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43 The Lord’s People Righteous
“Perfect and upright.”—Job 1:1 You have read the history of Job, how that Satan desired to sift him as wheat is sifted, affirming that he would make him curse God to his face, and that God granted his request, so far as to suffer his infernal majesty to do his utmost to make Job curse God. But was this to satisfy Satan, or torture Job? No; though no doubt it did both; but to show that wherever God has put his life, it is out of the power of the devil to remove it; and though Beelzebub, with all the soldiers under his command, blew into Job all their infernal venom, yet God held him up, and would not let him curse him; and though…
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45 No Guile In The Spirit, And Keeping Silence
“Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile.”—Psalm 32:2“O!” says some poor soul; “that is not me; for I feel that I am full of guile.” Indeed! Can you then go to the Lord and tell him you have no sin, that you are as good as your neighbours, and that you have a claim upon his mercy? “No,” say you. “I have to tell the Lord that I am full of sin and that I deserve nothing but his wrath.” Then in your spirit there is no guile. God has made you honest, that you can neither attempt to deceive him nor yourself. There is no deceit in you nor about you in this respect. “When I kept silence,” &c. (Ver.…
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46 A Godly Man
“For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found.”—Psalm 32:6 Let us inquire what constitutes a godly man; and, in order to clear the way for this, we will first notice a few things that men may possess, and yet not be godly. We live in a day when we are to have charity for every body and every thing but God and truth, and when we are to have none for them. Men are to be allowed to reject truth, and set up something or anything to oppose it, and we must have charity for them, but none for the truth itself; but this is not the charity of the gospel, for that rejoiceth…
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48 The Tongue Speaking Of Righteousness
A Sermon Preached By William Gadsby At Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Street, London, On Thursday Evening, June 1st, 1843 “And ray tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.”—Psalm 35:28 Perhaps some child of God may say, “Well; a text like this cuts me up, root and branch; for I consider it the language of a child of God, and I cannot, I dare not, say that my tongue speaks of God's righteousness and praise all the day long!” But, then, poor benighted soul, you should recollect it is not always day with God's people; there is night as well as day; and when night comes on, darkness appears, and the beasts of prey begin to show themselves. Unbelief,…
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49 The Starving Beggar Relieved
[It is impossible to give the slightest idea of the impressive manner in which this sermon was spoken, especially as the preacher, at the same time that he was speaking of the poor trembling man knocking, he himself loudly, yet tremblingly, knocked with his knuckles on the side of the pulpit.] “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee.”—Psalm 50:15 Here is a poor ragged starving wretch, seeking for some one to relieve him; but he can find no helper. He sees nothing but starvation and death before him. He must lie down and die. Why, his very seeking for help is praying for it and a proof that he is alive. But a passer-by, seeing him, goes up to him…
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51. The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving
Preached, on Lord's Day Morning, Nov. 1st, 1840, in Manchester. “I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.”—Ps. 116:17. Under the Jewish dispensation, God had appointed a variety of offerings and sacrifices for the Jews, under certain circumstances, to be attended to; and if you turn to Leviticus 7, you will find that the offering of the sacrifice of thanksgiving was to be accompanied with unleavened bread, mingled with oil, with wafers anointed with oil, and with cakes fried in oil. Now in reality, beloved, there is no sacrifice of thanksgiving without this oil; and it is not necessary merely that the wafers should be anointed with oil, but that the fat of the offering should be mingled with oil. The figure imports the…
