Seeing the devil is so cunning and subtle, it may seem a paradox why he will endeavour to frustrate the designs of an Omniscient Being, or to pretend to controvert him that is omnipotent, and will not suffer any thing but what is for his own glory, seeing that God turns every thing he does to the greater and more illustrious advancement of his own honour.

The only-begotten Son has declared the Father. He has fully displayed His matchless grace and fathomless love by coming here and dying for poor sinners. When He left the earth, He sent the Holy Spirit, so that we now have not a Moses, but the third Person of the Trinity to guide us. God made known His laws unto Israel, but His complete Word is now in our hands. What more can He say, than to us He has said- How great is our responsibility- how immeasureably greater than Israel's is our sin and guilt, if we despise Him who speaks to us- Exposition of Hebrews 3-7-12

This biographical sketch focuses more on the teachings of Pink, or Pink as a writer compared to the first lesson taught in 2009.

Over the years, people have been helped by listening to this story, but it was given live only once 13 years ago. This is a studio version. The work of God during 3 1-2 years of awakening. Why hope of assurance is sometimes long delayed. Also an overview of 35 years of narrating Christian books and sermons.

A reading from The Treasury of David, Psalm 2

It is the duty of every believer to labour after an assurance of a personal interest in forgiveness, and to be diligent in the cherishing and preservation of it when it is attained. The apostle exhorts us all unto it, Heb. x. 22, -Let us draw near in full assurance of faith-- that is, of our acceptance with God through forgiveness in the blood of Jesus.

Who of us present here can say, we have been deeply enough, and graciously enough, affected with them- Certainly, both you and I may bring a charge against ourselves before the throne of God for this neglect, that we have not been thoroughly humbled for, and frequently bewailed public iniquities, and spread them before God in secret. If we are unconcerned in common sins, can we imagine God will leave us unconcerned in common judgments- If we endeavour not to keep up the glory of God, he will extract glory to himself out of our ashes.

The show which they make in their prayers, is quite inconsistent with their hearts. Their very approach to God in this duty has a show of religion in it without the reality. And those things they say in their prayers are hypocritical dissembling pretences. They profess honour, reverence, trust, humility, a sense of unworthiness, repentance towards God, trust in Christ as a Mediator, a willingness to forsake sin, from which they pray to be delivered, and thankfulness for the divine mercies. They are forward in religious conversation, in giving an account of their experience in a show of zeal, merely to be seen of men, their God is themselves, their own honour, and the esteem of men. It is themselves whom they love and honour in every thing, and not God.

This sermon was titled The Importance and Difficulty of the Ministerial Function -Office- in the collected works of Scougal 1650-1678 The author of The Life of God in the Soul of Man.

Cases of Conscience - Book 2 - Case 7 How may a person distinguish between the genuine consolations of the Gospel, wrought in the heart by the Spirit of God, and those comforts that spring from our own imagination or a delusive spirit- AN important query indeed- a query that ought to be well weighed, in this age of carnal security on the one hand, and fatal delusion on the other. - 1755