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- 21:55, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,447) . . N 104. 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)
- 21:54, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,629) . . N 103. 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)
- 21:54, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+15,731) . . N 102. A glance into heavenly bliss (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>All at once I find myself in an unbounded flood of bliss, a spacious sea of glory—lost in wonder amidst ineffable divinities, an...") (current)
- 21:53, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,938) . . N 101. 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)
- 21:53, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,972) . . N 100. 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)
- 21:53, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,103) . . N 99. 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...") (current)
- 21:52, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,748) . . N 98. 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)
- 21:52, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+8,508) . . N 97. 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)
- 21:51, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,195) . . N 96. 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)
- 21:51, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,396) . . N 95. 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)
- 21:50, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,053) . . N 94. 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)
- 21:50, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,257) . . N 93. 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)
- 21:49, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,631) . . N 92. Mercies, though apparently delayed, (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)
- 21:49, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,591) . . N 91. 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)
- 21:48, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,956) . . N 90. 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)
- 21:48, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,462) . . N 89. 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)
- 21:47, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,341) . . N 88. 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)
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 87. All God's ways equal (current)
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,929) . . N 87. 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...")
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,007) . . N 86. 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)
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,025) . . N 85. 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)
- 21:45, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,940) . . N 84. 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)
- 21:44, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,449) . . N 83. 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)
- 21:44, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,281) . . N 82. 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)
- 21:44, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,956) . . N 81. 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)
- 21:43, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,744) . . N 80. 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)
- 21:42, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,710) . . N 79. 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)
- 21:42, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,613) . . N 78. 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)
- 21:41, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,629) . . N 77. The confusion of the wicked at the general judgment (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Alas! men now sin with impunity and boldness—but when I dart my thoughts beyond the grave, and see the unrepentant sinning multi...") (current)
- 21:41, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,483) . . N 76. Contradictions (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>I am ever guilty of some folly, some unaccountable folly. Either my faith condemns my fears, or my fears accuse my faith of folly....") (current)
- 21:40, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,596) . . N 75. The spiritual miser (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Who is more an object of ridicule than the rich miser—who goes supperless to bed, because he will not give one farthing out of h...") (current)
- 21:40, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,073) . . N 74. What we should expect and wait for (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>How are our joys heightened by hope. But sadly—sometimes our hopes may be false! And how vainly are our expectations pointed at ...") (current)
- 21:39, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,942) . . N 73. The approaching happiness of the saints (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>To escape my present sorrow, and triumph in the midst of my present grief, let me suppose eternity is at hand, which <em>may </e...") (current)
- 21:39, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,243) . . N 72. The madness of the world in their choice (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Why does the world reject the Savior of the world? Why do they abhor him who is altogether lovely—and hate him who is the best F...") (current)
- 21:38, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,610) . . N 71. This life a valley of tears (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Why have I mistaken this thorny wilderness—for a garden of flowers? Why have I mistaken this place of danger—for a palace of d...") (current)
- 21:37, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,051) . . N 70. The soul's growth (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When I look back a few years, I recollect, that my thoughts about common things were much contracted to what they are now. "W...") (current)
- 21:37, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,425) . . N 69. Torment (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>People generally have a mistaken notion of torment. I shudder to hear of protracted agonies on the dying malefactor—to hear of t...") (current)
- 21:36, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,308) . . N 68. Nothing can purchase Christ from the soul (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"What is your Beloved more than another beloved?" was once asked of the spouse by those who knew him not so well as she ...") (current)
- 21:36, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,831) . . N 67. Still ignorant of God below (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>It was a question proposed long ago, by a great teacher, in his divine lectures of God, "What is his name, and what is his So...") (current)
- 21:35, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,023) . . N 66. The world asleep (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>The whole world is, with respect to the future eternal state, as it were, fast asleep. In this night of universal darkness and ign...") (current)
- 21:34, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,275) . . N 65. Christ, the study above (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>I read with pleasure, O philosophers! your lectures, and commend your care to make the mute creation preach the power and wisdom o...") (current)
- 21:33, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,196) . . N 64. More of God seen in Christ than in all the creation (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p> There is a great noise among the educated men of our day, how God is to be seen and felt, as it were, in his handy-works. True, ...") (current)
- 21:32, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,904) . . N 63. Events of providence (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Unbelief is my worst enemy, and most disturbs my mental quiet; and no wonder it so harasses me, when it attacks the very faithfuln...") (current)
- 21:31, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,470) . . N 62. Indwelling sin (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is a mysterious wisdom in the way of God with his people—to whom he grants to know but in part, and to be renewed but in p...") (current)
- 21:30, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,820) . . N 61. Saints have the greatest reason to rejoice (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>No wonder that Paul doubles his admonition to the converted Philippians, "Rejoice in the Lord always—again I say rejoice;&q...") (current)
- 21:29, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,165) . . N 60. On the last day of the year (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Time is measured, and is alike at both ends; it began with a day, and will end with a day. Hence the evening and the morning were ...") (current)
- 20:43, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,618) . . N 59. Brevity of life (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"What is your life? You are a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away!" (James 4:14)<br><br> What...") (current)
- 20:42, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,193) . . N 58. Sensible communion with God sometimes enjoyed (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Though every child in the family of heaven has real fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ; yet there are happy...") (current)
- 20:40, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,363) . . N 57. Wrath (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>I have hitherto had faint views of divine wrath, though I have indeed had frightful apprehensions of fire; gloomy ideas of the bot...") (current)
- 20:37, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,893) . . N 56. On loving God (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>To love you—is my honour. That I may love you—is my privilege. And in as far as I do love you—so far am I happy.<br><br> Ho...") (current)
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