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The Abolition Of The Episcopacy Would Be A Disaster 
A CHURCH-OF-ENGLAND Man hath a true Veneration for the Scheme established among us of Ecclesiastical Government -, and although he will not determine whether Episcopacy be of Divine Right, he is sure it is most agreeable to primitive Institution… Read on
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Abortion Is Incompatible With Christian Morality 
FOR when they know that we cannot endure even to see a man put to death, though justly… Read on
Athenagoras (2nd century)

Abortion Is Murder, And Endangers The Mother’s Life Too 
YOU may see many women widows before wedded, who try to conceal their miserable fall by a lying garb.… Read on
Jerome (347-420)

About The Chief Days In The Christian Calendar 
AS that Jews had their sabbath, which did continually bring to mind the former world finished by creation… Read on
Anthony Sparrow (1612-1685)

Adam’s Fall Led To An Increase In Our Love For Our Neighbour 
AS our faith, both in God the Father and the Son, receives an unspeakable increase, if not its very being, from this grand event, as does also our love both of the Father and the Son… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Adam’s Fall, God’s Grace, And Mankind’s Response 
AND thus according to the passages of holy scripture quoted above or the interpretations of the ancient Fathers we must, under the blessing of God, preach and believe as follows.… Read on
Council of Orange (529)

The Advantages Accruing To Us From The Resurrection Of Jesus 
IT appears, then, that the resurrection of Christ is of advantage to us… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

The Advantages Of Chanting The Prayer Book Services (I) 
THE uniform tenor of pronunciation used in the cathedral service, is very generally opposed by those to whom the practice is novel.… Read on
Thomas Bisse (1675-1731)

The Advantages Of Chanting The Prayer Book Services (II) 
CERTAIN higher reasons for the practice are thus given by the above author.… Read on
Thomas Bisse (1675-1731)

The Advantages Of Daily Prayer In Common 
BESIDES these common Benefits, which accrue to the Kingdom and Church in general, from the Common Prayers, which are daily performed in it, and to the Perfons who perform them, as they are Members of the same… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

The Advantages Of God’s Chosen Means Of Atonement 
THE two objects to which religion tends are, to purify our hearts, and to excite in us a love to God.… Read on
Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872)

The Advantages Of Praying During the Communion 
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a wonhipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Advantages Of Using A Set Form Of Public Worship 
YOU see, then, what prescription we can plead for set forms of prayer in the public worship of God.… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

Advent Gives Us A Reason For Rejoicing 
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. … Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Advent Teaches Us To Sing Hosannas To Our Saviour 
BUT Hosanna to him that truly comes in the name of the Lord: God's blessing with him.… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

All Christians Have To Work Together Against a Common Enemy 
MY whole politics, at present, centre in one point, and to this the merit or demerit of every measure … Read on
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

All Doctrines Are ‛Abstract’ Until They Change Your Life 
PEOPLE lift up hands of protest against the notion that the acceptance of abstract propositions can have anything whatsoever to do with the saving of the soul.… Read on
William Reed Huntington (1838-1909)

All Sacred Music Must Be Marked By Gravity, Majesty, Melody, And Harmony 
UPON every tune, therefore, offered to a Christian congregation in the House of God, let there be impressed, as with a signet, Gravity — Majesty — Melody — Harmony.… Read on
John Antes Latrobe (1799-1878)

Altars To Be Made Of Stone Or Wood, And To Stand Where They Stood Before The Reformation 
WHEREAS her Majesty understandeth, that in many and sundry parts of the realm the altars of the churches be removed, and tables placed for the administration of the Holy Sacrament, according to the form of the law therefore provided… Read on
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Always Be Prepared, So We May Always Be Free 
"Someday, Lis, I'll go back," said Private First Class Peter Robert Zanatta, of the 37th Engineer Combat Battalion, and first assault wave to hit Omaha Beach.… Read on
Ronald Reagan

Always Have Some Pastime Or Project In Hand 
IN the fourth place, [let me propose] that we be always careful to provide proper employment for our time.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

The Analogy Between Baptism And Circumcision Proves The Practice Of Baptising Infants 
AND when these enquirers learn that, at eight days' old, the infant Israelite was thus initiated… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

The Ancient Warrants For Certain Traditional Ceremonies 
YOU say, "In the sacrament of the Eucharist, several abuses were introduced."… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Angels Stand Beside The Priest At Holy Communion 
WHENEVER we enter the Church, and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, as well because of the presence of the angelic powers, as of the reverence due to the sacred oblation… Read on
Bede (672/3-735)

The Anglican Doctrine Of The Eucharist Is Not That Of Ulrich Zwingli 
IT is well known whither he leaned; that, to make this point straight, he bowed it too far the other way.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Anglican Doctrine Of The Eucharistic Sacrifice Agrees With Thomas Aquinas 
ALL the Fathers held it a sacrifice, only because it is a representation or commemoration of the true sacrifice of Christ upon the cross, even as our Saviour commanded, "Do this in remembrance of Me."… Read on
John Buckeridge (1562-1631)

The Anglican Doctrine Of The Real Presence Of Christ In The Holy Sacrament 
THE doctrine of the church of England, and generally of the Protestants, in this article, is,— that after the minister of the holy mysteries hath rightly prayed, and blessed or consecrated the bread and the wine, the symbols become changed into the body and blood of Christ, after a sacramental, that is, in a spiritual real manner… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Anglicanism Is Neither Lutheran Nor Calvinist 
LUTHER was a man of great learning, and God bestowed upon him singular gifts and remarkable talents, by which he was enabled to bring again into a clearer light, in his own and many other countries, the truth of the Gospel, which almost everywhere in the Western Church had been overshadowed by dark clouds of error… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

Anglicanism, The Catholic Faith, And The First Four Centuries 
THE Church of England doth very piously declare her consent with the ancient Catholic Church, in not admitting any thing to be delivered as the sense of Scripture, which is contrary to the consent of the Catholic Church in the four first ages.… Read on
Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699)

The Anonymity Of City Life Poses Risks For Young People 
IT is in the nature of every great assembly of men,—in the obscurity which is produced to the individual, when he miugles in the multitude of society.… Read on
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)

The Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament Are To Be Treated With Reverence 
AND next, be it observed, that the books which are commonly called Apocrypha, are not asserted in the Article to be destitute of inspiration or to be simply human, but to be not Canonical… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

The Apostles’ Creed 
I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth … Read on
Book Of Common Prayer (1662)

Article XVII Is Silent On Key Calvinist Doctrines 
THE first thing observable in it, is its silence on the subject of reprobation.… Read on
William White (1748-1836)

Article XVII On Predestination Counters Several Important Errors 
COMPARE the Lambeth Articles, or the decrees of the Synod of Dort, or the Assembly's Confession… Read on
Daniel Waterland (1703-1791)

Article XVII Sees Our Election As Collective, Not Individual 
"THOSE" (says the article) "whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind."… Read on
William White (1748-1836)

As Christ Is The Power Of His Father, So His Gospel Is The Power Of Christ 
THE word of the gospel with the Spirit is full of power and strength. No man will deny, that Christ, in his own person, is full of power.… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

As Long As A Man Hates The One Means Of Salvation, He Cannot Be Renewed To Repentance 
THERE is also something peculiar in ἀνακαινίζειν, "renewing such men to repentance… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Assurances Over Receiving Communion 
As God, whose mercy is over all his works, and particularly over the children of men, knew there was but one way for man to be happy like himself… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Athanasian Creed 
WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith.… Read on
Book Of Common Prayer (1662)

The Athanasian Creed’s Harsh Words Should Be Treated With Caution 
IF I should be questioned concerning the Symbol of Athanasius … Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Authentic Protestant Doctrine Of The Presence Of Christ In The Communion 
THE opinion of Zwingli which the Divines of Zurich tenaciously maintained and defended, namely that 'Christ is present in thc Eucharist only by the contemplation of faith… Read on
William Forbes (1585-1634)

Authentic Reformation Must Be Measured By The Primitive Church 
THE true sense of the Scripture is not to be had but out of the records of antiquity… Read on
Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672)

Avoid Developments In Doctrine Of Whichever Church Party 
BUT I would caution you, my christian friends, against adopting any such developments of christian doctrine, in this, or in any other point.… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)


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Baptised Infants, Like Abraham, Are Heirs Of A Promise For Which They Must Wait 
CHILDREN may be adopted into the covenant of the gospel, that is, made partakers of the communion of saints, which is the second effect of baptism… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Baptism Is More Than A Remission Of Sins 
O STRANGE and inconceivable thing! We did not really die, we were not really buried, we were not really crucified and raised again… Read on
Cyril Of Jerusalem (?315-386)

Baptism Is The First Moment Of Our Sanctification And New Birth 
THERE are that elevate too much the ordinary and immediate means of life, relying wholly upon the bare conceit of that eternal election, which notwithstanding includeth a subordination of means, without which we are not actually brought to enjoy what God secretly did intend… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

The Baptism Of Infants Makes Sense Just As The Circumcision Of Infants Did 
SINCE then the covenant of the gospel is the covenant of faith, and not of works… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Baptismal Regeneration, And Sanctification By The Holy Spirit 
THIS wonderful change in all our faculties, as it were annihilating our former selves, and making other creatures of us than we were before, is also, at its commencement, called "regeneration".… Read on
Glocester Ridley (1702-1774)

The Basic Doctrine Of Holy Communion 
THUS much we must be sure to hold, that in the supper of the Lord there is no vain ceremony, no bare sign, no untrue figure of a thing absent… Read on
The Second Book Of Homilies (1571)

The Basic Doctrine Of The Trinity Is More Important Than Precise Formulae 
ONE of the best tracts which that great man, Dean Swift, ever wrote, was his Sermon upon the Trinity.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Beauty And Presence Of Christ In His Holy Ordinances 
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock.… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

The Benefits And Dangers Of A Liberal Education In The Arts 
ST. Luke and St. Paul show us, that we may be sturdy workers in the Lord's service, and bear our cross manfully, though we be adorned with all the learning of the Egyptians, or rather, that the resources of literature, and the graces of a cultivated mind, may be made both a lawful source of enjoyment to the possessor, and a means of introducing and recommending the Truth to others… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

The Benefits Of Constantly Reciting The Creed 
THIS Creed Is Said Daily Twice, Morning And Evening. So it was of old.… Read on
Anthony Sparrow (1612-1685)

The Benefits Of Holy Communion 
NO fullness there is of our Liturgy or public solemn service, without the Sacrament.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Benefits Of Private Confession Before Communion 
I SHALL add but one thing more concerning the things which are to be done before the Sacrament [i.… Read on
Anonymous (17th century)

The Benefits Of Self-Examination 
CONSIDER also what would be the sweet effects of this self-examination. If thou be upright and godly, it will lead thee straight towards assurance of God's love… Read on
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

The Benefits of Confession And Restitution 
AS touching confession I tell you, that they that can be content with the general absolution which every minister of God's word giveth in his sermons, when he pronounceth that all that be sorry for their sins, and believe in Christ, seek help and remedy by him, and afterward intend to amend their lives, and avoid sin and wickedness, all these that be so minded shall have remission of their sins… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

The Best Preaching Is That Of The Scriptures, The Psalms, And The Liturgy 
AS concerning the necessity of preaching, so effectually set forth by the Scriptures, there is utterly a mistake in the meaning of them.… Read on
Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672)

Beware Of Private Revelations Contrary To Scripture 
BEWARE of that daughter of pride, enthusiasm! O keep at the utmost distance from it… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Biblical Grounds For The Threefold Ministry 
THE ground of episcopacy is derived partly from the pattern prescribed by God in the Old Testament, and partly from the imitation thereof brought in by the apostles, and confirmed by Christ himself in the time of the New.… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

Bishops Bilson And Andrewes On The Real Presence Of Christ In The Holy Sacrament 
THE right Reverend Doctors, T. Bilson, and L. Andrews, Prelates both of them, thoroughly learned, and great defenders of the Primitive Faith, ....… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

The Blessing Of Being A Parent To Many Children 
WE have a title to be provided for as we are God's creatures, another title as we are His children, another because God hath promised… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Blessings And Limits Of Free Thinking 
THE great purpose for which the powers and the liberty of thought were bestowed, was for the discovery of Truth… Read on
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)

The Blessings Of Easter 
O BLESSED day of the Resurrection, which of old time was called the Queen of Festivals, and raised among Christians an anxious, nay contentious diligence duly to honour it!… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

The Body And Blood Of Christ Uproots Corruption From Within Us 
AGAIN does He contrast the Mystic Blessing [i.e. the Eucharist] with the supply of manna, and the savour of the cup with the founts from rocky beds.… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

The Book Of Common Prayer Is The Best Liturgy Extant In The Christian World 
I WILL not be so lavish or extravagant in the praise of our Liturgy, as to say it is an absolutely perfect form of prayer, or so good as not to be capable in some respects to be made better… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

The Bread Of The Eucharist Is Both Heavenly And Earthly 
THEN, again, how can they say that the flesh, which is nourished with the body of the Lord and with His blood, goes to corruption, and does not partake of life?… Read on
Irenaeus of Lyons (d. 202)

Bring The Promptings Of Grace To Fulfilment Through Prayer 
WHERE the Apostle exhorteth, "Let us have grace," ) the question is, from whence we may have it?… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Brotherly Love Among The Christian Family 
TO Christians, and concerning Christians, their language always is, Brethren.… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

Busy Men Should Take Time For Quiet And Reflection 
I SHALL only add, as my seventh and last advice on this subject, to mix retreat with the active business of the world, and to cultivate habits of serious thought and recollection.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

By Faith We May Ascend With Christ To Be With Him Where He Is 
TODAY our Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven; let our hearts ascend with him.… Read on
Augustine Of Hippo (354-430)


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Call Christ Into Your Marriage With His Spirit And Grace 
NOW you have heard in this gospel, beside other good matters, of marriage how holy a thing it is, how it is the ordinance of God himself… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

A Call To Give Alms During Lent 
MEN most beloved, it is known to you all that this yearly course just now brings us the pure time of the Lenten Fast, during which we should confess our heedlessness and transgressions to our ghostly confessor, and wash ourselves from sins with fasting, and watchings, and prayers, and alms-deeds, that we may boldly, with ghostly joy, honour the Easter celebration of Christ's ascension, and with faith partake of the holy housel [=Communion], for the forgiveness of our sins, and protection against devilish temptations.… Read on
Aelfric Of Eynsham (?955-?1020)

The Calling Of St Andrew The Apostle 
WITH this Festival we begin our year,— thus ushering in, with a few weeks of preparation, the day of Christ's Nativity.… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

Canons Relating To Ornaments Of The Priest 
24. Copes to be worn in Cathedral Churches by those that administer the Communion.… Read on
James I Of England (1566-1625)

The Celebration Of The Sacraments In The Church Of England 
THE Eucharist is religiously and reverently celebrated by us on the greater Festivals, and on the first Sunday of every month.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

Ceremonies Preserve The Honour And Privileges Of The Church 
I CANNOT but remember a very prudent speech uttered in the beginning of the late preceding Parliament, and by that Lord who now made this.… Read on
William Laud (1573-1645)

Certain Notes For The More Plain Explication Of The Liturgy 
CERTAYNE NOTES for the more playne explicacion and decent ministracion of thinges, conteined in thys booke.… Read on
Book Of Common Prayer (1549)

The Challenge To Apply What We Believe To Ourselves 
THIS man was supplicating for a favour. That he might receive it, there must be on his part a qualification.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

The Changing Of Water Into Wine At Cana 
WHEN these words of the Gospel are understood, and they are certainly clear, all the mysteries which are latent in this miracle of the Lord will be laid open.… Read on
Augustine Of Hippo (354-430)

The Changing Of Water Into Wine Is A Sign Of The Outpuring Of The Holy Spirit 
OUR Lord's turning the water, which was poured out so plentifully, into wine, is a sign of the plentiful pouring out of his Spirit into the hearts of believers.… Read on
George Whitefield (1714-1770)

The Changing Of Water Into Wine Shews Us The Blessedness Of The Heavenly Banquet 
FIFTHLY, and lastly, this shews us the happiness of that blessed state, when we shall all sit together at the marriage supper of the Lamb, and drink of the new wine in his eternal and glorious kingdom!… Read on
George Whitefield (1714-1770)

