Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded

Writings by J. G. Bellett As to the duration of Messiah's kingdom, those words in Psalm 72, "His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun," — I think the Spirit defines here how long His kingdom will continue, "as long as the sun,." that is, till the heaven and earth shall pass away, and God will be all in all. We are here, beloved, to help one another's joy in th...

Bible, Art, and History Museums. HBU, a Higher Education, is now Houston Christian Univesity. This paper was taken from the following URL. https://hbu.edu/museums/dunham-bible-museum/tour-of-the-museum/past-exhibits/biblical-manuscripts/

At our Bible Study yesterday, Nov. 9th, 2022, the question came up about old manuscripts of the Bible. The Institute for Creation Research has an article on the Internet that sheds light on this subject. This is that article.

Writings by J. G. Bellett Nothing that can glorify Him in the full display of Himself is left unrevealed there. The display of God in creation was necessarily partial, but in the mystery of Jesus, the Child of Bethlehem, it is perfect and complete.   https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/685

Writings by J. G. Bellett I should like with you to look at the Book of Nehemiah, as illustrating formalism, socialism, and divine holiness. We are now called "Exclusives." If this title belongs to us, it belongs to the apostle who tells us to act upon the principle which has given us the title.  https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/700

Writings by J. G. Bellett We are to maintain those truths or mysteries which the tabernacle and its furniture represented: and the Apostle commits our entrance into Canaan to that. "If ye continue in the faith;" and again, "if ye keep in memory what I have written unto you." Our safety, our rest in the heavenly Canaan, depends on our keeping the truth.  https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/69...

Writings by J. G. Bellett In the midst of the increased and still growing corruption of the whole scene around us, and of the threatened dissolving of all things, it is much laid upon the mind to consider with simplicity and clearness the character of our calling. The call of God out of the earth, and God's assertion of title to the earth, are things that greatly differ, and should be morally and...

Writings by J. G. Bellett Look at Saul. He was full of religious zeal-the zeal of an inquisitor. Look at Cornelius. He was full of religious devotion-gentle, benevolent, disposed (instead of persecuting others) to judge that all others were better than himself. Here were different materials, and the mode of operation on them was different. The work was carried on in Saul's soul with characteristic...

Writings by J. G. Bellett The Lord found a state of sad and humbling and various confusion in the land that He walked through day by day. But it only gave occasion to His path to shine the brighter — for it was light and only light undimmed by the darkness, and unbroken by the confusion, that was all around. https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/697

Writings by J. G. Bellett from Musings on Scripture, Volume 2. Thus as Moses had access to all God's house and was spoken to "face to face," so the Son is in the fullest and deepest intimacies with all of God, His glory, His person, His counsels, and ways, and works at all times and in all places. https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/691

Writings by J. G. Bellett from Musings on Scripture, Volume 2. The command to the nation of Israel at the very beginning was to keep the way of the Lord very particularly as to marriage. They were by no means either to give their daughters to the sons of the Canaanites, or take the Canaanites’ daughters of their sons. "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give u...

In this short podcast, I read out of the book of Ephesians chapter 1 and give a short talk.

Writings by J. G. Bellett from Musings on Scripture, Volume 2. While Jeremiah was left at Jerusalem to witness the course of moral corruption there and to warn of coming judgment, and while Ezekiel was among the remnant in the place of discipline or of righteousness on the river Chebar, Daniel is set among the Gentiles, even at Babylon, to learn the history and the ways of the Gentiles, or the wor...

Writings by J. G. Bellett Revelation 17, 18. from Musings on Scripture, Volume 1. Babylon of old was very bold in her defiance of the grief of Zion. She made the captives of Zion to contribute to her greatness and her enjoyments. Nebuchadnezzar had done this with the captive youths, and Belshazzar with the captive vessels. This was Babylon, and in spirit this is Christendom. Christendom is the thi...

Writings by J. G. Bellett Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly…but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither. (Psalm 1:1-3) https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/384

Writings by J. G. Bellett Notes of an Address on the First Epistle of Peter By J. G. B. Aug., 1851. (extracted from The Northern Witness, 1880) There are three things in this epistle: 1st, the apostle contemplates the saint in times of various troubles; 2ndly, the mind with which the trouble should be passed through; and 3rdly, the consolations which God provides for such a time. There is nothing...

We had our first Scripture Reading Meeting Monday, November 7th. The reading and subject was Romans Chapter 1

David is the principal object before the mind of the Spirit of God in both the 1st and the 2nd books of Samuel. In the 1st book we see him brought from obscurity into honour and praise, and there standing, by the good hand of God, in full righteousness amid the persecutions of the wicked. In the 2nd we see him descending from honour, through sin, into degradation and ruin, but there learning the r...

by J. G. Bellett Short paper. https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/689

by J. G. Bellett (The date of this letter is not known — probably it was 1865: it was found among the papers of the brother who received it after his departure to be with Christ. The annexed lines were written by the bereaved parent.) https://plymouthbrethren.org/article/684

To more than one friend he said that he had had “two surprises”: “If my body has been surprised into sickness, my spirit has been surprised into liberty.” “Speaking of our blessed Lord’s humiliation, he said: ‘I worship Him as the Carpenter’s Son as thoroughly as I shall do as King of Kings by-and-bye.’ He uttered fervent words of adoration, praising the Lord for what He had given him in Himself,...

I cannot tell exactly when it was that our kind friend, Dr. Walter, began to feel my dear father’s illness was becoming serious. In its early stages it took the form of pneumonia; and he was never quite free from cough; but there was more general weakness than any distinct disease. From the beginning of the summer, Dr. W. was in constant attendance, and full of the kindest consideration. Dr. Law a...

My father wrote a short pamphlet at this time, entitled, “A few words on the Present Revival” some paragraphs of which I quote here. In it he refers to the “physical effects” which in some cases attended this remarkable movement. “That sudden or strong affections of the mind have had wonderful effects on the body must have been the observation of every age, so that we need not speak of it. “But th...

The following letter is addressed to this niece: “My dear Annie,—Some few nights before you left us I had a dream. I thought that I was living in the day when the incarnation was expected, and one day, as I walked in the village where I was living, the report reached us that it had taken place. I then thought that another report reached us, that the Lord was coming into our village. Accordingly I...

Although he never wished to be considered chief, or in a place of authority amongst the Brethren, yet they loved to give him such a place; and Sunday after Sunday, as I have said before, he preached in the evening, and usually took part in the morning meeting. Perhaps the word preaching scarcely conveys the true description of his ministry. It was rather an unfolding of Holy Scripture in a way pec...