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- 22:17, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+10,328) . . N Revenge rejected,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Such is the corruption of human nature, such is the weakness of grace in this imperfect state, that, though most true believers ca...") (current)
- 22:16, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,742) . . N How to be rich in heaven,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>If it is prudent to provide for the time to come—how much more so to provide for eternity! While to be rich in this world is the...") (current)
- 22:15, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,757) . . N Our meditations cramped, unless stretched beyond death,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Would any man envy that person's situation as superlatively happy, who were confined to a garden, beautified indeed with all the v...") (current)
- 22:14, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,090) . . N Assurance,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Should not the follies of the world teach me wisdom? The worldling provides for time—and shall I not provide for eternity? But, ...") (current)
- 22:14, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,090) . . N The Bible a store-house of instruction,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Man is not only a worm as to his origen—but a beast as to his knowledge. Hence the most sagacious of Adam's sons would be but fo...") (current)
- 22:14, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,528) . . N On being ill-used,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as...") (current)
- 22:13, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,040) . . N An argument,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Would any person be cast down for an affliction, enduring but for a day—if assured, that his whole after-life should be felicity...") (current)
- 22:13, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,704) . . N Acquaintances,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>We are fond of contracting acquaintances with great and famous men, and sometimes lament the death of some before we were born, an...") (current)
- 22:12, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,878) . . N Noah's ark,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When the ark, which had floated many a day on a fearful flood, rested on the happy Ararat, and Noah, and the numerous creatures wh...") (current)
- 22:12, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,308) . . N The astonishing portions,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>The treasures of kings have sometimes been so vast, as to become proverbial. And yet, what were they but gold or stones dug out of...") (current)
- 22:11, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,778) . . N Extremities,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>God has in all ages been pleased to let matters come to an extremity, before he sent the deliverance; thereby teaching his people ...") (current)
- 22:10, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,406) . . N Love and immortality,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Welcome change, that waits to begin my happiness, and put a termination to my troubles and pain. When this languor and lukewarmnes...") (current)
- 22:10, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,882) . . N Grace.,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Heavenly <strong>grace</strong> implanted in the soul, is the magic stone—which turns everything in our possession into a more...") (current)
- 22:10, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,558) . . N Corruption,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Happy they who have put off—not only mortality, but sin; and have put on—not only immortality, but perfection; and, in triumph...") (current)
- 22:09, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,629) . . N The three-fold state,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Three changes go over the NATURAL world:<br /> 1. the black and dark night;<br /> 2. the fair and beauteous moon-shine;<br /> ...") (current)
- 22:08, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,917) . . N 'Faith',. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p><strong>Faith</strong> is a divine grace, and the very life of the soul below. Hence we are said to "walk by faith;" an...") (current)
- 22:08, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,122) . . N Our short life should not give much concern,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>My mind is like a piece of ground, which, being overrun with weeds, no diligence can render quite clean; and no care can keep them...") (current)
- 22:07, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,775) . . N Unbelief,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Few, I believe, read the history of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, passage through the Red Sea, and daily miraculous provision i...") (current)
- 22:06, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Degrees of nearness to God,. (current)
- 22:06, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,522) . . N Degrees of nearness to God,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There are different degrees of nearness to God, which the saints enjoy. One of these is essential to the very being of piety in th...")