The Character Of St Thomas The Apostle 
Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed … Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

The Character Of True Peacemakers 
THE peace makers: the word in the original is οι ειρηνοποιοί. It is well known that ειρήνη, in the sacred writings, implies all manner of good … Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Character and Legacy Of The Beloved Disciple 
"Now there was leaning on Jesus's bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved".… Read on
Beilby Porteus (1731-1809)

Charity Covers The Multitude Of Sins By Forbearing The Provocations Of Others 
"Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins" .… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

Charity Does Not Cover The Multitude Of Sins By Allowing Us To Indulge Them 
"Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins" .… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

Charity Is Not An Individual Act But A Consistent Habit 
And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

Charity Is Not Just About Giving Food, But About Giving Dignity 
IT IS proposed to better the condition of the labourer by giving him higher wages.… Read on
John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Charity Must Be Rooted In Justice And In Domestic Order 
THE second qualification annexed to charity in the text is, that it be of a good conscience.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

Charity Must Begin With The Family 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. ST. JOHN the Apostle and Evangelist is chiefly and most familiarly known to us as "the disciple whom Jesus loved".… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

Charity Must Touch Every Part Of Our Daily Lives 
OUR charity must be also consistent and uniform; there are many, who are content to shew their charity in one way only, and no more… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

Charity Requires Daily Acts Of Kindness And Constant Recourse To Divine Grace 
ALL these good feelings, and good principles, will soon perish and fade away within us… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

The Child Jesus Is Given Into Our Arms At Candlemas 
WHEN the days of "the blessed Virgin's purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished," forty days after Christ's nativity, this day, just then, "they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord" .… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

The Choice Between The Two Cities, the Visible And The Invisible 
WE are between two cities — the one visible, the other invisible — the one an object of sense, the other of faith — the one garish, splendid, and tumultuous, the other calm, glorious, and serene.… Read on
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

The Choosing Of The Apostles And The Calling Of Christians 
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you; and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

The Choosing Of The Apostles Peter, James, And John 
MULTITUDES, it appears, followed Jesus, attracted by his miracles and his discourses.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

Christ Calls To Those Who Feel The Burden Of Their Sins 
THOU art not called, and canst not be refreshed, unless thou be laden… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

Christ Died For All Mankind, Not Just For The Elect 
THE Catechism of the Church of England established by law, and preserved in our Liturgy as a special part of it, expounds the Creed in this sense, "I believe in God the Father which made me and all the world… Read on
Henry Hammond (1605-1660)

Christ Died For All Men, Though Not All Men Respond To His Offer Of Grace 
I SHALL now briefly show the dreadful absurdities that follow from saying, Christ died only for the elect.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Christ Died For All, But The Fruits Of His Passion Must Be Applied To Each Soul 
THAT disease is curable for which a sovereign medicine may be found, but cured it is not till the medicine be applied to the patient… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

Christ Died So That He Might Always Present The Blood Of His Sacrifice In The Heavenly Sanctuary 
THE second act in the work of Christ’s priesthood [after the cross], is the act of application or virtual continuation of this sacrifice to the end of the world… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

Christ Has Ascended To His Father To Intercede For Us 
THUS the man Christ Jesus, immediately upon His ascension into Heaven, "was set at the right hand of God," advanced to the highest degree of honour in the world, and vested with absolute and supreme authority over all things in it.… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

Christ Has Done Away With All Condemnation 
HEAR this, thou Languishing and afflicted Soul: there is not one of thy sins, but it is paid for… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

Christ In The Communion Is The Comfort Of Our Souls 
BUT let all true worshippers worship one God, one Christ, once corporally made, of one only corporal substance, that is to say, of the blessed Virgin Mary… Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

Christ Is Present Among Us On The Lord’s Day 
OUR reverence for the Lord's day, and our anxiety to join in the public prayers and praises, which the Church of Christ, on this day, offers up to His name, may be greatly increased, by considering the promise which our public, yet more than our private, devotions, have received from Christ, of favour and protection.… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

Christ Is Present In Liturgy As A Spiritual Sun 
AS the sun corporally is ever in heaven, and no where else; and yet by his operation and virtue the sun is here in earth, by whose influence and virtue all things in the world be corporally regenerated, increased, and grow to their perfect state… Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

Christ Is Present In The Holy Sacrament By Spirit And Power 
DO we then exclude Christ altogether from this Holy Sacrament, and leave only an empty Sign, a meer ceremonial Remembrance of him and no more?… Read on
William Wake (1657-1737)

Christ Is Present In The Imposition Of Hands In Ordination 
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

Christ Is Present In The Sacraments In His Very Own Person 
WHEN the Apostle saith of the Jews, that they crucified the Lord of Glory … Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

Christ Must Be Offered To Us, As Well As For Us 
IT IS fit therefore we should know who is our redeemer. Now, as I have shewed you the last day, it is Jesus Christ… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

Christ The Physician In The Holy Communion 
THIS will teach us, Domine quid est homo? "What is man, that Thou shouldest visit him?"… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Christ Upon The Altar Is The Abiding Victim Of The Sacrifice Of Calvary 
THE holy Fathers say very often that the Body of Christ itself is offered and sacrificed in the Eucharist, as is clear from almost numberless places… Read on
William Forbes (1585-1634)

The Christian Calling And Inheritance 
YE see your calling, brethren. We are called to be "a habitation of God through his Spirit" … Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Christian Citizenship Should Be Positive And Energetic 
ON the first promulgation of Christianity, it is true, some of her early converts seem to have been in danger of so far mistaking the principles of the new religion, as to imagine that in future they were to be discharged from an active attendance on their secular affairs.… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

The Christian Creed Is Gathered Out Of The Scriptures 
BUT in learning the Faith and in professing it, acquire and keep that only, which is now delivered to thee by the Church, and which has been built up strongly out of all the Scriptures.… Read on
Cyril Of Jerusalem (?315-386)

Christian Episcopacy Is Divine Authority 
WHY first, our Saviour Himself chose twelve Apostles out of the whole number of His Disciples, and made them Bishops, and advanced over the Presbyters, and all other believing Christians, and gave them the name of Bishops as well as of Apostles… Read on
William Laud (1573-1645)

Christian Faith Is Indispensable To Sound Medicine 
REFLECTING today on the case of a poor woman who had continual pain in her stomach, I could not but remark the inexcusable negligence of most physicians in cases of this nature.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Christian Obedience Is Compatible With Secular Employment 
OH, BLESSED saint of the day, that we could but leave these nets as thou didst thine, that nothing might any longer entangle us, or keep us from our Master's service!… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Christian Patriotism Will Make You Unpopular 
TO tread the middle course is so frequently the policy of the insincere, that we shall never persuade the world that a sense of duty disposes us to shun each extreme… Read on
Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872)

Christian Priesthood Established By The Apostles 
THE apostles have preached the Gospel to us from the Lord Jesus Christ… Read on
Clement Of Rome (early 2nd century)

Christian Priesthood Is Superior To Old Testament Priesthood 
ONE and the same Christ is in the Old Testament as well as in the New.… Read on
William Laud (1573-1645)

Christian Priests Are Officers, Not Mediators Between God And Men 
THE kingdom of Christ, not being a kingdom of this world, is not limited by the restrictions which fetter other societies, political or religious.… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

The Christian Socialism Of Hugh Latimer Was Neither Puritan Nor Communist 
RIGHTEOUSNESS — righteousness as shown in personal life and social dealing, the social reforms which are necessary to vindicate and establish the righteousness among us in England, the motives and threatenings and encouragements which the doctrine of Christ supplies for one who hungers and thirsts after this righteousness — these things are first in his mind… Read on
Charles Gore (1853-1932)

Christian Virtue Depends On Free and Loving Choice 
SO, too, no good work can profit an unbeliever to justification and salvation… Read on
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Christian Virtue Is Not Like Secular Regulation 
THE use of many of the precepts and maxims of Scripture, is not so much to prescribe actions, as to generate some certain turn and habit of thinking… Read on
William Paley (1743-1805)

Christian Zeal Must Never Become Coercion 
IN THIS thing καλόν ζηλούσθαι, 'it is a good thing to be zealous', and put forth all your strength, for you can never go too far.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Christianity Calls Us To Regulate Our Strong Feelings, Not To Repress Them 
LET us attend to the sympathy and compassion which our Lord discovered for the sufferings of mankind.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

Christianity Is Not A Faith Of Political Revolutionism 
HE not only disengaged himself from the difficulties in which the question was meant to involve him, but, without entering into any political discussions, he laid down two doctrines of the very last importance to the peace and happiness of man kind, and the stability of civil government.… Read on
Beilby Porteus (1731-1809)

Christianity Is Not About Cold Ideas But Is A Warm Devotion To Christ As King 
IS Christianity then reduced to a mere creed? Is its practical influence bounded within a few external plausibilities?… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

Christianity Must Stay True To Judaism 
THE belief that the present condition of the Jewish race is a penal infliction for the part which some Jews took at the crucifixion is not dogmatically sound.… Read on
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Christians Are Called To Challenge Totalitarianism 
I'VE always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might.… Read on
Ronald Reagan

Christians Must Use Their Judgment Rather Than Rely On Rules 
There is probably no serious Christian, who has not at some time or other felt inwardly pained, to think that he does not fulfil, that he makes no earnest attempt to fulfil, that the circumstances of life will not allow him to fulfil, certain precepts of our Lord to the letter.… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

Christians Need To Set An Example 
THE enemies of religion are sometimes apt to compare the irreligious man, of a temper naturally sweet and amiable, with the religious man of natural roughness and severity… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

Christians Should Not Fear Death, Having Gained The Comfort Of Christ 
WHY should we Christians fear death? Can death deprive us of Christ, which is all our comfort, our joy, and our life I Nay, forsooth.… Read on
Nicholas Ridley (1500-1555)

Christians Walk In The Way Of The Lord In The Riches Of Faith And Good Works 
FOR God looketh whether those words come from the heart being contrite, which if they did, amendment of the evil life should ensue, & good works should spring out, where the evil did grow before, which new spring of good works is the fruit of penance.… Read on
Cuthbert Tunstall (1474-1559)

Christianty Should Not Become A Matter Of Academic Or Party Rivalry 
Wherefore the rather, Brethren, give Diligence, to make your Calling and Election sure.… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

Christ’s Blessings Are All Actions Of His Everlasting Priesthood 
YET seeing he entered not into the heavenly sanctuary without blood, seeing he purified even heaven itself by his blood, we may not expect the blessing promised unto Abraham otherwise than by the virtue of his blood, nor may we expect that his blood or virtue of it should be communicated unto us, otherwise than by the exercise or office of his everlasting priesthood, unto which he was consecrated by his blood.… Read on
Thomas Jackson (1579-1640)

Christ’s Jubilee Year And The Liberty Of The Captives 
OUR blessed Saviour, by that which he hath performed on his part, hath procured a jubilee for the sons of Adam, and his Gospel is his trumpet, whereby he doth proclaim "liberty to the captives, and preacheth the acceptable year of the Lord" If for all this some are so well pleased with their captivity that they desire no deliverance, that derogates nothing from the generality of the freedom annexed to that year.… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

Christ’s Presence In The Eucharist Is A Mystery 
AFTER supper JESUS took bread and blessed it, and made it to be a heavenly gift.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Church Fathers Tell Us How The Sacrament Of The Altar Is Changed, And Changes Us 
WE AFFIRM that bread and wine are holy and heavenly mysteries of the body and blood of Christ, and that by them Christ Himself, being the true bread of eternal life, is so presently given unto us as that by faith we verily receive his body and his blood.… Read on
John Jewel (1522-1571)

The Church Is A Fellowship In One Faith, Baptism and Lord 
Here, then, is a clear unexceptionable answer to that question, "What is the Church?"… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Church Must Not Be The Plaything Of The State 
THERE follows another attempt, which had its chief expression in England, and especially at the period of the Reformation, the attempt to regard the Church and the State as in fact the same society in different aspects.… Read on
Charles Gore (1853-1932)

The Church Of England Doctrine Of Predestination And Election 
IN these great points all agree: that mercy is freely offered to the world in Christ Jesus… Read on
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715)

The Church Of England Is Governed By Different Principles To The Reformed Churches 
OUR Church, you know, goes upon differing principles from the rest of the Reformed, and so steers her course by another rule than they do.… Read on
Joseph Mede (1586-1638)

Church Windows 
LORD, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Church of England And Political Loyalties 
IT is a church of England man's opinion, that the freedom of a nation consists in an absolute unlimited legislative power, wherein the whole body of the people are fairly represented… Read on
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Clear Teaching Renders Gestures Of Devotion In The Liturgy Commendable 
IF the simple people be so devout, and so reverently disposed in the darkness, without any teaching, or understanding, much more would they reverently and devoutly dispose themselves, if they heard the godly prayers, and understood them.… Read on
John Jewel (1522-1571)

Clergy Are Called To Attack Vice In Ways Laws Cannot 
THE duty of the magistrate and the priest are the same as to the general object of their pursuit, but the immediate point, to which they will direct their attention, will be different.… Read on
Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872)

Clergy May Marry, But Like Soldiers Must Be Ready To Give Themselves For The Cause 
ST PAUL indeed doth exhort Timothy after this manner: Suffer thou evil as a noble soldier of Jesus Christ.… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

Clergy Must Foster Local Customs 
THE Country Parson is a lover of old customs, if they be good and harmless… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

Clergy Must Persist In Preaching The Gospel 
THE Christian Preacher is zealously to allot an extraordinary measure of exertion to those branches of religion, whether doctrinal or practical, which he discovers to be grossly misunderstood, or lightly regarded, by many of his congregation.… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

Clergy Must Preach The Whole Gospel, Not Just Cherished Parts Of It 
THE Christian Preacher is to preach the whole of the Gospel. He is to magnify the justice no less conspicuously than the mercy of Jehovah.… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

Clergy Should Avoid Siding With Secular Social Theory 
IT cannot be doubted, that in many cases the sentiments of others, as well as our own, of men whose religious opinions we should be inclined to regard with much respect, are often warped by the false ideas of society.… Read on
Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872)

Clergy Should Not Expect Congregations To Finance False Teaching 
LET me desire the rightaiming ministers of Christ, to consider what is expedient as well as what is lawful, and that the saving of one soul is better than a thousand pounds a year, and our gain, though due, is a cursed gain, which is a stumblingblock to our people's souls… Read on
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

A Clergyman Should Take Particular Interest In Counselling 
HE greatly esteems also of cases of conscience; wherein he is much versed.… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

A Clergyman’s Sources Of Knowledge Besides Holy Scripture 
THE Country Parson hath read the fathers also, and the schoolmen, and the later writers, or a good proportion of all… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Close Analogy Between Baptism And Circumcision 
THAT the intention and advantage of the federal rite of the Jews were in many, nay, in most particulars, very closely answerable to the intention and advantages of baptism, is an assertion which even a moderate acquaintance with the Old Testament and the writings of St.… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

The Cloud Of Witnesses That Surrounds Us 
WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Coercion Cannot Achieve What Persuasion Can 
A MAN convinced of the truth of his own tenets, wishing the happiness of others, and considering happiness as the certain consequence of truth, is necessarily prompted to extend his opinions, and to fill the world with proselytes.… Read on
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Comfort Afforded By The Holy Sacrament 
AS many as will feed upon him, shall attain to everlasting life, they shall never die… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

The Comfort Afforded By The Visitation Of The Sick 
LET us seek to act conscientiously as members of the English Church… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

The Comfort For Married Persons That Comes From The Wedding At Cana 
THERE was a marriage, saith the evangelist. This is a comfortable place for all married folks… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

The Coming Of Christ In Glory Gives Meaning And Value To Human Life 
"BE wise now therefore, O ye kings; be learned ye that are judges of the earth."… Read on
Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846)

The Coming Of The Son Of Man In Glory 
BUT "who is this that comes?" So the Prophet once; so we now. Or in what shape will he appear?… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

The Commemorative Sacrifice In The Eucharist 
THOUGH the Eucharist be a Sacrifice, (that is, an oblation wherein the offerer banquets with his God,) yet is Christ in this Sacrifice no otherwise offered, than by way of commemoration only of His Sacrifice once offered upon the cross, as a learned Prelate of ours† hath lately written, objective only, not subjective.… Read on
Joseph Mede (1586-1638)

