Doubt & Assurance

Varying Voices–Pro and Con

… It is assumed, accordingly, that, to be in a state of some hesitancy and doubt, is the sign of intelligence, while to be positive, very sure about anything …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… The guilt of sin, when it is on a man's conscience, is unmistakably there, for it weighs him down to such an extent that he cannot doubt …

Psalm 22

Psalm 22

… No doubt a high degree of feverish burning afflicted the body of our Lord. All his strength was dried up in the tremendous flames of avenging justice, even …

Early Wedded Life

… in place, and then, it looked so fine a library, that none could doubt its right or claim to this honourable appellation. But this is a digression. We …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… I do believe there are hundreds and thousands who remain in doubt and darkness, and go down to despair, because there is a description given and a preparation …

On the Choice of a Text

… Every Holy Ghost preacher, I have no doubt, will have such recollections clustering around his ministry. I say, therefore, watch the course of Providence; cast yourselves upon the …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… I doubt not I am pricking the conscience of some who will do anything for a quiet life and are gradually slipping down to Hell because the way …

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… There were three kinds, differing, no doubt, in sound as well as in form; one was circular, another square or oblong, and the third consisted of two squares …

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… flames of hell beneath him, an angry God above him, and danger and doubt surrounding him. Well might he say, "My bones are shaken." Lest, however, we should …

The New “Helensburgh House,” Nightingale Lane

… He had no doubt said to them, ‘There are crumbs up there; come with me, and get them.’ So they followed him, and they came in greater numbers …

Psalm 142

Psalm 142

… There can be little doubt that this song dates from the days when Saul was sorely persecuting David, and David himself was in soul trouble, probably produced by …

Open-Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon

… may in England be recognised a long way off, but I should gravely doubt a man if he asserted that he understood a new sentence beyond the distance …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… No doubt he is a very good young man, with the best of intentions; but will not this man-worship spoil him? Between the parts of the service …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… to say ? Perhaps you reply, ' What you say is well and good ; no doubt religion is a holy and Heavenly thing ; but, sir, there is one more stone …

Early Religious Impressions

… sadly, compared to “a humble bee in a pitcher,” — a vulgar metaphor, no doubt, but so exactly descriptive, that it brings to my mind the droning sound at …

Memories of Maidstone and Newmarket

… You have no doubt seen your father, when he has no money, give a note-of-hand for it; and this is regarded as an earnest of payment …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… There is a power in the Word that proves it Divine; and he who has once experienced its influence will never doubt its truth. All the Popish arguments …

Wheat in the Barn

… Paul.” I do not know how that will be, but I have not much doubt that we shall have fellowship with all the saints of every age in …

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

… I have no doubt that, if there are inhabitants there, they enjoy the heat. In a spiritual sense, at any rate, we know that men who live near …

Psalm 87

Psalm 87

… No doubt the prayers which the faithful put up to heaven from under their private roofs were very acceptable unto him; but if a saint's single voice …

Lecture V: The Sciences As Sources Of Illustration.

… I have no doubt that, if there are inhabitants there, they enjoy the heat. In a spiritual sense, at any rate, we know that men who live near …

Psalm 30

Psalm 30

… David is quite sure, beyond a doubt, that God has done great things for him, whereof he is exceeding glad. He had descended to the brink of the …

The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations

… I have no doubt that the sight of a death-bed would move men much more than that admirable work called Drelincourt on Death , a book which, I …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man

… This was the sentence executed upon many volumes that cast doubt upon the Divinity of our Lord, the efficacy of His atoning sacrifice, or the inspiration of the …

Lecture III: The Uses Of Anecdotes And Illustrations.

… I have no doubt that the sight of a death-bed would move men much more than that admirable work called "Drelincourt on Death," a book which, I …

Powerful Persuasives

Matthew 11:27-28

… Give him—oh! give him your cause to plead, nor doubt the Father's grace. Poor sinner, he is so wise an advocate that you may well come …

Threshing

… I thank God at every remembrance of my afflictions; I did not doubt his wisdom then, nor have I had any reason to question it since. Our Great …

The Use of the Bow

2 Samuel 1:17

… I declare that there is nothing whatever in Scripture to justify the statement that the words, "the bow," can be applied to David's lament! No doubt, some …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… But I am not afraid of him; don’t you go away with that opinion; he does throw many fiery darts at me, but I have no doubt …

“Westwood”

… practical account by warning them to keep clear of the muddy waters of doubt, and not to trust themselves off terra firma unless they were sure of the …

Retrospect—"The Lord Has Blessed"

Joshua 17:14

… life with tropical force, but we get away to the North Pole of doubt and fear—and then complain that the sun has such little heat—or that …

Joy in Salvation

Psalm 9:4

… And God has put it three times over that there should be no doubt whatever that salvation is of God, and he must have the glory of it …

The Sheep Before the Shearers

… The price of pardon was his blood, His pity ne’er withdrew.” No doubt he looked across the ages; for that eye of his was not dim, even …

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… The poor people understand them and they come into the Church, but no doubt they have a deeper meaning intended only for the initiated." So they began to …

The Pastor's Life Wrapped Up with His People's Steadfastness a Pleading Reminder for the New Year

1 Thessalonians 3:8

… or man—for all these have been removed by the foul finger of doubt! Some go in not so much for disbeliefs as for fanaticisms and, believing nothing …

A Mingled Strain

Psalm 51:7

… not truly applicable to a child of God." I think that nobody will doubt that David was a child of God and that, even when he had defiled …

Taught That We May Teach

Ezekiel 40:4

… Some doctrines we can never doubt. "Oh," said one to me, failing to convince me of some new theories, "no one could get a new idea into your …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890 (Continued)

… might, in the course of a year, be worth ^40,000, and no doubt the persons who undertook the arrangement would earn ten times that amount. What do …

Spiritual Gleaning

… And then, in the last place, the good woman, after threshing the corn, no doubt winnowed it . Ruth did all this in the field; but you can scarcely …

The Spirit and the Wind

John 3:8

… Spirit of judgment and the Spirit of burning." It is a blessing, no doubt, to be filled with the Spirit. But who may abide the day of His …