The following morning prayer comes from the classic devotional book by Lewis Bayley (1565-1631?), The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. I have not edited the prayer, but revised some of the wording slightly to reflect modern language and punctuation.
Another short Morning Prayer.
O most gracious God, and merciful [...]
The following morning prayer comes from the classic devotional book by Lewis Bayley (1565-1631?), The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. In the introduction to the latest reprinted edition by Soli Deo Gloria Publications, Dr. Joel Beeke writes about the books popularity:
“In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this [...]
I know The Da Vinci Code is old news, but while sorting through papers in my study I came across this column I wrote last year for the the local newspaper. It caught my eye because I just finished teaching an adult Bible study class on the canon of Scriptures, and in that class we [...]
There has been a very interesting and important theological discussion going on among some significant Reformed writers about credobaptism (the doctrine that Christian baptism should be reserved for believers), paedobaptism (the baptism of infants), the Lord’s Supper and Church membership.
These men are wrestling with how to properly and practically balance doctrinal purity and truth [...]
Here is the last part of the section from the book The Practice of Piety where Lewis Bayly gives advice to Christians on what to do when they doubt God’s mercy. Bayly identifies this as the sixth of six different assaults of Satan on believers:
Satan’s Sixth Assault
And last, if Satan tries to persuade you that [...]
Following is part 5 of 6 of a section from the book The Practice of Piety where Lewis Bayly gives advice to Christians on what to do when they doubt God’s mercy. Here Bayly identifies the fifth of six different assaults of Satan on believers:
Satan’s Fifth Assault
If Satan tempt you to despair with the suggestion [...]
Here is part 4 of 6 of a section from the book The Practice of Piety where Lewis Bayly gives advice to Christians on what to do when they doubt God’s mercy. Bayly identifies the fourth of six different assaults of Satan on believers:
Satan’s Fourth Assault
If Satan suggests to you that God’s mercy does not [...]
This is Part 2 of 6 of a quotation from the book The Practice of Piety where Lewis Bayly gives advice to Christians on what to do when they doubt God’s mercy. He examines six different ways that Satan assaults believers:
Satan’s Second Assault
If Satan tells you that you have no faith because you have no [...]
By far and away the most popular post on my blog has been “Will God Forgive My Sin?” where I gave a quotation from the book The Practice of Piety by Lewis Bayly, a very popular book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For the next six days, Lord willing, I hope to expand on [...]
Dr. Al Mohler says that Evangelicals should be neither offended nor surprised that the Roman Catholic is the only true church.
Aren’t you offended? That is the question many Evangelicals are being asked in the wake of a recent document released by the Vatican. The document declares that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true [...]