The Commemorative Sacrifice Of The Eucharist 
FOR when our blessed Lord and Saviour had, by that one offering of Himself once for all, "perfected for ever all them that are sanctified," and "by His own blood entered into the holy place" and "obtained eternal redemption for us," there was forthwith an end of all those sacrifices in the law, by which this one of His had been prefigured.… Read on
Peter Heylyn (1600-1662)

The Commination Service Explained 
THIS office the Church confesses not to be ancient, but appointed instead of An Ancient godly discipline of putting notorious sinners to open repentance, which being lost with us, Holy Church wishes might be restored again.… Read on
Anthony Sparrow (1612-1685)

The Communion Bread Is The Body Of Christ Just As The Dove Was The Holy Ghost 
AND when the Scripture saith, Upon whomsoever thon shalt see the Holy Ghost coming down… Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

The Communion Is A Sacrifice, But Christ Is Not Offered Anew 
NOW we acknowledge, that every act of obedience and of worship more especially, may, agreeably to the language of Scripture, be spoken of as a sacrifice to our Maker… Read on
Thomas Secker (1693-1768)

A Comparison Between The Eucharist And The Incarnation 
THE bread and the wine are not merely figures of the body and blood of Christ … Read on
John Damascene (7th-8th centuries)

A Comparison Between The Names ‘Jesus’ And ‘Christ’ 
THIS word, Salvation, Jashang, is the root of the name of Jesus. In the beginning of the primitive church, when the followers of Christ left or discontinued their being called the disciples, and the faithful, and the brethren, and the professors, as they had been called before, and would bring the name of their founder, Christ Jesus, into more evidence and manifestation, yet they were not called by the name of Jesus, but from Christ… Read on
John Donne (1572-1631)

Compulsory Redistribution Of Property Is Against God’s Laws 
SOME are apt to repine at the unequal Division of the Goods of Fortune, and think that they have as good a natural Right to a Share of the World, as those who at present possess it… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

Concerning A Vain Trust In Predestination 
AND it is no doubt, but although we be once justified, yet we may fall therefrom by our own freewill and consenting unto sin, and following the desires thereof… Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

Concerning Children Who Die Unbaptized 
SOME make doubt of those infants, the children of the faithful, which depart before baptism, whether they be saved or not.… Read on
John Jewel (1522-1571)

Concerning Monday And Tuesday In Easter Week 
THESE two holy-days have been very anciently annexed to the feast of Easter, and were the set days of a public and solemn baptizing of many multitudes of people together… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

Concerning Sin And Repentance After Baptism 
HAPPILY for our Church, the framers of its rituals took their doctrine from the general tenor and promises of Scripture… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

Concerning The Chancel And Sanctuary 
THE chancel was divided from the body of the church, cancellis, whence it is called the chancel.… Read on
Anthony Sparrow (1612-1685)

Concerning ‘First’ And ‘Final’ Justification 
THERE are two sorts of justification spoken of by the Apostle, namely, a first, and a final justification… Read on
Owen Manning (1721-1801)

Confession As Part Of The Visitation Of The Sick 
THE fact that, both here and in the exhortation to the Holy Communion the duty of Confession is recognized, the fact that Absolution is directed to be given in the most direct form, these facts are seized upon by the Protestant opponents of the Church of England, and made grounds of cavil.… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

Confession Is Constant Practice From Apostolic Times 
THE question with us is simply, what does the Church of England teach… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

Confession To A Priest Is Not Necessary, But It Is Helpful 
THE Church of England, howsoever it holdeth not Confession and Absolution Sacramental that is made unto and received from a Priest to be so absolutely necessary, as without it there can be no remission of sins, yet by this place [i.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

Confidence In Christ Should Not Blind Us To The Need For Self-Examination 
CONFIDENCE in Christ, whether conditional or absolute, little signifies, is common to the good and the bad, so that, if this be the last step and perfection of justifying faith, certainly every wicked man may boast of his salvation.… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

The Consecration Of Bishops And Their Office 
OUR Bishops are consecrated by at least three Bishops, who have themselves been previously consecrated The Holy Spirit is invoked, and the hands of the consecrating Bishops are laid on the head of the Bishop to be consecrated as he humbly kneels.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

Conservatism And Socialism Contrasted 
How do you understand the relation between Christianity and personal liberty in the economic and political sectors?… Read on
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)

Consider The Price That Was Paid For Thee 
CONSIDER the invaluable price that was paid for thee, and how great he was who paid it… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

Constant Communion Is For The Good Of Your Soul 
LET every one, therefore, who has either any desire to please God, or any love of his own soul, obey God, and consult the good of his own soul, by communicating every time he can… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Contemplations Upon The Transfiguration Of Our Lord Jesus Christ 
THE light caused wonder in the disciples; but the voice, astonishment. They are all fallen down upon their faces.… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

Contraception And Self-Control 
HOW tremendous is the claim of Christ for self-control, even when it involves something like spiritual mutilation — the cutting off our right hand and the plucking out our right eye!… Read on
Charles Gore (1853-1932)

Contraception And The Right Enjoyment Of Sexual Passion 
NOW, however, I would come back to 'the thing in itself' and justify the Church in calling it 'unnatural' and contrary to the Christian standard.… Read on
Charles Gore (1853-1932)

Courteous Virtue Will Win More To Christianity Than Harsh Strictness 
THAT a precept of courtesy is by no means unworthy of the gravity and dignity of an apostolical mandate, may be gathered from the pernicious effects which all must have observed to have arisen from harsh strictness and sour virtue… Read on
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Courtesy Is Founded On Love For Our Redeemer 
SHALL we endeavour to go a little deeper to search the foundation of this matter?… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Cruelty Of Abortion And Sterilisation 
SOMETIMES, indeed, this lustful cruelty, or if you please, cruel lust, resorts to such extravagant methods as to use poisonous drugs to secure barrenness… Read on
Augustine Of Hippo (354-430)

Cultivating Worthwhile Acquaintance 
ANNE was ashamed. Had Lady Dalrymple and her daughter even been very agreeable, she would still have been ashamed of the agitation they created, but they were nothing.… Read on
Jane Austen (1775-1817)


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The Danger Of Not Recognising Truth In Humble Garb 
THIS is the great lesson of Pilate's crime. He was surprised by the Truth.… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

The Dangers For The Church Arising From Internal Divisions 
WE should be exhorted to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

The Dangers Of A Want Of Education Among The Poor 
THE want of education is a barrier which nothing but the most uncommon powers can pass… Read on
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)

The Dangers Of Living An Urban Existence 
THE first danger which awaits those who "dwell in cities," is that of losing insensibly the sentiments of Piety.… Read on
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)

The Dangers Of Misplaced Love 
WHAT, is love the mother of contention? Yes, love misplaced is. In Acts, chap.… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

The Dangers Of Political Conspiracy Against Christianity 
NOT for two thousand years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate Christ from its social and political life without a terrible consequence.… Read on
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)

A Defence Of Baptising Infants 
IN baptism we are born again; and this infants need in the present circumstances, and for the same great reason that men of age and reason do.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

A Defence Of The Title “Mother Of God” For Mary 
THE same may be observed of the third General Council held at Ephesus… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

A Defence Of The Word “Consubstantial” In The Creed 
AND therefore it is observable, that the Church never undertook publicly to determine any truth, until it was first denied… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

The Definition Of The Faith In The Incarnation 
WHEREFORE, following the holy Fathers, we all with one voice confess our Lord Jesus Christ one and the same Son, the same perfect in Godhead, the same perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man, the same consisting of a reasonable soul and a body, of one substance with the Father as touching the Godhead, the same of one substance with us as touching the manhood, like us in all things apart from sin begotten of the Father before the ages as touching the Godhead, the same in the last days, for us and for our salvation, born from the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos … Read on
Council Of Chalcedon (451)

The Descent of Christ Into Hell 
I THANK God, and with joy I mention it, I was never afraid of Hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place.… Read on
Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

The Difference Between Christianity And Other Religions Regarding Holiness 
BUT all men of enlightened understandings, who acknowledge the moral government of God, must also acknowledge that vice must offend and virtue delight him.… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

Directions Concerning Preachers 
I. THAT no preacher under the degree and calling of a bishop, or dean of a cathedral or collegiate church, and they upon the king's days and set festivals, do take occasion by the expounding of any text of scripture whatsoever, to fall into any set discourse, or common place … Read on
James I Of England (1566-1625)

The Disease Of Our Age Is The Novel Interpretation Of Scripture 
NOW from these two sorts of persons proceeded those two several means whereby, as it were in two moulds, all imaginations have been cast, and the truth of God's word ever perverted.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Disputes Over Justification Are Unhappy Disputes 
IT was an unhappy division that has been made betwixt faith and works, — though in my intellect I may divide them, just as in the candle I know there is both heat and light.… Read on
John Selden (1584-1654)

The Distillation Of Christ’s Life And Immortality Into The Holy Sacrament 
THE spirit of life, whereby our adoption and election is sealed unto us, is the real participation of Christ's body, which was broken, and of Christ's blood, which was shed for us.… Read on
Thomas Jackson (1579-1640)

Divine Grace And Natural Reason Support Each Other Through Liberty 
IF YOU ASK US what evidence we have to shew, that we have received this promise of the gospel [i.… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

The Divinity Of The Son Of God Proved From His Own Words In Scripture 
AND I cannot but observe further; that our Saviour does not say, before Abraham was, I was, but before Abraham was, I AM… Read on
John Tillotson (1630-1694)

Do Not Be Afraid To Receive Holy Communion 
HE says, "Do this." Why do you not? You answer, "I am unworthy to do it."… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Do Not Expect The Sacred Writers To Use All Terms With Mathematical Precision 
WHEN it is contended, however, that the term "elect," or that any other scriptural expression, is to be interpreted in this or in that sense, this must be understood in reference to the particular passages in question, or to the generality… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

Do Not Expect Too Much Of Friends And Family 
IN the sixth place, let me advise you never to expect too much from the world.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

Do Not Forsake God, And He Will Never Forsake You 
THIS comparison of our behaviour with our principles, is the only ground of hope, which a Christian can have… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

Do Not Let Bad Education Or Company Discourage You From Pursuing Christian Virtue 
AND this advice I give, that we not merely peruse what is written there, but that we also emulate it, and make neither place, nor education, nor forefathers’ wickedness an excuse.… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

Do Not Listen To Academic Debates On The Trinity 
SINCE the world abounds with pestilent books particularly written against this doctrine of the Trinity, it is fit to inform you, that the authors of them proceed wholly upon a mistake… Read on
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Do Not Listen To Discouraging Words About The Power Of Prayer 
WHAT petitioner ever met with so many bitter checks and discouragements? Yet she bore them patiently, and persevered through them all… Read on
Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846)

Do Not Presume On God’s Grace, But Feel Contrition For Your Sins 
I KNOW how ready every man is to reach forth his hand to this dole of grace, and how angry to be beaten from this door of mercy.… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

Do Not Pry Into The Mystery Of Predestination 
WE read in the apostles, that when St. Paul had made a long sermon at Antioch, there believed, saith the evangelist, "as many as were ordained to everlasting life… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

Do Not Rely On One Lone Prayer To Obtain Your Desires 
RELY NOT on a single prayer in matters of great concernment, but make it as public as you can by obtaining of others to pray for you… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Doctrine Of Christian Perfection In The Book Of Common Prayer 
OUR Church can never be so inconsistent as to level her articles against what she ardently prays for in her liturgy… Read on
John William Fletcher (1729-1785)

The Doctrine Of Imputed Righteousness Is Foreign To The Prayer Book 
WHEN our Lord instructed his hearers to be pure in heart, and gentle and forgiving, and liberal, and to do to others as they would be done by, &c.… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

The Doctrine Of The Trinity Brings Us Closer To The Mystery Of God 
I TRUST I have brought out distinctly my thought that the doctrine of the Trinity is propounded to us by the Church, not as an enigma, but as a help towards the solution of an enigma which is on our hands whether we will or no.… Read on
William Reed Huntington (1838-1909)

The Doctrine Of The Trinity Is Best Honoured As A Mystery 
I DESIRE it may be well considered, that there is a wide difference between the nice Speculations of the Schools, beyond what is revealed in Scripture, concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity, and what the Scripture only teaches and asserts concerning this Mystery.… Read on
John Tillotson (1630-1694)

The Doctrine Of The Trinity Is Evident From Holy Writ 
OUR belief, however, of this fundamental article of the Christian faith is not dependent upon presumptive evidence of this description.… Read on
William Van Mildert (1765-1836)

The Doctrine Of The Trinity Matters, But Not Necessarily In Those Words 
THERE are ten thousand mistakes which may consist with real religion; with regard to which every candid, considerate man will think and let think.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Doing Away With Tradition Undermines Our Preaching Of The Gospel 
WHEN our Lord came to John to be baptized, He gave this reason for it, "Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

The Duties And Rights Of Man And Wife Are Exactly The Same 
BUT as the earth, the mother of all creatures here below, sends up all its vapours and proper emissions at the command of the sun, and yet requires them again to refresh her own needs, and they are deposited between them both in the bosom of a cloud, as a common receptacle, that they may cool his flames, and yet descend to make her fruitful… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Duties Of A Conscientious Parson 
"We shall be the losers," continued Sir Thomas. "His going, though only eight miles, will be an unwelcome contraction of our family circle… Read on
Jane Austen (1775-1817)

The Duties Of Christian Subjects And Their Rulers 
WE make it also our principal endeavor in every place to pay tribute and custom to such officers as are appointed by you, even as we have been taught by him.… Read on
Justin Martyr (?100-?165)

The Duties Of Parents Toward Their Children 
THE duty of parents to their children and nephews is briefly described by St.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Duties Of Priests 
AND let the presbyters be compassionate and merciful to all, bringing back those that wander, visiting all the sick, and not neglecting the widow, the orphan, or the poor, but always "providing for that which is becoming in the sight of God and man" … Read on
Polycarp Of Smyrna (?69-?155)

The Duty Of Clergy Is To Preach The Authentic Gospel 
A CHRISTIAN Preacher is not to set before the congregation a system of religion in part devised or modified by his own fancy.… Read on
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The Effect Of The Sacraments Is More Important Than Our Explanation For It 
WHEREAS, therefore, there are but three expositions made of, "This is my Body… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

The Election Of The Christian Church Compared With That Of Israel 
THE apostle, accordingly, himself expressly points out the correspondence between their case and that of the children of Israel… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

The English Church Has Always Been Governed By Bishops 
A THOUSAND five hundred years and upward the Church of Christ hath now continued under the sacred regiment of Bishops.… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

The English Church Keeps Apostolic Traditions Whether Written Or Unwritten 
THEY which add Traditions, as a part of supernatural necessary truth, have not the truth, but are in error.… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

The English Divines On The Effects Of Baptism 
MEN of all schools of thought in the Church of Christ have been forward to assert in every possible shape and way that God meets the sinner vtdth the grace of the New Covenant when he first enters into it.… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

Episcopacy Is Divinely Instituted And May Not Be Abolished 
AS for that form of Episcopal Government, which hath hitherto obtained in the Church of God, I confess I am confounded in myself, to bear with what unjust clamours it is cried down abroad, by either weak or factious persons… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

The Eternity Of The Son Of God 
IN the Beginning of St. John's Gospel we find him thus described: In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

The Eucharist Abolishes Our Temples Of Sin And Raises Us As Temples Of Christ 
OUR bodies, as we use the matter—many of us, are far from Temples; rather prostibula than Templa, 'brothel-houses, brokers'-shops, wine-casks, or I wot not what, rather than Temples.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Eucharist Has Been Calling An Offering Since The Earliest Times 
IT must be acknowledged, that the one great Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross is the only true Sacrifice of the Christian Religion, as by one true Sacrifice is understood the one great Sacrifice of propitiation for Sin, which was the Truth and Completion of all the typical Sacrifices-, but then his Opinion, that there is no other external material Oblation in the Christian Religion, no offering at God's Altar, but only eating something that comes from it, add that the mystical or sacramental Body, and Blood of Christ, of which we partake at the Lord's Table, are not there offered up unto God, if there were no other Reasons, is to be rejected, as of no Authority, because it is New, and contrary to the consentient Belief, and Practice of all Churches for above fifteen hundred Years.… Read on
George Hickes (1642-1715)

