3 John

What sort of persons they gathered into Christ's fold they themselves everywhere teach. They were born again, called with a holy and effectual calling, godly, faithful, holy, washed, justified, separated from the world and from all evil, children of God, instructed and anointed…

A good Christian does always keep as in God's eye and presence, much more when he calls upon his name; now every sight of God does more affect and change the heart, as none but the pure in heart see God; so none see God but are most pure in heart, there is a self-purifying in mo…

3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper, and be in health, even as your soul prospers. What a horrid blunder has one of the famous, or rather infamous, deistical writers made, when he says, that the gospel cannot be of God, because there is no such thing…

And they are charged to feed the flock, therefore pastors. (2 John 1) and (3 John 1) John the Apostle without all question is called an Elder. Ignatius makes often mention of Elders, or Presbyters in his Epistles, but never of Lay-Elders.

Job's greatest care was that his children should be sanctified. And every parent ought to say of his natural children, as the apostle John does of his spiritual children (3 John 1:4), I have no greater joy, than to hear that my children walk in the truth. Fifthly, Job was a holy…

If the body be but a little diseased, if we want an appetite to a meal, or a little sleep in the night, we complain of it immediately, we inquire what's the cause, and look for a remedy: but what a wonderful disproportion is there as to the soul? It's a strange expression that (…

If he takes away our quiet, and gives us peace of conscience; our worldly goods, and gives us true riches — have we cause to complain? If outward wants are recompensed with an abundance of inward grace, if we have less of the world that we may have more of God, a healthy soul in…

According to the usual style of the sacred writings, (1 Corinthians 15:34) Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. (3 John 1:11) He that sins (that is, that is a doer of sin, [illegible], a worker of iniquity) has not seen God. 2. Such as liv…

Good works are taken either in a more large sense for all such actions of regenerate men, as they do by the help of the Holy Spirit, in conformity to the law of God. As he that does good is said to be of God (3 John 1:11), and governors are said to be for the praise of those tha…