What is holy zeal? From Revelation 3:19, “Be Zealous,” Ashe divides his work into 8 parts. Part 1 explains the text expounding on what Christ means in being zealous. Parts 2-3 briefly describe how zeal is to be exercised for good, and how it is to be exercised against evil. His main objective will come to light in parts 4 and 5, dealing with those who are not zealous – how they should be – and then teaches the motives by which Christians may be provoked to seek the increase of holy zeal in their life. In part 6 he covers the means to be used for obtaining zeal, with hindrances to be avoided, and then demonstrates all Gospel administrations, being rightly used as a means to increase true biblical zeal. In part 7 he gives nine rules to guide Christians to improve zeal in their life, and then ends in part 8 with an incitement to magistrates, ministers and private Christians to improve zeal, especially seen in not profaning the Sabbath, attendance on sacred ordinances, and that ministers may be encouraged to perform their duties for the betterment of the church and nation. Do you have a heart enflamed with zeal for God, true zeal, true biblical heat and spiritual fervor? If your outward performance of true religion stems from the inward change made by the Holy Spirit, then such zealous action on behalf of Christ is heartily commendable. True regenerate Christians should be taking heaven by storm, violently seizing the Kingdom of God by force, and pressing into the Kingdom with all their might. Yet, though there are those who glorify Christ in their religious zeal through obedience to the revealed word, there are also those who perform external religious acts remaining still unconverted. Those who are living under the eminent means of grace but possess a superficial affection to the things of God are called Gospel hypocrites, and their zeal is fake. They introduce a form of godliness but deny the power of God, and so the Apostle Paul says that, “from such turn away,” (2 Tim. 3:5). Ashe did not preach and write this treatise simply for the sake of being informative. He heartily desired to see the people of God in his day transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit towards a heated zeal for the means of grace. As Ashe will show, it is the command of Jesus Christ for every Christian church member to be zealous. This work is not a scan or facsimile, has been carefully transcribed by hand being made easy to read in modern English, and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
God’s power and saving hand is the only means to turn a fallen sinner from darkness to the Light of Christ. This was the basic and fundamental teaching about salvation that Jesus Christ taught. God demonstrates through the entire Bible that the only means by which men may be saved is through the regenerating power of the Spirit of God changing their heart, and making them a new creature in Christ, because of Christ, and for Christ’s glory. Simeon Ashe proves this from the text of John 6:44, “No man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.” He covers six doctrines out of this text, stemming from a divine affection, “no man can come to me except the Father which has sent me draw him.” And a precious promise, “and I will raise him up at the last day.” He precisely confirms this by six important doctrines: that Christ as mediator between God and man was sent by the Father. That all men in their natural condition are absent and at a distance from Christ. That there is a necessity of man’s coming to Christ. That all those who come to Christ are drawn to him, for no man comes to Christ without being drawn. That the drawing of sinful souls to Christ is the peculiar work of God. He then demonstrates in a chapter on drawing sinners to Christ, how that drawing occurs through conviction and conversion, and shows that this one text alone demolishes the Arminian idea that man’s will is free to come to God at any time. Instead, following Christ’s words, he teaches that in the point of man’s free will and power, people come to Christ at God’s sovereign pleasure. Ashe teaches that not only is there solid, incontrovertible biblical evidence for a sinful man to be drawn to Christ by the efficient power of the Lord’s regenerating Spirit (Christ’s specific teaching on the matter), but that there are a host of biblical arguments which persuade gratitude from the Christian for such drawing. This work is not a scan or facsimile, has been carefully transcribed by hand being made easy to read in modern English, and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
The aim in preparing this work of sermons has been to publish some of the best sermons of the reformed pulpit (or reformed teaching) from the halls of church history - sermons that line up with biblical exegesis and reformation teaching. It is believed that these sermons will be found valuable as examples of great preaching. They will be without a doubt helpful to those who seek reading expositions of the Word of God for the upbuilding of personal character and for strengthening their Christian faith to walk more closely with Jesus Christ. The sermons have been chosen in some cases for their literary and rhetorical excellences, but in every case for their helpfulness in solving some of the problems of Christian living and reformation to glorify God. This volume contains some never before published sermons such as those by Simeon Ashe, Lazarus Seamen, Alexander Henderson and John Hooper, and some important sermons such as the ones by John Calvin and Savanarola. This is not a scan or facsimile, and contains an active table of contents for electronic versions.
How thankful are you to God? Or are you stoic? Do you just bite your upper lip and make it through the day, or are you truly thankful in it? Here is the biblical test to your thankfulness: if you are thankful, how well do you keep God’s commandments? These are conjoined together. Simeon Ashe will teach you that giving thanks to God is not only about “lip-service” but about “doing.” It is not enough to state, “God knows my heart.” Rather, Ashe will show you that God requires the biblical action of "giving" real thankfulness. Yes, real thankfulness is an attitude, but it is also, and more importantly, an action. Ashe works from Psalm 105:45, “That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.” He will explain real thankfulness in 6 important parts. He exegetes his text, explains his text, shows the reader how his text informs us of real thanksgiving, how people cast off being thankful by their unthankfulness, exhorts us to consider carefully being thankful in 8 crucial points, and then gives the reader some incitements to Christian duty before God’s holy gaze. Overall, he shows that man’s regular observation of all God’s commandments is the end of all God’s glorious administrations for man’s comfort, which then in turn becomes real thanksgiving. So, without true obedience before God, the Christian cannot really be thankful to God for who he is and what he has done in Christ Jesus. This is the heart of Ashe’s teaching as it is the heart of his text to render the Christian able to give real thanksgiving to God. This work is not a scan or facsimile, has been carefully transcribed by hand being made easy to read in modern English, and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
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