The Eucharist Is A Memorial Offering In Bread And Wine 
WE do not think we offer another Sacrifice, but only continue and perpetuate that which Christ offered… Read on
John Johnson (1662-1725)

The Eucharist Is A Sacrifice By Reason Of Its Words, Its Time, And Its Purpose 
WHAT reason, then, have we for accounting the Eucharist, or celebration of Holy Communion, as a sacrifice?… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

The Eucharist Is A True Offering And Partaking Of The Body And Blood Of Christ 
BUT this Institution is not a bare Memorial of Christ's. Death, but the Means of our partaking of the Benefits which he purchased for us, and on God's Part a visible Pledge to assure us thereof.… Read on
William Webster (1689-1758)

The Eucharist Is And Ever Was Considered A Sacrifice 
THE Eucharist ever was, and by us is considered, both as a Sacrament, and as a Sacrifice.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Eucharist Is Life-Giving By The Vitality Of Christ Himself 
FOR the life therein bestowed is greater than any gift, since it is life in Christ, life through His indwelling, Himself Who is Life.… Read on
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882)

The Eucharist Is Not A Bare Sign Of Faith, But An Action Of The Holy Ghost 
WE may consecrate the elements of bread and wine, and administer them so consecrated as undoubted pledges of his body and blood, by which the new covenant was sealed, and the general pardon purchased… Read on
Thomas Jackson (1579-1640)

The Eucharist Is Not A Form Of Preaching But An Act Of Worship 
IF the Eucharist be an act of worship, then it is a very serious matter indeed for those who deny that it is such, or for those who through apathy, or want of attention, or thought, neglect to realise it to be such… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

The Eucharist Is The Spiritual Nourishment Of Those Recalled To Life 
THE two great Sacraments, as their very signs shew, have not the same end.… Read on
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882)

The Eucharistic Sacrifice And Our Timeless Worship 
FIRST you say, we have renounced your Sacrifice of the Mass. If the Sacrifice of the Mass be the same with the Sacrifice of the Cross, we attribute more unto it than yourselves… Read on
John Bramhall (1594-1663)

The Eucharistic Sacrifice And The Open Heaven 
FOR the priestly office is indeed discharged on earth, but it ranks amongst heavenly ordinances… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

The Eucharistic Sacrifice Is The Whole Action Of The Liturgy 
WE make provision with the greatest reverence for the consecration of the holy Eucharist and commit it only to properly ordained Priests and to no other ministers of the Church.… Read on
Church Of England (1897)

Evangelicalism In Its Best Light 
OH! my dear Fanny, the more I write about him, the warmer my feelings become, the more strongly I feel the sterling worth of such a young Man & the desirableness of your growing in love with him again.… Read on
Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Even When Jesus Seems Not To Hear Our Prayers, He Does As We Have Bidden Him 
YOU that are poor in this world's goods, and thereby are disabled from helping, yet you may learn from the Virgin, to pray for one another.… Read on
George Whitefield (1714-1770)

Everything Is Shared In The Marriage Of Christ And The Soul 
THE third incomparable grace of faith is this: that it unites the soul to Christ, as the wife to the husband, by which mystery, as the Apostle teaches, Christ and the soul are made one flesh.… Read on
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

The Excellence Of St Cuthbert As A Bishop 
IN THE SAME YEAR in which King Egfrid [Ecgfrith of Northumbria, 645-685] departed this life, he, as has been said, caused the holy and venerable Cuthbert to be ordained bishop of the church of Lindisfarne.… Read on
Bede (672/3-735)

An Exhortation To The Members Of The Church Of England 
GIVE me leave to speak freely to you, of the Church you live in… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)


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Faith And Holiness Are The Christian’s Wedding Garment 
NO one can read this passage without an earnest inquiry, what is the wedding garment?… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

Faith Is The Instrument Of The Application Of Christ’s Blood 
THE third thing I noted besides faith and justification, was, that we must observe what relation one hath to the other… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

Faith Is The Living Presence Of God 
FAITH is not what some people think it is. Their human dream is a delusion.… Read on
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Faith Opens Our Eyes To The Angels About Us 
SURELY, the angels of God are inseparably with us; yea, whole cohorts, yea, whole legions of those heavenly soldiery are now viewing and guarding us in these holy meetings… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

The False Prophets And The Wisdom That Comes From Above 
THE Jews had suffered much from false prophets: "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

The Father Is The Ground Of Unity In The Trinity 
THERE is one and the same Person [prospon] of the Father, from whom the Son is begotten, and the Holy Spirit proceeds.… Read on
Gregory Of Nyssa (296-373)

The Feast And Celebration Of The Christian Passover Sacrifice In The Eucharist 
Eορτάζωμεν, the word is one, but two ways it is turned. Some read Celebremus, some other Epulemur ["let us feast"].… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Feeding Of The Five Thousand And The Holy Communion 
THE five loaves signified the five books of Moses' Law. The old Law is barley compared to the Gospel wheat.… Read on
Augustine Of Hippo (354-430)

A Firm Assurance Of The Bodily Resurrection Of The Dead 
WE BELIEVE also in the resurrection of the dead. For there will be in truth, there will be, a resurrection of the dead, and by resurrection we mean resurrection of bodies .… Read on
John Damascene (7th-8th centuries)

Five Reflections On The Perfect Gifts We Receive From Above 
Err not, my dear brethren. Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Five Teachings On The Eucharist On Which All May Agree 
IT is on all sides plainly confessed, first, that this Sacrament is a true and real participation of Christ, who thereby imparteth himself, even his whole entire Person, as a mystical Head, unto every soul that receiveth him, and that every such receiver doth thereby incorporate or unite himself unto Christ as a mystical member of him, yea, of them also whom he acknowledgeth to be his own.… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

Five Ways In Which Christ Fulfilled The Old Testament 
THERE certainly are points in the law, and circumstances in the history, of the Jews, to which the death of Jesus appears to bear a more or less direct relation.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

Flee to God In Times Of Trouble 
TO GOD therefore must we flee or else shall we never find peace, rest, and quietness of conscience in our hearts.… Read on
The First Book Of Homilies (1547)

The Flesh Of Christ Drives Out Corruption From Body And Soul 
HEREIN too ought we specially to admire the holy Evangelist openly crying, And the Word was made Flesh.… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

For Good Reason Is A Church Called A House Of Prayer, Not Of Preaching 
PRAYER is the principal and most noble part of God's worship, and to be preferred before preaching… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

For Our Prayers To Be Effectual, We Must Pray In Charity With Our Neighbours 
ANOTHER Condition that God requires in our Prayers, in order to their being effectual, is, that we pray in Charity.… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

For Our Salvation, The Demands Of Righteousness Had To Be Met 
"Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Forgiveness Depends On An Honest Appraisal Of Sin 
This wrong done to another, what is it but a wrong done to God to God in the person of Christ?… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

The Four Senses In Which We May Be The Children Of God 
IN the first and lowest sense, all men are children of God by creation.… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

Free Thinking Must Reject Fashionable Trends 
NOW, there are no doubt some speculative or curious people who find the sceptical temper with its attendant uncertainties tolerable or even enjoyable enough.… Read on
Charles Gore (1853-1932)

From The Beginning Of Time, Men Have Been Justified By Faith 
SEEING, therefore, that we are the portion of the Holy One, let us do all those things which pertain to holiness, avoiding all evil-speaking, all abominable and impure embraces, together with all drunkenness, seeking after change, all abominable lusts, detestable adultery, and execrable pride.… Read on
Clement Of Rome (early 2nd century)

The Fulness Of Everlasting Life 
AND SO, growing from grace to grace, finally from this "fulness" we shall come to be partakers of another yet behind, to which we aspire.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)


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Gathering All To Christ 
That in the dispensations of the fulness of times, He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are on earth even in Him.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Gentle Evangelism Of St Aidan 
IT is reported, that when King Oswald had asked a bishop of the Scots to administer the word of faith to him and his nation, there was first sent to him another man of more austere disposition, who, meeting with no success, and being unregarded by the English people, returned home, and in an assembly of the elders reported, that he had not been able to do any good to the nation he had been sent to preach to, because they were uncivilized men, and of a stubborn and barbarous disposition.… Read on
Bede (672/3-735)

The Gift Of The Holy Ghost Cannot Be Separated From Our Unity Of Accord 
"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place" NOW then take the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of spirits, the third Person in Trinity… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Giving Employment Is More Patriotic And More Charitable Than Welfare 
AND upon the supposition that men are not to be deterred from wicked acts by the threatened vengeance of God, are considerations connected with a love of country to have no weight?… Read on
William Cobbett (1763-1835)

The Glories Of The English Cathedrals 
CONCERNING our cathedral churches and the service offered up therein, I must remind you, that however useless and unserviceable they have been thought by some, they contribute above all things, highly to the honour of God and his holy religion… Read on
Thomas Bisse (1675-1731)

God Calls All Men To Repentance And Will Welcome All Who Turn To Him 
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.… Read on
Thomas Wilson (1663-1755)

God Decrees That We Are Free 
THIS decree yields the strongest encouragement to abound in all good works and in all holiness… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

God Does Not Deal Alike With All His Children’s Prayers 
GOD deals not always alike with his children, but differently, sometimes he makes them wait his leisure.… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

God Does Not Predestine All Events, But Leaves Many Things To Our Freewill 
What profit should we have, if we pray unto him? IT may very justly be doubted whether God's predestination doth extend to all things and events… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

God Established His Religion By The Spirit, Not Through State Authority 
BUT HE, whose ways are above our ways, and whose thoughts are above our thoughts, as the heavens are above the earth, did not think fit to have it promoted and carried on this way… Read on
John Tillotson (1630-1694)

God Freely Provides Both The Heavenly Banquet And Also The Wedding Garment 
THE guests then in the Parable are evidently meant to be described as not only invited to a sumptuous feast but freely provided, through their host's bounty, with such apparel as suited the occasion… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

God Has Given Us An Easy Religion 
God did not only, give his Son for an example, and the Son gave himself for a price for us, but both gave the Holy Spirit to assist us in mighty graces, for the verifications of faith, and the entertainments of hope, and the increase and perseverance of charity.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

God Has Not Changed Since He Ordered The Glories Of The Temple At Jerusalem 
WITH what great state and deep expence God was served under the Law, no man can be ignorant… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

God Is In The Midst Of Those Who Gather In His Name 
HE is in the midst of them, not only as a spectator, auditor, and observer of what they do, and speak, and think together… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

God Is On Our Side In Adversity 
THE atmosphere through which men look at the actions and the lives of the other men about them is never so absolutely clear that there is no distortion, no undue foreshortening or misplacement in the picture received into the eye.… Read on
William Reed Huntington (1838-1909)

God Respects Human Free Choice 
CALL IT therefore by whatever name you please, election, preterition, predestination, or reprobation, it comes in the end to the same thing.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

God Respects Human Free Will And Does Not Compel Us 
THIS expression [of our Lord], How often would I have gathered your children together, and you would not, set forth the ancient law of human liberty, because God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey the behests of God voluntarily, and not by compulsion of God.… Read on
Irenaeus of Lyons (d. 202)

God Will Be Faithful To His Covenant With The Jews 
So the last shall be first, and the first last; For many be called, but few chosen.… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

God’s Mercies Are Confined To No Times Or Seasons 
IF I should declare what God hath done (done occasionally,) for my soul, where he instructed me for fear of falling, where he raised me when I was fallen, perchance you would rather fix your thoughts upon my illness, and wonder at that, than at God's goodness, and glorify him in that… Read on
John Donne (1572-1631)

God’s Peace Encourages Us Not To Judge Others 
CHRISTIANS do not go out of their way to quarrel with those who declare that they can find the peace of God elsewhere than in the near neighborhood of the cross.… Read on
William Reed Huntington (1838-1909)

Going To Church Is Not Enough By Itself 
OTHERS there are, and by the blessing of God, far more than all the rest, in this nation who present themselves before the great Creator and possessor of the world, in that solemn and reverent manner which the constitutions of our church direct, humbly confessing their manifold sins against God, begging mercy and pardon from him, imploring his favour, and praising his name for all the expressions of his undeserved love to mankind… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

Good Alone And No Evil Comes To Us From God 
Err not, my dear brethren. Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Good Friday Is A Day To Weep For Ourselves, Not For Christ Or Those Who Crucified Him 
WHEN our Lord was led away to be crucified, and the women bewailed and lamented his Misery, he turned about to them, and said, Daughters of "Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves.… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

Good Preaching Should Be Measured By Quality Rather Than Quantity 
YOU must understand that he doth not always feed the best, nor take the greatest pains, which preacheth most often, but he that preacheth most learnedly, most pithily, most orderly, most discreetly, most to edifying.… Read on
John Whitgift (?1530-1604)

The Good Shepherd Consoles And Comforts The Weak 
FIRST he [] says, that the weak sheep are to be comforted. That is, consciences which have but a weak taith, and are of a sorrowful spirit, and are yet very sore, are not to he tyrannically dealt with, and rebuked thus… Read on
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Good Works Are Necessary Alongside A Living Faith 
AS the light cannot be hid, but will show forth itself at one place or other, so a true faith cannot be kept secret… Read on
The First Book Of Homilies (1547)

The Goodness Of God Is Real And Dependable 
ANOTHER notion of moral goodness, which is more particular and restrained… Read on
John Tillotson (1630-1694)

The Gospel Belongs Not To Experts But To Every One Of Us 
O Timothy, keep that which is gommitted to Thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science, falsely so called… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

The Gospel Is Comprehended Under Faith And Repentance 
THE whole Doctrine of the Gospel is comprehended by the Holy Ghost in these two Summaries, Faith and Refentance… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Gospel Of The Incarnation Purifies The Mind 
IT IS the custom moreover of the divinely inspired Scripture to give the name of fire sometimes to the divine and sacred words, and to the efficacy and power which is by the Holy Spirit, and whereby we are made, as I said, "fervent in spirit."… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

Government Must Be Subject To Democratic Checks 
ONE great end undoubtedly of a mixed Government like ours, composed of Monarchy, and of controls, on the part of the higher people and the lower, is that the Prince shall not be able to violate the laws.… Read on
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

The Grace Of Forgiveness By Priestly Absolution 
THERE is another ordinance [Ed.— beside Holy Communion], which is still more distinctly recognized in Scripture as a means by which God engages to meet His people with the grace of forgiveness, and this is Absolution.… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

The Great Experiment Of Liberty Rests On Christian Values 
SO I tell you there are a great many God-fearing, dedicated, noble men and women in public life, present company included.… Read on
Ronald Reagan

Growth In Sanctification Begins At Baptism 
THE doctrine, as deduced from Scripture, that our sanctification is a progressive work, seems almost necessarily to imply that it commences with our Christian life.… Read on
William Van Mildert (1765-1836)

Guidelines For The Composition Of Sacred Music 
FIRST in the compositions for the sanctuary let care be taken that a theatrical levity be avoided, which was the subject of complaint and caution given in the ancient Church … Read on
Thomas Bisse (1675-1731)


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Habit, Freewill, And The Grounds And Limits Of Confidence In Our Coming Salvation 
THE fact is, that the nature of man, and the attributes of God, both combine to render it improbable that those who have long believed in the "good word of God, and the powers of the world to come," should so ultimately fall away, as to crucify the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame."… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

Hands All Round 
FIRST drink a health, this solemn night, A health to England, every guest… Read on
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Happiness Of A Man And His Wife Who Truly Love Each Other 
IF I should court and marry a woman for riches, then, whensoever they fail, or take their flight, my love and my happiness must drop and vanish together with them.… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

Harden Not Your Hearts, But Meekly Receive The Ingrafted Word 
"HARDEN not your hearts, as in the provocation, and as in the temptation in the wilderness."… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

The Harmonious Doctrine Of The Eucharist In The Early Church 
WE may well find different observations in those days: as yet differ one Church consecrating leavened bread, another unleavened… Read on
John Bramhall (1594-1663)

Having Charity Toward Our Neighbours 
CHARITY is to love God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our powers and strength , , .… Read on
The First Book Of Homilies (1547)

The Healing Of The Canaanite Woman 
THE account of this miracle has at first a different appearance from most others.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

Heaven Is The Sure Spring To Follow Our Winter Of Afflications 
HOW many are there, in every congregation, to whom this similitude may apply!… Read on
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)

