Alexander Carson

There is No Danger from Which the Lord Cannot Rescue His People

December 14, 2021 2 min read

How grateful ought Christians to be who live in a land of liberty What a blessing it is to have the exercise of their religion secured to them by the laws of the state If any of them are so ill-inform

John V. 17

May 21, 2008 63 min read

The Jews sought to kill Jesus because he performed miracles on the Sabbath His defence was My Father worketh hitherto and I work Here the ground of the defence is that in Providence God continues to w

The Word of God the Paramount Authority With Respect to the Doctrine of Providence

May 20, 2008 8 min read

But in the decision of this question there is an appeal from the speculations of philosophy to the paramount authority of the word of God It is not strange that philosophers who believe not the Script

Defence of the Doctrine of Providence: With an Examination of Dr Thomas Brown's Philosophy on the Subject of Providence

May 19, 2008 29 min read

In reading the works of philosophers Christians may be deceived by the ample and reverential manner in which they seem to recognise Providence But the Providence which they generally recognise is mere

Christ the Sun of Righteousness

May 18, 2008 3 min read

The resemblances that are found between things in nature are of great importance not merely for the enlivening of human speech but for the illustration of truth The Spirit of God in revelation avails

Angels Created to Minister to the Heirs of Salvation

May 17, 2008 3 min read

For what purpose were the angels created What purpose do they serve The answer to the last question will afford an answer to the first Paul tells us what is the occupation of the angels Are they not a

Trophimus Left Sick by Paul at Miletum

May 16, 2008 2 min read

Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick Did you Paul And why did you leave him sick when you possessed the power of working miracles Why were you so profuse of your miracles in Melita while you are so s

Timothy Advised by Paul to Take a Little Wine for the Sake of His Health

May 15, 2008 2 min read

Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities This is another of the passages in which our wise men cannot see any necessity for inspiration Paul they

Paul's Cloak Left at Troas

May 14, 2008 5 min read

The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when thou comest bring with thee and the books but especially the parchments Did Paul need any inspiration to inform him that he left his cloak with a certai

Collection in Greece for the Poor Saints at Jerusalem

May 13, 2008 2 min read

Divine Providence had reduced the church at Jerusalem to great distress by poverty This was peculiarly calculated to cement the union between the Jewish and the Gentile brethren It served to soften th

Abuse of the Lord S Supper at Corinth

May 12, 2008 2 min read

There can be nothing more surprising than the fact placed before us in this passage Could it be imagined that after the apostle had been so long with them when they had for such a period enjoyed his p

Law-Suits Unbecoming Between Christians

May 11, 2008 4 min read

Between the most upright men there may often be a difference of judgment with respect to matters of property Hence occasions of dispute and litigation Instances of this sort had occurred in the church

The Incestuous Man in the Church at Corinth

May 10, 2008 3 min read

Strange Is Jesus the ruler of his churches and does he permit the occasion of such reproach to his cause Why did he not prevent the admission of this man of whom he must have been fully aware Why did

Hesitancy in Receiving Paul Bt the Church at Jerusalem

May 9, 2008 2 min read

Faith in Jesus Christ is the only bond of the union of Christians and no questions ought ever to be put to any who seek admission among them but such as are intended to ascertain this To refuse any wh

Providential Character of the Standard of the Christian Religion

May 8, 2008 4 min read

In giving a standard for the guidance of all ages in the doctrines precepts and ordinances of Christ we would have naturally expected that all would have been drawn up in a formal full and precise sys

Paul Sent to Rome in a Providential Way

May 7, 2008 20 min read

Paul expected to visit Rome and God intended to send him there But Paul's expectations and God's intentions as to the manner of his conveyance to the seat of the empire of the world were very differen

Assault on Paul in the Temple Providentially Afforded Him an Opportunity of Defending Himself, and Preaching the Gospel to Persons of the First Distinction

May 6, 2008 3 min read

A careless observer unacquainted with the ways of God would have judged the assault on Paul in the Temple and his consequent imprisonment to be unfortunate circumstances Providence he would think was

Preservation of Paul From the Jews in the Temple

May 5, 2008 3 min read

Another escape for your life Paul Never were you in greater danger The murderers have you in their hands and they are in the very act of beating you to death But you are saved by Providence without a

Fall of Eutychus From a Window in the Third Loft, During the Preaching of Paul at Troas

May 4, 2008 5 min read

And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus being fallen into a deep sleep and as Paul was long preaching he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up de

Paul Preserved by the Recorder of Ephesus

May 3, 2008 5 min read

Paul was never in more imminent danger than on the present occasion and Divine inspiration gives us here a specimen of one of the ways in which Providence works in the preservation of Christians The e