God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.