Hold Fast To The Traditional Gospel And Avoid Novelties In Doctrine 
WE must be sure to observe this apostolical rule, to hold fast the form of sound words… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

The Holy Communion And The Manger 
THE Sacrament we shall have besides, and of the Sacrament we may well say, Hoc erit signum ['this shall be for a sign'].… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Holy Communion And The Song Of The Angels 
LET me say this farther; it is the last word in the Sacrament, "this is a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving," and the whole text resolves into laudatium Deum ['praising God'], and not to praise Him alone, but to praise Him with this hymn of Angels.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Holy Communion Is A Memorial Of Christ’s Paschal Sacrifice Offered For All Men 
AND as Baptism thus comes in the place of the Jews' Circumcision, so doth our Lord's Supper answer to their Passover.… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

The Holy Communion Is A Partaking In Christ Our Passover Lamb 
THEY knew, Paul tells them, that "what the Gentiles offered, they offered unto demons, and not to God… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

Holy Communion Is Designed For Those Who Know They Are Sinners 
NEITHER ought we to think so unworthily of the Son of God, who came into the world to save sinners, that he would institute this ordinance to be a snare to entangle our souls with.… Read on
William Vickers (d. 1719)

Holy Communion Is Like A Soldier’s Oath Of Fidelity 
THE account of the first institution of this sacrament is thus delivered by the evangelist .… Read on
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Holy Communion Is The Seal Of A Spiritual Marriage 
ALSO in the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, we are called to a familiar converse with God.… Read on
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

Holy Communion Presents To Us The Everlasting Strength Of The Sacrifice Of Christ 
THE main Intention of Christ, was not here to propose a bare Image of his Passion, once suffered in order to a bare Remembrance… Read on
Daniel Brevint (1616-1695)

Holy Communion Strengthens Our Good Resolutions 
NOT that we are to suppose that this sacrament of the Lord's supper doth require perfect obedience in all our addresses to the holy altar, or that none must come but such as are in a sinless state of perfection… Read on
William Vickers (d. 1719)

The Holy Ghost Is Given Among All People 
OUR saviour Christ departing out of the world unto his father, promised his disciples to send down another comforter, that should continue with them for ever, and direct them into all truth.… Read on
The Second Book Of Homilies (1571)

The Holy Sacrament And The Example Of Our Lady 
GIVE we her in God's name the honour due to her. God hath styled her "blessed" by the Angel, by Elizabeth… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

The Holy Sacrament And The Passover 
THE people of Israel ate the flesh of the lamb at their Easter-tide, when they were delivered, and we now partake spiritually of Christ's body, and drink his blood, when with true belief we partake of the holy housel.… Read on
Aelfric Of Eynsham (?955-?1020)

The Holy Sacrament Lights A Fire That Consumes Sin, And Burns In Charity 
THE summe of all is, that seeing it is a fearful thing to appear in the presence of God's Majesty, and knowing that one day we must all appear before his tribunal seat and throne of glory, we do confesse with the Prophet, that albeit we have lived never so upright a life, yet if have been silent, when we should have spoken to his glory if we have omitted never so little a duty, which we ought to have performed, for all that, our case is miserable, until it please God by the burning coale of his Altar and, by the sacrifice of Christ's body, offered up for us upon the crosse, to take away our sinnes… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Holy Sacrament Takes Away Our Sins At A Touch Of The Lips 
THE word of comfort, whereby the inward Grace is preached unto us is, that the Angell said to the Prophet… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Holy Sacrament Takes Away Our Sins Entirely, Certainly, And Immediately 
NOTHING is so availeable to take away sinne, as the touching of bread and wine, with our lips.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Holy Scripture As A Means Of Grace 
ALL who desire the grace of God are to wait for it in searching the Scriptures.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Holy Scripture Is Our Safeguard Against The Corruption Of Apostolic Tradition 
THE Apostles and Evangelists did not sit down, and, acting on a principle contrary to that pursued in the Old Testament, compose a body or system of morals and theology… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

The Holy Spirit Alone Taught Us The Mysteries Of The Gospel 
THE gospel is called "the Spirit," because it contains in it such glorious mysteries which were revealed by the immediate inspirations of the Spirit, not only in the matter itself, but also in the manner and powers to apprehend them.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Holy Spirit Binds Us Into God 
BECAUSE of the grace of the Spirit which has been given us we come to be in him, and he in us… Read on
Athanasius (296-373)

The Holy Spirit Is The Grace Of The Sacraments 
WHEREFORE, too, the Church, beholding so great grace, exhorts her sons and her friends to come together to the sacraments, saying… Read on
Ambrose Of Milan (?339-397)

The Holy Spirit Should Be Worshipped As God 
THIS, then, is my position with regard to these things, and I hope it may be always my position, and that of whosoever is dear to me… Read on
Gregory Nazianzen (329-389)

The Holy Trinity Is A Mystery We Need Not Expect To Understand 
THE Doctrine of the Trinity, even as it is asserted in Scripture, is acknowledged by us to be still a great Mystery, and so imperfectly revealed as to be in a great measure incomprehensible by Human Reason.… Read on
John Tillotson (1630-1694)

The Honour The Church Bestows Upon The Saints 
Such (This) honour have all his saints. Psalm 149:9 SO the text, so the day— a day dedicated to God in honour of "all his saints".… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Honouring The Communion Of Saints 
TO THE SAINTS honour must be paid as friends of Christ, as sons and heirs of God… Read on
John Damascene (7th-8th centuries)

How A Preacher Should Approach Scriptural Texts 
THE parson's method in handling of a text consists of two parts: — First, a plain and evident declaration of the meaning of the text… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

How Apostolic Tradition Confirms Apostolic Scripture 
Tthere are two ways of conveying such revelations to us; one in writing, the other by oral traditions… Read on
Henry Hammond (1605-1660)

How Christ Fulfilled The Law And The Prophets 
THE ritual or ceremonial law, delivered by Moses to the children of Israel, containing all the injunctions and ordinances which related to the old sacrifices and service of the temple, our Lord did indeed come to destroy, to dissolve, and utterly abolish.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

How Christ Is An Oblation For Us 
AS Samuel did not only pray to God for the People, but did himself take a sucking Lamb, and оffer it up to God for the People, the first book of Samuel the seventh chapter… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

How Christ Is Offered Up As A Sacrifice In The Holy Communion 
YOU know that in ordinary parlance we often say, when Easter is approaching, “Tomorrow or the day after is the Lord’s Passion,” although He suffered so many years ago, and His passion was endured once for all time.… Read on
Augustine Of Hippo (354-430)

How Christ Is Present In The Holy Sacrament Of The Altar 
AND let none of those whose wont it is to disbelieve say, "Since therefore the Word of God, being by nature life, dwells in us also, is the body of each one of us too endowed with the power of giving life?"… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

How Christ Is The Mystical Ark Of The Covenant 
CHRIST was notably typified in the Ark of the Testament. In it, were the tables of the law,— to show that the whole law was in Christ fulfilled, and that he was the end of the law for righteousness to those that believe in him.… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How Christ Is The New Temple 
WELL saith Ambrose of His body, Vere Templum in quo nostrorum est purificati peccatorum… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

How Christ Makes Everlasting Intercession For Us 
BY "His mediation or intercession," I do not understand any formal request or supplication that He maketh to the Father for us, but His appearing before Him in our nature and in our behalf.… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

How Christ Transferred The Sacerdotal Functions Of The Jewish Priests To The Apostles 
WHEN our Lord therefore was upon earth, foreseeing that all the Mosaic orders would cease, in course, upon His death, and knowing that His Church could never subsist without some such orders of men set apart for the administration of His Word and Sacraments… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

How Christian Faith Is Necessary To True Christian Charity 
The third and last adjunct connected in the text with charity is, that it be of faith unfeigned.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

How Christianity Confirms Judaism 
IT has been shown in the preceding discourse, which are the most usual ways of making void the law through faith… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

How Christians Are A Royal Priesthood 
“YOU are a chosen race, a royal priesthood.” Peter calls them a chosen race because of their faith, to distinguish them from those who by refusing to accept the living stone have themselves been rejected.… Read on
Bede (672/3-735)

How Christ’s Spiritual Presence In The Eucharist Is The Most Real Presence 
NOW that the spiritual is also a real presence, and that they are hugely consistent, is easily credible to them, that believe that the gifts of the Holy Ghost are real graces, and a spirit is a proper substance… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

How Church Attendance Fosters Social Equality 
WHEN we survey the general state of mankind, we find them continually immersed in worldly affairs… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

How Endings Can Prove To Be Beginnings 
A MAN past the middle of life lay on his death-bed, surrounded by his disciples.… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

How Even The Earliest Churches Suffered From Divisions 
IF WE inquire in what manner the mystery of iniquity, the energy of Satan, began to work again in the Christian church, we shall find it wrought in quite a different way, putting on quite another shape.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

How Every Parish Church Is Like The Stable In Bethlehem 
I DO not wonder interpreters make this house the church of God. It is the gate and court of heaven, now Christ is here… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

How God’s Grace Works Within Man 
WHETHER the docrine of personal election, with all its concomitants, be true or false, I must think it sufficiently proved, that, as far as St.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

How Good Works Show The Character Of Our Faith 
LET us therefore, good Christian people, try and examine our faith what it is.… Read on
The First Book Of Homilies (1547)

How Holy Communion Keeps The Memory of Christ Precious 
LET us then, each for himself, solemnly ask ourselves, whether we have fled for refuge to the appointed hope?… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

How Incarnation Confers A Wonderful Honour On Us All 
THE honour which our flesh hath by being the flesh of the Son God is in many respects great.… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

How Jesus Is The Firstborn Among Many Brothers 
NOW that we have arrived at the understanding of these words, no one could any longer hesitate as to the other passages, for what reason He is the first-born, either “of the dead,” or “of the creation,” or “among many brethren.… Read on
Gregory Of Nyssa (296-373)

How Not To Go Parish Visiting 
OF late years, I say, an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England, but in eighteen-hundred-eleven-twelve that affluent rain had not descended.… Read on
Charlotte Brontë

How Not To Treat The Sick 
ACCORDINGLY, I finished the chapter as slowly as need be, and at the same time as impressively as I could… Read on
Anne Brontë

How Peter’s “Depart From Me” Becomes His “To Whom Else Shall We Go” 
THE command is general; it is given to all alike, "Let down your nets… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

How Prayer Can And Should Sanctify Created Things To Our Use 
THE third particular inquired into, was, how we do, by prayer, sanctify the creature [i.… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How Prayer Really Does Make A Difference 
THERE is nothing in all man's life, well beloved in our Saviour Christ, so needful to be spoken of and daily to be called upon as hearty, zealous, and devout prayer.… Read on
The Second Book Of Homilies (1571)

How Sacred Music Enriches Our Devotion 
TOUCHING musical harmony, whether by instrument or by voice, it being but of high and low in sounds a due proportionable disposition, such, notwithstanding, is the force thereof, and so pleasing effects it hath, in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think, that the soul itself by nature is, or hath in it, harmony… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

How Saints’ Days Put Modern Life Into Perspective For Us 
WE, at the present day, have particular need of the discipline of such commemorations as Saints' days, to recall us to ourselves.… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

How Scripture Teaches Us Through Real Human Lives 
THE wisdom of the supreme Intelligence, so conspicuous in his works, shines equally in the strncture of the writings which he has inspired.… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

How Secularists Are Squandering Our Christian Capital 
For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue.… Read on
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)

How St Paul’s Sufferings Complemented The Sufferings Of Christ 
ALL Christ's works were done for the good of the church. He was given and born for us … Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How St Stephen’s Prayer Was Answered In The Conversion Of St Paul 
TO-DAY we commemorate, not the whole History of St. Paul, nor his Martyrdom, but his wonderful Conversion.… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

How The Altar Is Always To Be Respected As The Place Of Christ’s Presence 
AND if the Altars, and the Arke and the Temple in the Law of Nature and Moses were Holy, because they were Gods Memorialls, as I shewed above, then by the same reason shall the Altar be υπεράγιον, highly Holy, because it is Christ's Memoriall, there we commemorate his Death, and passion in the dreadful, and mysterious way that himselfe with greatest mysteriousness appointed.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

How The Angels And Saints Pray For The Church Militant 
WE must distinguish of interceding or praying for another. There is one private and another public … Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How The Ascension Of Christ Benefits Us 
LET us by way of digression give an explanation of the cause of the Incarnation of the Only-begotten… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

How The Blessed Virgin Mary Comforts Eve 
THE blessed Virgin Mary was the only woman that took off the stain and dishonour of her sex, by being the instrument of bringing that into the world, which should repair and make amends for the loss and damage brought to mankind by the transgression of the first woman Eve.… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

How The Church Building Symbolises Paradise 
THE whole Church is a type of heaven; , the house of God is heaven upon earth… Read on
Anthony Sparrow (1612-1685)

How The Church Is Said To Be Holy 
I BELIEVE, further, that this Catholic Church is holy. Not but that there are many unholy persons in it… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

How The Clergy Should Exercise Charity 
HE first considers his own parish; and takes care, that there be not a beggar or idle person in his parish, but that all be in a competent way of getting their living.… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

How The Communicant Is Transformed Into Christ’s Life 
HE that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him.… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

How The Crucifixion Of Jesus Inspires Repentance 
THINK then, my Christian brethren, have you made him a just return for all the interest he takes in you?… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

How The Eucharist Is A Commemorative Sacrifice And A Sacrifice Of Thanksgiving 
WE do not hold this celebration to be so naked a commemoration of Christ's Body given to death, and of His Blood there shed for us, but that the same Body and Blood is present there in this commemoration … Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

How The Faith Of Abraham Links Circumcision To Baptism 
AND having bound his son, and laid him on the wood, he did in purpose offer him, but by the goodness of God in delivering to him a lamb instead of his child, he received his son alive.… Read on
Cyril Of Jerusalem (?315-386)

How The Holy Communion Fulfils The Passover Sacrifice 
TO put the point beyond dispute, I shall further lay before my reader the express affirmations of the ancients to this purpose… Read on
John Johnson (1662-1725)

How The Holy Innocents May Be Regarded As Martyrs 
THE memory of these infants hath been celebrated in the assemblies of Christians from the primitive times… Read on
Thomas Secker (1693-1768)

How The Holy Spirit Helps Us 
TO each person sincerely embracing the Gospel and continuing in steadfast adherence thereto, God doth afford His Holy Spirit as a principle productive of all inward sanctity and virtuous dispositions in his heart, enabling also and quickening him to discharge the conditions of faith and obedience required from him and undertaken by him, that which is by some termed making a person just, infusion into his soul of righteousness of grace, of virtuous habits… Read on
Isaac Barrow (1630-1677)

How The Holy Spirit Is Our Comforter (I) 
THE Spirit is a comforter by applying and representing Christ absent unto the soul again.… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How The Holy Spirit Is Our Comforter (II) 
THE Spirit is a comforter by a work of sweet and fruitful illumination, not only giving the knowledge, but the love and comfort of the truth unto a Christian… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How The Holy Spirit Lets Us Share In The Divine 
WE are sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, by our receiving his real stamp upon our souls… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

How The Lamb Of God Is Present Upon The Altar In Holy Communion 
"WHAT say you then to the council of Nice [Nicaea]? The words of the council be these… Read on
Nicholas Ridley (1500-1555)

How The Parson Conducts Himself In Divine Service 
THE Country Parson, when he is to read divine services, composeth himself to all possible reverence… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

How The Parson Garners The Attention Of His Congregation 
WHEN he preacheth, he procures attention by all possible art: both by earnestness of speech… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

How The Parson Should Offer Comfort 
THE Country Parson, when any of his cure is sick, or afflicted with loss of friend or estate, or any ways distressed, fails not to afford his best comforts… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

How The Peace Of God Helps Us In Tribulation 
AND the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.… Read on
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

How The Simile Of The Potter’s Vessel Illustrates God’s Election Of His People 
ALL tends to the same purpose of vindicating the exercise of God's absolute sovereignty in selecting a nation to the favour of such peculiar advantages as had hitherto been confined to the Jews.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

How The Spirit Is Said To Proceed From The Father And The Son 
THE first words of the Creed, "I believe," which have hitherto served to all the articles concerning God the Father and God the Son, are here repeated concerning God the Holy Ghost… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

