Including contributions from celebrated preachers and theologians, The Biblical Illustrator provides historical and cultural insight, commentary, illustrations, and more to make your sermons engaging and practical. This volume covers Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians.
“It is not the person that passes away, but his things, his former principles, motives, aims, and habits” (Page 292)
“II. And what is a gift, if it be not received? Like a meal on a dead man’s grave, like light to the blind, like music to the deaf. What is the grace of God without faith? The receiving of it is that which makes it a grace indeed—gospel. We usually compare faith to a hand, which is reached forth to receive this gift. Without a hand a jewel is a trifle, and the treasure of both the Indies is nothing; and without faith the gospel is nothing.” (Page 324)
“Imagine a man regulated by this principle. All his thinkings are, as it were, coloured by the consciousness of God’s presence.” (Page 430)