ending...

Imperishable Grace

O what wonders love has done! The boundless grace of God is seen in the covenant of grace. Boston very truly observes that "as man's ruin was originally owing to the breaking of the covenant of works, so his recovery, from the first to the last step thereof, is owing purely to the fulfilling (by …

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 …

True Discipleship, or the Liberty of Truth

True Discipleship, or the Liberty of Truth Preached at Providence Chapel, Oakham, on Wednesday Evening, July 7, 1869, by J. C. Philpot Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed on him, "If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make …

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 …

In the Soul

The Doctrine of Revelation The work of the Spirit in the heart is as indispensable as was the work of Christ on the Cross. The necessity for the Spirit’s inward and effective operations are from the darkness, depravity and spiritual emptiness of fallen human nature. He alone can discover to us our dire need of …