How The Spirit Prays With Sighs In The Inner Self 
AND another night — God knows, I do not, whether within me or beside me — .… Read on
Patrick Of Ireland (?390-?460)

How The Study Of Scripture Makes Us Spiritual In Our Understanding 
NOW the need of our constantly studying Scripture, is that our minds may be brought into conformity with the mind of God.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

How The Threefold Ministry Of Bishops, Priests And Deacons Came To Be 
FOR when our blessed Saviour had gathered many disciples who believed Him at His first preaching, Vocavit discipulos suos et elegit duodecim ex ipsis quos et apostolos nominavit, saith St.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

How The Troubled Soul Flies To The Holy Communion For Comfort 
FOR the more clearly it is understand, the more sweetness, fruit, comfort, and edification it bringeth to the godly receivers thereof.… Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

How The Way Of God Is Prepared In The Heart 
AS the voice precedes the word, so did John precede Jesus on earth… Read on
Aelfric Of Eynsham (?955-?1020)

How To Be Committed To Our Own Church While Respecting Others 
BUT even among men of an upright heart, men who desire to "have a conscience void of offence," it must needs be, that, as long as there are various opinions, there will be various ways of worshipping God… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

How To Care For A Church 
THE Country Parson hath a special care of his church, that all things there be decent, and befitting His name by which it is called.… Read on
George Herbert (1593-1633)

How To Combine The Scriptures With Other Helpful Authorities 
It is one and the same God Whom both the Old and the New Testament proclaim, Who is praised and glorified in the Trinity… Read on
John Damascene (7th-8th centuries)

How To Conduct A Self-Examination Properly 
THE directions how to examine thyself are such as these:— Empty thy mind of all other cares and thoughts, that they may not distract or divide thy mind.… Read on
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

How To Decide Whether To Attend Services Led By Clergy Preaching False Doctrine 
UNTO them, unto false prophets, undeniably such, is frequently committed … Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

How To Go Visiting The Sick 
IT is generally supposed, that the means of grace and the ordinances of God are equivalent terms.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

How To Recognise The Faith That Justifies 
OBSERVE, it is the consent of your hearts, or wills, which I especially lay down to be inquired after.… Read on
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

How To Respond When People Scoff At Our Faith And Morality 
OFTEN, and often, have such virtues as sobriety, temperance, modesty, and chastity, been made the subject of ridicule, as monkish habits which exclude men from the company of the fashionable and the gay ...… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

How To Understand Certain Rhetorical Passages Of Scripture 
THE same manner of speech used also St. Peter in his first Epistle … Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

How Traditional Worship Fosters Self-Discipline 
FANNY'S imagination had prepared her for something grander than a mere spacious, oblong room, fitted up for the purpose of devotion — with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany, and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of the family gallery above.… Read on
Jane Austen (1775-1817)

How We Are To Understand The Holy Sacrament 
NOW certain men have often inquired, and yet frequently inquire, how the bread, which is prepared from corn, and baked by the heat of fire, can be changed to Christ's body… Read on
Aelfric Of Eynsham (?955-?1020)

How We Can Be Sure What The Catholic Faith Is 
I HAVE often then inquired earnestly and attentively of very many men eminent for sanctity and learning, how and by what sure and so to speak universal rule I may be able to distinguish the truth of Catholic faith from the falsehood of heretical pravity… Read on
Vincent Of Lérins (d. ?445)

How We Can Know Whether We Have The Holy Spirit Dwelling In Us 
NOW, forasmuch as Christians are but too apt to fall into a carnal security, they are to be often called upon to try whether they have the Spirit of God dwelling in them, or whether they have not lost, or are in danger of losing so necessary a guide?… Read on
Thomas Wilson (1663-1755)

How We Can Secure The Fellowship Of The Holy Ghost 
NIt now remains, that we consider how we may continue so; that is, how we may secure "the fellowship of the Holy Ghost," which we received in baptism, unto our lives' end.… Read on
Thomas Wilson (1663-1755)

How We May Understand God’s Arbitrary Election Of His People 
FIRST, it is a notorious fact, though often overlooked in argument, that the very passage, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion," which is almost the only support claimed from St.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

How We Must Accept Jesus As Our Prophet, Priest And King 
SINCE then, dearly beloved, Jesus, the Messiah is thus come into the world, and ye can look for no other.… Read on
Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846)

How We Shall Know That We Are Written In The Book Of Life 
BUT you will say, How shall I know that I am in the book of life? How shall I try myself to be elect of God to everlasting life?… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

How We Should Respond To Christ Our Great High Priest (I) 
FIRST, Then, we should not receive so great a grace in vain, but, by faith, lay hold upon it, and make use of it.… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How We Should Respond To Christ Our Great High Priest (II) 
SECONDLY, We should labour to feel the virtue of the priesthood and sacrifice of Christ working in us, pursing our consciences from dead works, renewing pur nature, cleansing us from the power and pollution of sin… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How We Should Respond To Christ Our Great High Priest (III) 
THIRDLY, We should learn to walk before him with all reverence and fear, as men that have received a kingdom which cannot be moved .… Read on
Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)

How We Should Show Respect To The Resting Places Of The Dead 
The other extreme is, of them, who do so over-honour the dead, that they abridge some parts of them of a due sepelition.… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

How We Should Understand The Simile Of The Potter’s Vessel 
THAT a doctrine [i.e. the Calvinistic], therefore, so opposite to the one here laid down, should have been deduced from the Scriptures by many ingenious and diligent students of them, one can hardly avoid attributing, in some degree, to their entering on the study with a strong antecedent bias in favor of the conclusion they draw, — in consequence of their regarding it as a truth abstractedly demonstrable by reason.… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

The Human Mind Cannot Do Without Images Of God Drawn From Our World 
THEREFORE this darkness of the body has been placed between us and God, like the cloud of old between the Egyptians and the Hebrews… Read on
Gregory Nazianzen (329-389)

The Humble Birth Of Jesus Allowed Him To Preach Freedom 
WHY did not Christ, say they, appear in the power and majesty of his Father?… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)


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If We Deny The Incarnation, We Deny The Life-Giving Virtue Of The Eucharist  
THEY [the Docetae, who denied that our Lord had a true Body] abstain from Eucharist and prayer, because they confess not that the Eucharist is the Flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, Which suffered for our sins, Which the Father in His mercy raised again.… Read on
Ignatius Of Antioch (?35-?107)

If You Want God To Hear You, Pray In The Company Of Decent Men 
GOD will not respect the offering of those men who assemble by a peevish spirit… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Images Can Be Made For Decoration But Not Worshipped 
FURTHERMORE we notify to you that it has come to our ears that your Fraternity, seeing certain adorers of images, broke and threw down these same images in Churches.… Read on
Gregory I (?540-604)

The Importance Of Baptism And The Holy Spirit For A Christian Life 
WELL, though all these truths were delivered by the Son of God himself, though they were confirmed by infinite miracles, yet if God had not sent his Holy Spirit into our hearts, we might indeed have heard these doctrines, but receive them we never could, much less have practised them.… Read on
Thomas Wilson (1663-1755)

The Importance Of Constant Communion 
I AM to show that it is the duty of every Christian to receive the Lord's Supper as often as he can.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Importance Of Daily Bible Study 
EVERY faithful man and women, when they have risen from sleep in the morning, before they touch any work at all, should wash their hands and pray to God, and so go to their work.… Read on
Hippolytus (?170-?236)

The Importance Of Evening Prayer 
IT was not certainly for nothing, that it is so particularly noted, that these Prayers were made by such eminent Saints at the Time of the Evening Sacrifice, or, which is the same, at the Ninth Hour, the Hour of publick Prayer.… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

The Importance Of Maintaining The Distinctness Of What Is Sung 
A :THIRD exhortation to you is, that in singing ye would be careful to keep up distinction, as well as devotion… Read on
Thomas Bisse (1675-1731)

The Importance Of Putting Things In Proportion 
CHRIST was not a master who dealt in exceptions. It was not his habit to take the strength out of his utterances by appending to each of them a list of the cases to which it did not apply.… Read on
William Reed Huntington (1838-1909)

The Importance Of Reading The Old And New Testaments As A Single Witness 
WHILE some [ancient heretics] were desirous of engrafting upon the Gospel Jewish laws and ordinances, altogether done away by the Christian Dispensation… Read on
William Van Mildert (1765-1836)

The Importance Of Regular Private Prayer 
SINCE the body of the people, especially in country places, cannot be brought to attend it oftener than one day in a week… Read on
Joseph Butler (1692-1752)

The Importance Of St Stephen As The First Martyr 
ST. STEPHEN, who was one of the seven Deacons, is called the Protomartyr, as having first suffered death in the cause of the Gospel.… Read on
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

The Importance Of True Religion To A Free Country 
FOR real freedom we are indebted to Christianity, which alone could make religion to be not an idle theory, but an abiding conviction.… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

The Importance Of Using Readings From The Old Testament 
The Church of Christ hath had in no one thing so many and so contrary occasions of dealing as about Judaism… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

In All The Dangers Of This World, We Have One Friend Who Will Never Forsake Us 
CAN this world, of which we all complain, though we all of us love it too well, can it furnish any pleasures, any hopes, which can equal those which God has revealed and promised — those unutterable glories, which were seen by St.… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

In Holy Communion We Touch Christ As Surely As The Woman Who Touched The Hem Of His Garment 
IN this Manner faithful Communicants eat as effectually of the Body of Jesus Christ, by receiving its Strength and Virtue, as the Saints eat of the Tree of Life, .… Read on
Daniel Brevint (1616-1695)

In Preaching, Everything Must Be Referred Back To The Cross 
HOW shall the architect raise the palace, unless an immovable foundation shall first have been established?… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

In The Eucharist We Perform The Remembrance Of Christ’s Sacrifice 
WHAT then? do not we offer every day? We offer indeed, but making a remembrance of His death, and this remembrance is one and not many.… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

In The Eucharist, We Recieve The Selfsame Body Of Christ That Was Born Of The Virgin 
IN MY book I have written in mo than an hundred places, that we receive the selfsame body of Christ that was born of the Virgin Mary, that was crucified and buried, that rose again, ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.… Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

In What Sense Christians Should Think Of Themselves As ‘The Elect’ 
LET Christians, then, be taught to rejoice, indeed, in their high privileges, as the "called" and "elect" and "peculiar people of God… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

In What Ways Our Righteousness Should Exceed That Of The Pharisees 
SEE, first, that thy righteousness fall not short of the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

In What Ways We May Think Mary Blessed 
But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

The Incarnation Is A Remedy For The Fall 
AND having been first chastened by many means (because his sins were many, whose root of evil sprang up through various causes and at sundry times), by word, by law, by prophets, by benefits, by threats, by plagues, by waters, by fires, by wars, by victories, by defeats, by signs in heaven and signs in the air and in the earth and in the sea, by unexpected changes of men, of cities, of nations … Read on
Gregory Nazianzen (329-389)

The Incarnation Underlies The Principle That God Works Through His Creatures 
IT has pleased the Creator thus to limit by certain laws His own operations, and to make the infinite outgoings of His will dependent on the presence and actings of His own creatures.… Read on
Thomas Thelluson Carter (1808-1901)

The Indwelling Of The Risen And Ascended Christ 
AND so, dearly-beloved, if we unhesitatingly believe with the heart what we profess with the mouth, we are crucified in Christ.… Read on
Leo The Great (d. 461)

Infant Baptism Is Demanded By Christianity’s Relationship To Judaism 
THE Book of the Acts of the Apostles is all the inspired record we have of the Church's missionary work.… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

The Institution Of The Baptism Of Infants 
IT is to be further observed, that when our Saviour ordained baptism to be the means of admitting persons into his church, or the congregation of his disciples, lest we should think, as some have done, that he meant it only of those who are of riper years, he used the most general terms that could be invented, requiring that all nations should he baptized… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

Intellectual Speculations Can Distract Us From Real Christianity 
THERE is, however, one peculiar advantage to be derived, from the examination of these subjects… Read on
Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872)

Intentional Destruction Of A Child Must Be Treated As Murder 
THE woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder.… Read on
Basil Of Caesarea (?329-379)

The Invocation Of Saints, Veneration of Images, And Prayer For The Dead 
WE do not charge them [Rome] only with "invoking Saints for their intercession," or … Read on
John Bramhall (1594-1663)

It Is Impious For Human Authorities To Trespass On God’s Order 
GOD, as Creator of the World, is Author of the constitution of Nature … Read on
William Warburton (1698-1779)

It Is No Innovation To Bow Towards The Altar On Entering A Church 
IF to worship God when we enter into His house, or approach His Altar, be an innovation, it is a very old one.… Read on
William Laud (1573-1645)

It Is Not Charitable To Let Our Brethren Be Destroyed By Unhealthy Lifestyles 
OUR love — to be perfect — must extend to our thoughts. Charity is not puffed up with a high opinion of itself… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

It Is Not Charity To Do Good Under Compulsion Or From Selfish Motives 
OUR charity, then, must be shewn, in our actions; as well as felt, in our hearts.… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

It Is Not Mere Diligence That Is Required Of Us, But Christian Diligence 
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.… Read on
John Venn (1759-1813)

It Is Our Responsibility To Choose God’s Help Freely 
MAN'S condition now is a mixed condition of hope and fear, of trial and discipline, of preparation and of conflict.… Read on
William Van Mildert (1765-1836)

It Is Presumptuous To Attempt To Interpret Scripture Unaided 
The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

It Is Right To Set Apart Special Days In The Christian Calendar 
GOD made all days, all in general, but this in particular. Particular days are of God's making as well as others.… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

It Is Wise To Be Religious, Because Religion Looks To Our Best Interests 
IT is to be wise as to our main interest.— Our chief end and highest interest is happiness… Read on
John Tillotson (1630-1694)


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Jesus Did Not Redeem Us So That We Could Be Slaves To A Political Elite 
THERE are people who have split and anatomized the doctrine of free government, as if it were an abstract question concerning metaphysical liberty and necessity, and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling.… Read on
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Jesus Is Our Prophet, Priest And King For Ever 
THE transgression of our first parents having brought sin and death into the world, and their dominion being extended throughout all ages over all flesh, by depravation of nature, and by evil example, and the custom arid habits of sin, Jesus Christ, in tender mercy, came down into the world to save sinners… Read on
Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846)

Jesus Is Our Saviour Sealed Under God’s Great Seal 
AND what is meant by this term Christ? a Saviour anointed; or, as in another place it is said more agreeable to our phrase of speaking, a Saviour "sealed" — a Saviour under God's Great Seal.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Jesus Lets Our Ties Of Family And Friendship Be Everlasting 
"Now there was leaning on Jesus's bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved".… Read on
Beilby Porteus (1731-1809)

Jesus Provides The Supreme Example Of The Patriot 
BUT why need we search for examples of patriotic feelings in a fellow creature, when the Author of our salvation himself set us the brightest pattern, which was ever graced with the name of patriotism.… Read on
Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872)

Jesus Showed Who He Was Not By Words But By Deeds 
NOW when John's disciples came to Christ, they did their message, saying, Es tu ille, qui venturus est, an alium expectamus?… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

Jesus Takes Away The Element Of Coercion In Religion 
IN chapter 6, St. Paul takes up the special work of faith, the struggle which the spirit wages against the flesh to kill off those sins and desires that remain after a person has been made just.… Read on
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Jesus Was Conceived Without Inheriting Original Sin 
IT was necessary we should believe our Saviour conceived and born of such a woman as was a most pure and immaculate virgin.… Read on
John Pearson (1612-1686)

Jesus’s Respect For The Temple Teaches Respect For All Our Places Of Worship 
WHEN we behold the reverence which Christ both himself paid, and required to be paid by others, to that Temple of the Jews, which was so soon to be destroyed, can we help perceiving the inference, which naturally follows, as to the duty of paying all due respect to the houses of prayer in our own land, dedicated as they are to the service of a faith which is never to pass away unto the end of the world?… Read on
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

Jewish People Threw Off Their Election Voluntarily, As Gentiles Embraced It Voluntarily 
“IT WAS necessary,” he says, “that the word should have been spoken first to you, but since ye put it from you,”—… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

