Thomas Chalmers

Essay on Guthrie's The Christian's Great Interest: Part I

There are few subjects or exercises more deeply important to professing Christians, than that which forms the principal topic in the following admirable treatise — the work of self-examination. But self-examination is a work of great difficulty, and is accordingly shrunk from, or altogether…

Essay on Guthrie's The Christian's Great Interest: Part II

Now, when we set about any new exercise whatever, we first begin with that which is easy, and afterwards proceed therefrom to that which is more arduous. In the work of self-examination, there is a scale of difficulty — and it were well perhaps that we should make our first entrance upon the work…

On the Doctrine of Predestination

'And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. - Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.' - Acts xxvii. 22, 31. THE comparison of these two verses lands us in what may…

The Necessity of the Spirit to Give Effect to the Preaching of the Gospel

[/caption] "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." ~ 1 Cor. 2:4-5 PAUL, in his second epistle to the Corinthians, has expressed…