Category: Writings by C. H. Mackintosh.
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Each Member — A Help or a Hindrance: Which? By C. H. Mackintosh
A question for all in the assembly. Of the many favours conferred upon us by our ever-gracious Lord, one of the very highest is the privilege of being present in the assembly of His beloved people, where He has recorded His name. We may assert with all possible confidence that…
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Prayer and the Prayer Meeting. By C. H. Mackintosh
“Praying always with all prayer and supplications in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” — Ephesians 6:18. {Note: This paper has been, for some time, in circulation in America. It is now sent forth to the whole church of God — the body of Christ — with earnest prayer that the Holy…
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“Publicly and from house to house”. By C. H. Mackintosh
The sentence which we have just penned is taken from Paul’s farewell address to the elders of Ephesus, as recorded in Acts 20. It is a very suggestive sentence, and sets forth in a most forcible manner the intimate connection between the work of the teacher and that of the pastor.…
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“Peace”. John 20:19-21. By C. H. Mackintosh
n the passage which stands at the head of this paper we have the word “peace,” in a twofold sense, first, as applied to the inner life; and secondly, to the outer life of the Christian disciple. “Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,…
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Our Standard and Our Hope. By C. H. Mackintosh
There are two very important principles presented in Revelation 3:3, 11, which are profoundly interesting, but clear, simple, easily grasped, and full of power, when understood — two distinct things which characterise the overcomer. The first is the truth that has been communicated; and the second, the hope that is set before…
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One-sided Theology. [Calvinism and Arminianism]. By C. H. Mackintosh
We have lately received a long letter, furnishing a very striking proof of the bewildering effect of one-sided theology. Our correspondent is evidently under the influence of what is styled the high school of doctrine. Hence, he cannot see the rightness of calling upon the unconverted to “come,” to “hear,”…
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The Living God and a Living Faith. By C. H. Mackintosh
There is one great substantial fact standing prominently forth on every page of the volume of God, and illustrated in every stage of the history of God’s people — a fact of immense weight and moral power at all times, but specially in seasons of darkness, difficulty, and discouragement, occasioned…
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Living by Faith. By C. H. Mackintosh
“The just shall live by faith.” This weighty statement occurs in the second chapter of the prophet Habakkuk; and it is quoted by an inspired apostle in three of his Epistles, namely, Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews, with a distinct application in each. In Romans 1:17 it is applied to the great question of righteousness.…
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Life-works. By C. H. Mackintosh
“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to them who are of the household of faith.” Galatians 6:10 If aught could enhance the value of these lovely words, it would be the fact of their being found at the close of the Epistle to the Galatians.…
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Landmarks and Stumblingblocks – The Doctrine of Election Misplaced. By C. H. Mackintosh
“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old have set in thine inheritance.” (Deuteronomy 19:14) “Take up the stumblingblock out of the way of My people.” (Isaiah 57:14) What tender care, what gracious considerateness, breathe in the above passages! The ancient landmarks were not to be removed;…
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John the Baptist — only “a voice”. By C. H. Mackintosh
Questions and how to meet them. I have been very much interested of late in looking at the excellent way in which John the Baptist met the various questions which came before him; for, alas! there were questions in his day, as there are in ours. What I specially refer…
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Jehovah’s Demand and Satan’s Objections. By C. H. Mackintosh
“Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness” Exodus 5:1. What a volume of truth is contained in this sentence! It is one of those comprehensive and suggestive passages which lie scattered up and down the divine volume, and which seize, with peculiar power,…
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Israel and the Nations. Psalm 67. By C. H. Mackintosh
It would greatly tend to give clearness and definiteness to missionary effort to keep fully before our minds God’s original purpose in sending the gospel to the Gentiles, or nations. This we have stated in the most distinct manner in Acts 15. “Simeon has declared,” says James, “how God at the…
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“There is one body”. By C. H. Mackintosh
Psalm 93; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19 These scriptures set forth a truth which I believe to be of cardinal importance to every one of us, individually as well as corporately: the Church as a whole is the temple of God; and every believer is made such as really, as literally,…
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“Holy Brethren.” By C. H. Mackintosh
“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus.” (Hebrews 3:1) “And let us consider one another, to provoke to love and good works.” (Hebrews 10:24) The two passages we have just penned, are very intimately connected. Indeed, they are bound together by the simple…
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Grace and Government. By C. H. Mackintosh
This title may possibly present a theme to which some of our readers have not given much of their attention; and yet few themes are more important. Indeed, we believe that the difficulty felt in expounding many passages of Holy Scripture, and in interpreting many acts of divine providence, is…
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God’s Fulness for an Empty Vessel. By C. H. Mackintosh
1 Samuel 4 and 7. The two chapters given above furnish a most impressive illustration of a principle which runs all through the inspired volume, namely, that the moment man takes his right place, God can meet him in perfect grace — free, sovereign, unqualified grace: the fullness of God waits on…
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Eternal Punishment v Universalism and Annihilationism. By C. H. Mackintosh
John 3:36. I have been thinking a good deal of late, on the last verse of the third chapter of John. It seems to me to furnish a most powerful answer to two of the leading heresies of this our day, namely, Universalism on the one hand, and Annihilationism, on the other: “He that…
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Epaphras, The Service of Prayer. By C. H. Mackintosh
Colossians 4:12. There is a very striking difference between the inspired records of the people of God and all human biographies. The former may truly be said to be “much in little”; while many of the latter may as truly be said to be “little in much.” The history of one of the Old…
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Divine Titles. By C. H. Mackintosh
It is at once interesting, instructive, and edifying to mark the various titles under which God appears in the Holy Scriptures. These titles are expressive of certain characters and relationships in which God has been pleased to reveal Himself to man; and we are persuaded that the Christian reader will…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 