- Principle Duty of Husband and Wife
A principal duty between husband and wife is with special care and skill and diligence to help each other in the knowledge and worship and obedience of God in order to …
- Richard Baxter on Sermon Notes
Writing is an easy help for memory, to those who can use it. Some question whether they should use it, because it hinders their affection. But that must be differently …
- A Holy Family
A holy, well-governed family is the preparative to a holy and well-governed church.
If masters of families did their part, and sent such polished materials to the …
- Family Reformation
Family reformation is the easiest in the most likely way to a common reformation; at least to send many souls to heaven, and train up multitudes for God, if it reached …
- Chew the Cud
Chew the cud, and call up all when you come home in secret, by meditation preach it over yourselves. If it were coldly delivered by the preacher, do you consider the …
- Improve What you Hear
And when hypocrites and distempered Christians are quarreling with the imperfections of the speaker, or congregation, the mode of worship, do you rather make it your …
- Singles in the Service of God
O that single persons knew (for the most part) the preciousness of their leisure, and how free they are to attend the service of God, and learn his Word, in comparison of …
- Lamentably Ignorant
I am daily forced to admire how lamentably ignorant many of our people are, that have seemed diligent hearers of me these 10 or 12 years, while I spoke as plainly as I …
- The End of Education
Your study of physics and other sciences is not worth a rush, if it be not God that you seek after in them. To see and admire, to reverence and adore, to love and delight …
- Observe their Graces
Observe their graces more than their infirmities. You cannot love them unless you take notice of that goodness which is their loveliness. Overlooking and extenuating the …