- 22:06, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,738) . . N Connections,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Ignorant mortals are always rash in their conclusions on the conduct of Providence, being blinded in their views, and impatient un...") (current)
- 22:05, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,111) . . N Adoption,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Every true Christian is a freeman; and while the rest of the world are slaves of Satan—the saints are kings and priests to God a...") (current)
- 22:04, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,404) . . N To escape wrath should silence under all afflictions,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When I contemplate a choice thought or two in my mind, I wonder that ever I can have a downcast countenance for all the trials whi...") (current)
- 22:03, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,430) . . N The company of the wicked corrupts,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Under the law, one who touched any dead carcass was defiled. And one who had a running sore—even if he was to wash his clothes, ...") (current)
- 22:03, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,620) . . N Elijah and Elisha, a dialogue,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When the Lord would take up his dear servant Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, the pious Elisha attends his venerable master, and...") (current)
- 22:02, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,929) . . N God's knowledge,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.&quo...") (current)
- 22:02, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,955) . . N Jubilee,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Everything that was written of old, was written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the world have come. Now, Israel, when re...") (current)
- 22:01, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,100) . . N Distance diminishes views,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Things at a distance seem vastly less than what they really are. The lofty hill that seems so large when we are at its base—so l...") (current)
- 22:00, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,747) . . N God his people's inheritance,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>The priests in Israel were allowed to approach nearer to God than others, and were enriched with many excellent privileges; yet th...") (current)
- 22:00, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,507) . . N The glorious fruits of sanctified affliction,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison!" (2 Corin...") (current)
- 21:59, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,178) . . N Affliction the common lot of the saints,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When I consider the conduct of Providence towards all his saints, I should rather be astonished that I am permitted to pass throug...") (current)
- 21:59, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,387) . . N The casting of the scales or balances,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is a real difference between the righteous and the wicked. The one is the heir of bliss, the other the child of the curse. B...") (current)
- 21:58, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,052) . . N True riches,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"All things are yours!" (1 Corinthians 3:21)<br><br> What, Christian! do you complain of poverty? Do you cry out of need...") (current)
- 21:58, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,248) . . N The world deeply rooted in the affections,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>How often, when reading the history of the children of Israel going up out of Egypt, have I condemned their longing for their fles...") (current)
- 21:57, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,614) . . N Mercies, though apparently delayed, come at the appointed time,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>How is it that thoughts rise in my mind about the promise proving abortive? or how can I conclude that the delays of Providence ar...") (current)
- 21:57, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,574) . . N Saints honorable,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Among the failings with which the saints are chargeable surely this is one—Too low apprehensions of their own greatness—which ...") (current)
- 21:56, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,949) . . N Still descriptions fall short of glory,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Oh! what must that happiness be, which is laid up on high! that glory that is reserved to be revealed!<br><br> When God sets forth...") (current)
- 21:56, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,453) . . N The heavenly vision assimilating,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There are a thousand unfathomable depths in divine love. Who can open the everlasting treasuries, or look into these unseen glorie...") (current)
- 21:55, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,324) . . N Self-flatterers,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good."...") (current)
- 21:55, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,926) . . N All God's ways equal,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>This is a truth at all times, and in all circumstances, to be acknowledged, that <em>all God's ways are just and equal</em>. Yes ...") (current)
- 21:54, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,016) . . N Crucifixion,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is a reciprocal crucifixion which I should desire and seek after. First, that the world may be crucified unto me. And, secon...") (current)
- 21:54, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,024) . . N A pleasant consideration,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is one consideration that may make me endure affliction with fortitude, and triumph in my trouble, which is—That what I en...") (current)
- 21:53, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,915) . . N Harmony in God's procedure with the church,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Wonderful are you, O Lord! and stupendous are your ways. The harmony that prevails, and the glory that shines in all your governme...") (current)
- 21:53, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,440) . . N Causes of humility,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>As only in night dreams I cross impassable rivers, climb tremendous precipices, or fly in the open air; so it is only in spiritual...") (current)
- 21:52, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,272) . . N The aggrandizing visit,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>If a fellow-creature, who has gathered together more riches than many of his acquaintance, or has attained to more honor, and has ...") (current)
- 21:52, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,957) . . N Christ, and none but he, satisfies desires,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is a restless, a boundless desire in the mind of man for something which this world in all its glory is unable to bestow. Th...") (current)
- 21:51, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,750) . . N The excellency of religion,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>The world may say as it will of the Christian religion—but it is only by it that the human mind is exalted, and men rise into et...") (current)
- 21:50, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,707) . . N The forgiveness of injuries,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>To forgive our enemies, and forget the injuries which have been done to us, is a noble, though very difficult duty. And from the o...") (current)
- 21:50, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,606) . . N Mercies abused,. (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Many are the mercies we receive from heaven. It is shocking to think how we convert these mercies into an occasion of sin, and mak...") (current)
- 21:49, 3 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-20) . . The confusion of the wicked at the general judgment,. (current)
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