John Calvin On The Real Presence Of Christ In The Holy Sacrament 
NOW because great is the fame of Calvin, (who subscribed the Augustan Confession, and that of the Switzers,) let us hear what he writ and believed concerning this sacred mystery.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

Joy And Gladness On Christmas Day 
OUR SAVIOUR, dearly-beloved, was born today: let us be glad. For there is no proper place for sadness, when we keep the birthday of the Life, which destroys the fear of mortality and brings to us the joy of promised eternity.… Read on
Leo The Great (d. 461)

The Joy Of The Angels At The Ascension Of Our Lord Jesus Christ 
"If any man serve Me, let him follow Me: and where I am, there shall also My servant be."… Read on
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882)

The Justice Of God Is More Understanding Than Ours 
FROM what has been already said it is evident, that the Scriptures contain a plain and intelligible system of religion… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

Justification And Sanctification Explained 
JUSTIFICATION is another word for pardon. It is the forgiveness of all our sins… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Justification, Merit, And The Absolute Need For Grace 
CONCERNING justification, we believe that all good Christians have true inherent justice, though not perfect, according to a perfection of degrees, as gold is true gold, though it be mixed with some dross.… Read on
John Bramhall (1594-1663)


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Keeping Monday And Tuesday In Easter Week 
IN honour of the great festivals of the Nativity, Resurrection, and of Pentecost, other holidays are added to them as attendants.… Read on
John Shepherd (1759-1805)

The Kind Of Holiness We Attribute To The Consecrated Bread And Wine In The Eucharist 
THE third and most material article of inquiry is, what the consecration of the elements really amounts to, or what the effect of it is?… Read on
Daniel Waterland (1703-1791)

King Oswald’s Wonderful Piety 
KING Oswald, with the nation of the English which he governed being instructed by the teaching of this most reverend prelate, not only learned to hope for a heavenly kingdom unknown to his progenitors, but also obtained of the same one Almighty God, who made heaven and earth, larger earthly kingdoms than any of his ancestors.… Read on
Bede (672/3-735)

The Kingdom Of God Can Be Spread Only By Freedom 
"Impossible," will some men say, "yea, the greatest of all impossibilities, that we should see a Christian world… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Knowing Our Need For Divine Grace Should Spur Us On To Greater Efforts 
Without me, ye can do nothing (John 15:5) "AS the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me."… Read on
John Venn (1759-1813)


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The Lawful Use Of Images By Christian Men 
THE making and using of the image of Christ, as born, living, preaching, walking, dying … Read on
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

Laws Are Made For Man, Not Man For Laws 
CIVIL freedom, Gentlemen, is not, as many have endeavored to persuade you, a thing that lies hid in the depth of abstruse science.… Read on
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

A Lesson For The Sick In The Story Of Balaam 
THE sick are to be admonished to consider how great health of the heart is in bodily affliction, which recalls the mind to knowledge of itself, and renews the memory of infirmity which health for the most part casts away, so that the spirit, which is carried out of itself into elation, may be reminded by the smitten flesh from which it suffers to what condition it is subject.… Read on
Gregory I (?540-604)

A Lesson For Worthy Participation In Holy Communion From Jesus’s Words To Mary Magdalene 
BEFORE the saving Cross and the resurrection from the dead, while as yet His providential scheme had not received its appropriate fulfilment, He mingled both with the just and the unjust, and ate with publicans and sinners.… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

The Lesson Of The Destruction Of Sodom 
SUCH is the situation of every one, who hears the sound of the gospel.… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

Lessons From The Death Of St Oswald 
AND this brings me to speak of the fourth and last lesson which I desire to draw from Oswald's career.… Read on
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889)

The Lessons Learnt By The English Church 
THE English Church has learnt valuable lessons from the various outward circumstances through which it has passed.… Read on
Vernon Staley (1852-1933)

The Lessons Learnt From A Sense Of Divine Providence 
THIS indeed is the grand cause, why Providence now doth appear so cloudy, that men consider not how our affairs have no complete determination, or final issue here… Read on
Isaac Barrow (1630-1677)

Lessons Our Political Leaders Can Learn From Holy Innocents’ Day 
AND surely one of them is, to observe, how pitiable they are, who live under the arbitrary government of despotic princes, that may do, as often as their passions prompt them, the cruellest actions without controul… Read on
Thomas Secker (1693-1768)

Lessons To Learn From The Text, “The Spirit Bloweth Where It Listeth” 
IF "the Spirit bloweth where it listeth," we are not certainly to exclude any place or nation from these blessed gales, or with the Donatists to confine him to any corner of the world, or to the Church or congregation we are of, as if he could blow no where else.… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Let Choristers Be As Harmonious In Their Fellowship As In Their Music 
FINALLY to close this discourse, much too prolix for this place, yet being upon a subject hitherto wanting an explanation, though none more deserving it, I hope the more excusable, I shall dismiss you with this exhortation, or rather adjuration… Read on
Thomas Bisse (1675-1731)

Let Down Your Net Again, It Will Come Again Full Fraught Of Grace And Glory 
Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Let Mary Be Honoured And Esteemed 
IN respect of her [i.e. of the Blessed Virgin] it was therefore necessary that we might perpetually preserve an esteem of her person, proportionable to so high a dignity.… Read on
John Pearson (1612-1686)

Let Us Delight In God’s Commandments, And Be Comforted By His Spirit 
AND I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever… Read on
Bede (672/3-735)

Let Us Imitate The Merciful Nature Of God 
LET us imitate the merciful nature of God. This branch of God's goodness is very proper for our imitation.… Read on
John Tillotson (1630-1694)

Let Us Not Fear Death, But Make Our Farewells 
LET us not then fear death, which can do us no harm, otherwise than for a moment to make the flesh to smart… Read on
Nicholas Ridley (1500-1555)

Let Us Pray For One Another In This Life And The Next 
WE earnestly exhort as much as we can, dearest brother, for the sake of the mutual love by which we are joined one to another, that since we are instructed by the providence of the Lord, who warns us, and are admonished by the wholesome counsels of divine mercy, that the day of our contest and struggle is already approaching, we should not cease to be instant with all the people in fastings, in watchings, in prayers.… Read on
Cyprian Of Carthage (d. 258)

Let Us Preserve Our Traditional Constitutions In Both Church And State 
A THIRD lesson, which this day affords us, is, not to be fond of innovations, either in civil matters, or ecclesiastical.… Read on
Thomas Secker (1693-1768)

Let Us Seek Jesus Where He Might Be Found 
“WHY seek you the living among the dead? he is not here;” that is the correction of our judgments and affections.… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Let Us Test Teachers And Their Novel Doctrines By Their Moral Consequences 
WHOEVER mixes much in society will frequently hear eulogies bestowed upon conduct that will ill bear the scrutiny of Christian examination.… Read on
William Van Mildert (1765-1836)

Liberty Is Not The Same As Licentiousness 
BUT liberty is in many other dangers from itself, besides those which arise from formed designs of destroying it, under hypocritical pretences, or romantic schemes of restoring it upon a more perfect plan.… Read on
Joseph Butler (1692-1752)

Life Flows From The Service Of The House Of God 
WHY art thou disquieted to depart and go about thine affairs? Why runnest thou after the world which may not be kept fast?… Read on
Jacob of Serugh (?451-521)

A Life Of Charity From The Heart Fits Us To Accept God’s Forgiveness 
THE meaning is not that we may get to heaven by any one good quality that we please… Read on
Thomas Secker (1693-1768)

The Life-Giving Blessing Present In The Bread And Wine 
THE author also justly condemns the "unintelligible notion of a certain grace or virtue annexed to the material elements, or to the mere external participation of them, rather after the nature of a charm, than of a religious action."… Read on
Daniel Waterland (1703-1791)

Lifting Up Our Hearts Above Earthly Things 
THEREFORE, saith Chrysostome, in the same Homily, a little before the place rehearsed, "What dost thou, O man?… Read on
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

The Limits Of Reason In Religion 
SUFFER me now to add a few plain words, first to you who undervalue reason.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Limits To What We Can Bargain Away For The Sake Of Christian Unity 
"Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" Ephesians 4… Read on
William Van Mildert (1765-1836)

Limits Upon The Use Of Relics And Images 
FOR Relics of Saints, If I had any such I were assured were members of their bodies, I would honourably bury them and not give them the reward of condemned men’s members, which are only ordained to be deprived of burial.… Read on
James I Of England (1566-1625)

The Link Between Alcohol Abuse And Abortion 
WHEREFORE I beseech you flee fornication, and the mother of it, drunkenness.… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

Listening To The Voice Of God 
OH yes, you say, it is plain enough that God spoke to men in Bible times.… Read on
William Reed Huntington (1838-1909)

A Little Study And Reading Helps To Foster A Tranquil Mind 
IN the third place, [let me advise you] to attend to the culture and improvement of your minds.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

A Lively Faith 
ANOTHER faith there is in scripture which is not as the foresaid faith, idle, unfruitful, and dead, but "worketh by charity", as St.… Read on
The First Book Of Homilies (1547)

The Living Tapestry Of Neighbours And Families 
If children have a problem, [people say] it is "society" that is at fault.… Read on
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)

Long For The Things Of Heaven, But First Make A Heaven On Earth 
“Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done”. BEHOLD a most excellent train of thought!… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

The Lord’s Prayer Is A Prayer In Common To A God Who Is Present With Us 
“AFTER this manner, therefore, pray ye,” says He: “Our Father, which art in heaven.… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

The Lord’s Supper And The Beginnings Of Christian Priesthood 
WHEN the Lord Jesus had concluded these exhortations, warnings, and reproofs, he took the bread that was before him, and, acting as the master of the feast, he brake it, according to custom, and gave it to his disciples… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

Lots Of People Living In One Place Does Not Make A Community 
"AS for community," said a voice which proceeded neither from Egremont nor the stranger, "with the monasteries expired the only type that we ever had in England of such an intercourse.… Read on
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Love Is Not Provoked 
SECONDLY, Love is not provoked. Our present English translation renders it, is not easily provoked.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Love, Fear And The Servants And Friends Of Christ 
"Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants… Read on
John Cassian (?360-435)

Loving Husbands And Wives Shall Know Each Other In Heaven 
THEY shall not marry, because they shall have none of the uses of marriage… Read on
John Donne (1572-1631)


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Man Alone Can See The True Meaning Of Earthly Existence 
OF the innumerable eyes that open upon nature, none but those of man see its author and its end.… Read on
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)

Man Has Freedom Of Will, But Only By Grace 
"WHAT then, may all men be saved if they will?" Before I answer this question directly, I shall show, that those who ask it, are themselves compelled to grant as much freedom of will as we desire to plead for.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Man Of True Christian Candour 
IT is necessary to observe, that true candour is altogether different from that guarded, inoffensive language, and that studied openness of behaviour, which we so frequently meet with among men of the world.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

Mankind In General Has Gained By The Fall Of Adam 
MANKIND in general have gained by the fall of Adam, a capacity of attaining more holiness and happiness on earth, than it would have been possible for them to attain if Adam had not fallen.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Manner In Which Christ Is Present In the Holy Sacrament 
I WILL, in few words, declare what true presence of Christ's body in the sacrament of the Lord's supper I hold and affirm, with the word of God and the ancient fathers.… Read on
Nicholas Ridley (1500-1555)

The Many Ways Christians Can Relax And Have Fun 
THERE can be no dispute concerning the true end of recreations. They are intended to refresh our exhausted bodily or mental powers, and to restore us, with renewed vigor, to the more serious occupations of life.… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

Margaret Thatcher on the Moral Basis for a Free Society 
One should think twice before condemning any set of political ideas as unChristian, but there are some political philosophies which can and must be so denounced.… Read on
Margaret Thatcher (1925-)

The Marks Of A True Christian Believer 
IN the midst of this their Christian strictness, you behold no ostentation, no superstition, no sourness, no gloom.… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

Marriage Is A Form Of Friendship Like No Other 
THE vow of marriage which the wisdom of most civilized nations has enjoined, and which the rules of the Christian church enjoin, may be properly considered as a vow of perpetual and indissoluble friendship… Read on
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Marriage Is A Mystery Of The Union Of Christ And His Church 
SINGLE life makes men in one instance to be like angels, but marriage in very many things makes the chaste pair to be like to Christ.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Marriage Of Christ And The Soul Must Be For Richer And For Poorer 
NOTHING more separates a man from Christ, than to say, "I will not have this man to reign over me."… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

Married Persons Should Avoid ‛Mine’ And ‛Thine’ 
LET the husband and wife infinitely avoid a curious distinction of mine and thine… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Married Persons Should Deal With Small Irritations Before They Grow 
LET man and wife be careful to stifle little things, that, as fast as they spring, they be cut down and trod upon… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Martyrdom Of St Alban 
AT that time suffered St. Alban, of whom the priest Fortunatus, in the Praise of Virgins, where he makes mention of the blessed martyrs that came to the Lord from all parts of the world, says In Britain's isle was holy Alban born.… Read on
Bede (672/3-735)

Mary Is Rightly Called The Mother Of God In Scripture And Tradition 
THE blessed Virgin was consecrated to be a temple of the divinity in a singular manner.… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

Match The Outward Dignity Of Our Worship To Its Inner Holiness 
AFTER the main care of the substance of divine worship, which must be ever holy, spiritual, answerable to the unfailing and exact rule of the eternal word of God… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

The Meaning Of Lent 
FOR what is Lent, in its original institution, but a spiritual conflict, to subdue the flesh to the spirit, to beat down our bodies, and to bring them into subjection?… Read on
Thomas Ken (1637-1711)

The Meaning Of Scripture Is Not Equally Plain To Everyone 
"The Bible," it has been well and wisely observed, "though a most sacred is a most multifarious collection of the records of divine economy, a collection of an infinite variety of cosmogony, theology, history, prophecy, psalmody, morality, apologue, allegory, legislation, ethics, carried through different books by different authors at different ages, and, though shaped to the same holy end by the superintending and suggesting Spirit of God, with different purposes in view by the authors themselves.… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

The Meaning Of The Descent Of Christ Into Hell 
THE soul [of Christ] when it was deified descended into Hades, in order that, just as the Sun of Righteousness rose for those upon the earth, so likewise He might bring light to those who sit under the earth in darkness and shadow of death … Read on
John Damascene (7th-8th centuries)

The Meaning Of The Parable Of The Rich Man And Lazarus 
CAN IT be meant, that he who is poor and afflicted in this life, does thereby, in his turn, become the favourite of God in the next, and that the rich man, who rejoices here in the youth, strength, and abundance, which God has given him, must, on that account, be recompensed hereafter by pain and misery?… Read on
Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846)

The Means By Which We May Make Our Election Sure 
Wherefore the rather, Brethren, give Diligence, to make your Calling and Election sure.… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

The Means By Which We May Receive The Graces Necessary To The Christian Life 
OUR blessed Saviour in his last Discourse to his Disciples tells them, "That his heavenly Father woud give the holy Spirit to every one that asked him."… Read on
William Webster (1689-1758)

Measure Progress In Christianity By Love, Not By Obedience To Rules 
ABOVE all, measure your progress by your improvement in love to God and man.… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

Memorial Images And Stained Glass Windows Not To Be Broken Down 
THE queen's majesty understanding, that by the means of sundry people, partly ignorant, partly malicious or covetous, there hath been of late years spoiled and broken certain ancient monuments, some of metal, some of stone, which were erected up as well in churches, as in other public places within this realm, only to shew a memory to the posterity of the persons there buried, or that had been benefactors to the building or dotations of the same churches or public places, and not to nourish any kind of superstition… Read on
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

The Memorial Of Christ’s Death In The Holy Sacrament Of The Altar 
WITH good reason, then, are we accustomed to have sacred meetings in churches on the eighth day.… Read on
Cyril Of Alexandria (?376-444)

The Mercy Of God Shown In The Brightest Colours 
Then were there two thieves crucified with him; one on the right hand, and another on the left .… Read on
Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761)

The Message Of Christ’s Sorrow In The Garden Of Gethsemane 
WHEN he entred the garden, he left his Disciples at the entrance of it, calling with him onely Peter, James and John, he withdrew himself from the rest about a stones cast, and began to be exceeding heavy.… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The Miracle Given To The The Canaanite Woman Teaches Us To Feel Our Desire For Mercy 
BY his first silence to the Canaanitish woman; by his declaration, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel… Read on
Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846)

