Category Archives: Memoir & Remains of Robert Murray M’Cheyne

A Scots Presbyterian devotional classic, of which Spurgeon said “This is one of the best and most profitable volumes every published.”

Comfort, life and holiness…

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

My longing desire for you was, that Jesus would reveal Himself to you in the breaking of bread,–that you might have heart-filling views of the lovely person of Immanuel, and might draw from Him rivers of comfort, life and holiness. M’Cheyne, Ninth Pastoral Letter Memoir … Continue reading →

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Christ’s sufferings and obedience alone…

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Keep clear your sense of justification; remember it is not your own natural goodness, nor your tears, nor your sanctification, that will justify you before God. It is Christ’s sufferings and obedience alone. M’Cheyne, Memoir and Remains, Seventh Pastoral Letter, 244

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The noblest science…

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

This is the noblest science, to know how to live in hourly communion with God in Christ. McCheyne, R. M., & Bonar, A. A. (1894). Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne (p. 146). Edinburgh; London: Oliphant Anderson … Continue reading →

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Needed trial…

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

“I have told you that you needed trial, and now it is come. May you be exercised thereby, and come to that happy ‘afterwards’ of which the apostle speaks.” M’Cheyne McCheyne, R. M., & Bonar, A. A. (1894). Memoir and … Continue reading →

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If the veil were lifted…

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

If the veil of the world’s machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God’s children. M’Cheyne McCheyne, R. M., & Bonar, A. A. (1894). Memoir and Remains of the Rev. … Continue reading →

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A poor saviour in the day of wrath…

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

A minister will make a poor saviour in the day of wrath. It is not knowing a minister, or loving one, or hearing one, or having a name to live, that will save. You need to have your hand on … Continue reading →

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Whatever the quickening instrument…

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening … Continue reading →

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The only true origin…

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

Clear conviction of sin is the only true origin of dependence on another’s righteousness, and therefore (strange to say!) of the Christian’s peace of mind and cheerfulness. M’Cheyne McCheyne, R. M., & Bonar, A. A. (1894). Memoir and Remains of … Continue reading →

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Holier and wiser…

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

Pray for me, that I may be made holier and wiser—less like myself, and more like my heavenly Master; that I may not regard my life, if so be I may finish my course with joy McCheyne, R. M., & … Continue reading →

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