The Misuse Of Holy Orders Is Akin To The Misuse Of Parenthood 
THERE is no human power conceivable so spiritual as the power to bring into being an immortal soul or spirit.… Read on
Charles Gore (1853-1932)

Moderation May Be Understood To Mean Civility 
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. … Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Moderation May Be Understood To Mean Equity 
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. … Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Moderation May Be Understood To Mean Modesty And Gentleness 
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. … Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

Moderation Teaches Us How To Prepare For Our Lord’s Advent 
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Mark Frank has been describing four senses of "moderation"… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

A Modest View Of The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary 
THE same modesty I have shew'd in treating of her Death, I shall reserve in discoursing of her Assumption… Read on
Anthony Stafford (1587-1645)

The Most Basic Preparation For Communion 
IN order to understand the nature of the Lord's supper, it would be useful carefully to read over those passages in the gospel, and in the first epistle to the Corinthians, which speak of the institution of it.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

Music Can Be As Evangelical As Preaching 
THE best, the most powerful instruments are they found in the house of God, to awaken and stir up piety, to comfort and edify the people of God.… Read on
Thomas Bisse (1675-1731)

The Mutual Dependence Of Clergy And Laity 
OF this Church we are members; some of us set apart for the ministry, but many more to be ministered unto… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

The Mystery Of Redemption Lies In Free Pardon For Sinners 
THE second branch of the Christian religion is, to hold forth the method of man's reconciliation with his Maker.… Read on
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715)

The Mystic Chrism And Holy Sacrifices Of Christ’s Table 
AS we have received a memorial of this offering which we celebrate on a table by means of symbols of His Body and saving Blood according to the laws of the new covenant, we are taught again by the prophet David to say… Read on
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The Names Given To Mary The Blessed Virgin 
YET I shall not give her other titles than the Scripture gives her… Read on
Mark Frank (1613-1664)

The Nature And Limits Of Our Friendship with the World 
WHAT kind of friendship may we have with the world? We may, we ought, to love them as ourselves… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Nature And Purpose Of Fasting in Lent Illustrated By Daniel 
AND that you may be convinced how pertinent the example of Daniel the ascetic, is, to teach us to spend this holy season devoutly, to enforce all his prayers and supplications, he added fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes … Read on
Thomas Ken (1637-1711)

The Nature Of Authentic Ecumenical Relations 
[A man of a truly catholic spirit] is fixed in his congregation as well as his principles.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Nature Of Marriage 
ALL ye that are married, or that intend to take the holy estate of Matrimony upon you, hear what the holy Scripture doth say as touching the duty of husbands towards their wives, and wives towards their husbands.… Read on
Book Of Common Prayer (1662)

The Nature Of Right Penenace 
THE right penance consisteth in three points: the first is contrition; that is, I must acknowledge myself that I have transgressed God's most holy laws and commandments.… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

The Nature Of Sin, And The Two Laws Of God 
BUT I pray you, what is sin? I think there be many which can commit sin, and do wickedly… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

The Nature Of That Preaching It Is Woe To Leave Unspoken 
WHEN he [St Paul] saith, "Woe unto me if I preach not the Gospel", what doth he mean?… Read on
William Laud (1573-1645)

The Nature Of The True Church 
THE true church is an universal congregation or fellowship of God's faithful and elect people, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the head corner-stone.… Read on
The Second Book Of Homilies (1571)

The Nature Of True Christian Charity 
THE end of the commandment is charity. Charity is the same with benevolence or love… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

The Nature Of True Christian Zeal 
EVERY Christian ought, undoubtedly, to be zealous for the church, bearing a strong affection to it, and earnestly deniring its prosperity and increase.… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

The Nature Of True Moderation 
THE present state of man is neither doomed to constant misery, nor designed for complete happiness.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

The Nature Of True Patriotism Is Exemplified By Jesus 
WHAT is patriotism? The love of our country. But what love? The bigoted love cherished by the Jews, which impelled them to abominate every other nation as accursed?… Read on
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846)

The Near-Sacrifice Of Issac Was A Type Of The Sacrifice Of Christ 
THAT God should send his Son into the world, to suffer a judicial death for the sins of mankind, is an idea so astonishing, that we receive it with difficulty and hesitation.… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

The Necessity Of Baptism For Regeneration To Eternal Life 
THE true necessity of Baptism, a few propositions considered will soon decide.… Read on
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

The Need For A Natural Human Affection For Jesus 
"OUT of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Take these persons, and lead the conversation to the subject of religion.… Read on
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

The Need For A Wedding Garment At The Heavenly Banquet 
DID not Christ die for all mankind? And is not that death said to be "a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world"?… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

The Need For Faith To Benefit From The Holy Sacrament 
BY the advice of the Council of Nicene [Nicaea AD 325], we ought to lift up our minds by faith, and, leaving these inferior and earthly things, there seek it where the Sun of Righteousness ever shineth.… Read on
The Second Book Of Homilies (1571)

The Need For Our Own Endeavours In Laying Hold Of Salvation 
AS THE necessity for our own endeavours, if we are to continue in this state of salvation, is now extensively denied by papular preachers of instantaneous salvation as dishonouring to the finished work of Christ, or at least studiously kept in the background, it may be well to ask the reader's earnest and prayerful attention to the following places, all strictly parallel to this one in the text, and saying the same thing in other words… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

The Need For Sanctification To Follow After Justification 
THE other great privilege of man's redeemed state is sanctification. The injury sustained by the fall could not be completely repaired, nor man's restoration to holiness and righteousness effected, without this additional benefit.… Read on
William Van Mildert (1765-1836)

The Need For Self-Denial In Order To Overcome Persistent Moral Failings 
ONLY an habitual course of prayer and selfdenial can lead to that state of heart, that true and lively faith, to which every thing gives way… Read on
John Bird Sumner (1780-1862)

Neither Bible Study Nor Preaching Can Stand Without God’s Spirit 
THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with his people in prayer. Who can pray without grace?… Read on
George Whitefield (1714-1770)

Neither The Church Of England Nor Its Faith Are New Inventions 
Archbishop Ussher has been asked whether, as an Anglican, he believes that for 1000 years the English Church's communion with Rome meant it has not been a true Church.… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)

The Next World Already Lies Around Us 
AND if there be another world which is to receive us for ever, after our departure hence, the existence of its inhabitants, with whom we are to spend an eternity, becomes a speculation both pleasing and important.… Read on
George Horne (1730-1792)

The Nicene Creed 
I BELIEVE in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible … Read on
Book Of Common Prayer (1662)

No Man Can Merit Justification 
WHETHER a Man can Merit the First Grace for Himself... I answer: we may think of a gift of grace in two ways.… Read on
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Not Until We Are Baptised Are We Truly ‘Born Again’ 
“AS many as are persuaded and believe that the things taught and affirmed by us are true, and undertake to live accordingly, — these are taught to pray, and to beseech with fasting, remission of their former sins at God's hands… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

Now Is The Time To Respond To God’s Free Grace 
GOD hath set us a certain day, and if we pass the time, wo be to us.… Read on
James Ussher (1581-1656)


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The Oblation Of The Last Supper 
THE sum of what these Fathers teach us is, that Christ entered upon His priestly office in the Eucharist… Read on
John Johnson (1662-1725)

The Occasion Of King James’s Prohibition Concerning Predestination 
IN an evil hour did the restless mind of man devise for itself the perilous question of fatalism… Read on
Robert Southey (1774-1843)

Of Itself Baptism Is No Guarantee Of Salvation 
I HEARD of late that there be some wicked persons, despisers of God and his benefits, which say, it is no matter whatsoever we do… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

Of The Nature Of True Justifying Faith 
THE whole of that, which we call saving or justifying faith, is comprised in these two things… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

The Office Of The Holy Ghost Is Not To Bring In New And Contrary Doctrines 
THE proper office of the Holy Ghost is, not to institute and bring in new ordinances, contrary to his doctrine before taught… Read on
The Second Book Of Homilies (1571)

The Offices Of Mercy And The Practice Of Charity 
THE third office of mercy, is the bestowing of alms; or what is commonly called charity.… Read on
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

The Old Testament Meaning Of “Do This In Remembrance” 
The word "anamnesis" is used four times in the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament, but two of these instances occur in the titles of Psalms.… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

On Accepting The Heavenly Emperor’s Free Pardon 
SUPPOSE someone should be caught in the act of adultery and the foulest crimes and then be thrown into prison.… Read on
John Chrysostom (347-407)

On Baptism As The Illumination Of Souls 
ILLUMINATION is the splendour of souls, the conversion of the life, the question put to the Godward conscience … Read on
Gregory Nazianzen (329-389)

On Bearing Christ’s Name And Keeping Christ’s Rule 
AND now, the world standing in this damnable state, cometh in the incarnation of Christ… Read on
Hugh Latimer (1485-1555)

On Being Almost a Christian 
"Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." Acts 26:28 … WHAT more than this, can be implied in the being a Christian altogether?… Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

On Being Beloved Of Our Father 
OUR dear Jesus was never more beloved of his Father than when he cried out, My God!… Read on
George Whitefield (1714-1770)

On Being Diligent To Make Our Election Sure 
Wherefore the rather, Brethren, give Diligence, to make your Calling and Election sure.… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

On Christ As The Husband Of The Soul 
AND can any of you, indeed, upon good grounds say, that your Maker is your husband?… Read on
George Whitefield (1714-1770)

On Knowing Whether The God Of Peace Is With Us 
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good mill towards men AND now, my brethren, the question to be asked is this, Is the Great God at peace with us?… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

On Naming Our Children After Saints 
IT shall not be amiss, to speak a word or two of the naming of your children.… Read on
John Jewel (1522-1571)

On Our Gradual Growth In The Christian Religion 
THE Collect goes back to the lessons inculcated last Sunday, with regard to the love of God… Read on
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)

On Pleasing Our Neighbour 
UNDOUBTEDLY the duty here prescribed is incumbent on all mankind … Read on
John Wesley (1703-1791)

On Seeking After A Sign 
AND, what is very remarkable, they frequently demanded this sign, even immediately after our Saviour had worked the most astonishing miracles , … Read on
Beilby Porteus (1731-1809)

On Sickness, Doctors, And The Importance Of Prayer 
THERE is no calamity, whether it be sickness, or pain, or lameness, or the like, that can befall us, but it is the natural consequence of our depraved, frail, mortal condition, and is incident to good men, as well as to bad… Read on
Thomas Ken (1637-1711)

On The Appeal To The Church Fathers In The Interpretation Of Scripture 
THERE ought to be clearly understood the purpose, for which reference is made to an authority extraneous to holy scripture… Read on
William White (1748-1836)

On The Death Of A Friend 
WHEN a family, who, for years, had been living in comfort and peace, are suddenly shattered by some of their most beloved or respected members being torn from them… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

On The Melting Of The Heart 
THERE is a good nullification of the heart, a good bringing of the heart to nothing.… Read on
John Donne (1572-1631)

On The Proper Celebration Of Monday And Tuesday In Easter Week 
THESE two holy days are added as attendants upon Easter day in honour of this high feast and the more solemnity of it.… Read on
Anthony Sparrow (1612-1685)

On The Words In The Communion ‘A Perpetual Memory’ 
IT is peculiar to this celebration, that the death of our Lord is commemorated therein, not by bare words, as in other prayers, but also by certain sacred symbols, signs, and sacraments, which, according to St.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

On The Words In The Communion ‘Do This In Remembrance’ 
“DO this in remembrance”. That is, of Christ put to death, and sacrificed for us upon the cross, which is the Sacrifice which He truly and properly once made, and whereof we only make a commemoration or representation, toties quoties, as often as we celebrate this His Sacrament, and observe the precepts which He gave us about it.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

On The Words In The Communion ‘That All Thy Whole Church May Obtain Remission Of Sins’ 
“THAT we and all Thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of His passion."… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

On The Words In The Communion ‘That By The Merits Of His Death Etc.’ 
A VERY excellent kind of Sacrifice is this: for to beseech and pray to God the Father by Christ's death and merits, is nothing else, but to offer Christ and Christ's death and merits to God the Father… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

On The Words ‘Priest’ And ‘Altar’ 
TWO words that are much objected against by the Puritans, as being more proper to Jews than Christians, seeing Christ hath abolished the ceremonies of the law.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

On The Words, “Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen” 
OUR Lord concludes the Parable by saying "Many are called, but few are chosen."… Read on
Richard Whately (1787-1863)

One Common Liturgy Is A Sure Defence Against A Fragmented Church 
DND in pursuance of this I consider, that if all christian churches had one common liturgy, there were not a greater symbol to testify, nor a greater instrument to preserve, the catholic communion… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

The One Sacrifice Of Christ Is Set Forth At Each Holy Communion 
NEVERTHELESS this Sacrifice, which by a real Oblation was not to be offered more than once, is, by an eucharistical and devout Commemoration, to be offered up every Day.… Read on
Daniel Brevint (1616-1695)

Only In Christianity Did God Bring His Mercy And His Justice To Loving Terms 
"Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.… Read on
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

The Only Sin For Which There Is No Sacrifice Is The Sin Of Final Apostasy 
IF we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.… Read on
John Sharp (1645-1714)

The Ordination Of Deacons And Their Office 
DEACONS are ordained to their office in the name of God by imposition of the hands of the Bishop alone.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

The Ordination Of Priests And Their Office 
FROM the time of the Apostles it has been by the ministry of the Bishop that the priestly office has been created and continued in the Church.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

Originality Is Not A Desirable Feature In Sound Theology 
GOD knows the secrets of my heart; so far am I from the itch of originality in Theological Doctrines, ...… Read on
George Bull (1634-1710)

The Ornaments Enjoined By The 1662 Book Of Common Prayer 
ON the Accession of Queen Elizabeth [1558], a great controversy arose between the more violent and the more moderate Reformers as to the Church Service which should be re-established, whether it should be according to the First, or according to the Second Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth.… Read on
Church Of England (1857)

The Ornaments Of The Minister And The Altar Are Appointed By The First Prayer Book 
SUCH ornaments, &c.] Without which (as common reason and experience teaches us,) the Majesty of Him that owneth it, and the work of His service there, will prove to be of a very common and low esteem.… Read on
John Cosin (1594-1672)

The Ornaments Rubric 
1662 THE Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel… Read on
Book Of Common Prayer (1662)

Our Churches And Liturgy Should Not Be Slovenly Or Held Cheap 
BUT, surely, I fear these men are not more faulty in the one extreme than many Christians are in the other, who place a kind of holiness in a slovenly neglect, and so order themselves as if they thought a nasty carelessness in God’s services were most acceptable to Him.… Read on
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

Our Confidence In The Holy Communion 
EVERY one, upon the receipt of the Holy Sacrament, hath a fair occasion, yea, reason given him to think thus with himself… Read on
William Beveridge (1637-1708)

Our Daily Sacrifice At The Altar Is Our Commemoration Of Christ’s One Sacrifice 
THE old fathers call that the daily sacrifice that Christ made once for all upon the cross… Read on
John Jewel (1522-1571)

Our Doctrine Of Freewill Must Not Undermine Our Doctrine Of Grace 
“IBESEECH you therefore, brethren," even as the apostle besought the Corinthians, "by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you."… Read on
Augustine Of Hippo (354-430)

Our Earthly Prayer Reflects The Heavenly Prayer Of Christ 
THE holy sacrament is, in its nature and design, a solemn prayer, and the imitation of the intercession, which our glorious High Priest continually makes for us in heaven… Read on
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Our Election Demands Diligence in Obedience Lest We Be Broken Off 
THE Apostle St. Peter writes to all his converts as "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through Sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ" .… Read on
Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1819-1895)

Our Godly Resolutions Must Continue All The Year Round, Not Be Confined To Easter Only 
LET God’s people then recognize that they are a new creation in Christ, and with all vigilance understand by Whom they have been adopted, and Whom they have adopted.… Read on
Gregory I (?540-604)

Our King Should Not Be A Legislator Or Warrior, But Father Of His Nation 
IT IS in general, I fear, a very rude and unthinking estimate that men form of the character of sovereigns… Read on
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)

Our Lives Are In The Hands Of God 
THE counsels of the Almighty are indeed too deep for our limited understandings to trace.… Read on
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

Our Many Inducements To Relieve Misery And Promote Happiness 
THE inducements, that we have, to relieve t