J. C. Philpot

J. C. Philpot
(1802-1869)

Deeply soul-humbling,
richly Christ-exalting,
experimental teaching.

"My desire is to exalt the grace of God; to proclaim salvationalone through Jesus Christ; to declare the sinfulness, helplessness and  hopelessness of man in a state of nature; to describe the living experience of the children of God in their trials, temptations, sorrows, consolations and blessings."

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PRIDE 

The Master's Bounty, and the Servant's Obedience 

The Mighty Watcher, and His Twofold Work 

The Fool—His Character, Affliction, and Deliverance 

Spiritual Times and Seasons 

Getting and Losing 

Balm in Gilead

The Wilderness Wanderer 

The Houseless Wanderer 

Life Given for a Prey 

Not Our Own—Bought with a Price 

Coming up from the Wilderness 

Spiritual Paradoxes 

Zion's Blessings 

The Spiritual Chase 

Heavenly Buying 

The Sweet Loathed and the Bitter Relished 

The Fruits and Marks of the Lord Being Our God 

The Knowledge of Good and Evil 

Light Affliction and Eternal Glory 

Israel's Departure and Return 

The Walk in the Fields and among the Vineyards 

Super-aboundings of Grace over the Aboundings of Sin 

Reconciliation and Salvation 

The Refuge For The Oppressed 

A Discriminating Ministry 

Living Complaints 

The Valley of Achor 

The Blessedness of Trusting in the Lord 

The Lost Sheep Restored 

The Good Shepherd and His Work 

The Only Safe Protection, and the Only Sure Refuge 

The Sin Sick Soul And The Great Physician 

The Sick Man's Prayer and the Sinner's Cry 

The History of an IDOL, its Rise, Reign and Progress 

The Threefold Overthrow of Self 

The Profane, Wicked Prince Overturned;  and the Rightful King Set Up 

Love in its Priceless Value and Unquenchable Strength 

The Day of Power 

The Word of God's Grace 

The Eagle and Her Young 

The Lost Sought and Saved 

The Straying Sheep and the Sin-bearing Shepherd 

The Unction of the Holy One 

The Abiding Comforter 

Heavenly Teaching 

Pleasant Plants and Desperate Sorrow 

Mans Devices and the Lord's Counsel 

The Sacrifice Bound to the Horns of the Altar 

Crucifixion with Christ 

The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax 

Trying the Spirits 

Pilgrims' Hunger and Pilgrims' Food 

The Love of the World and the Love of God 

The Gospel Seed-bed 

Power Given to the Faint 

The Cry of Jonah out of the Belly of Hell 

The Blessedness of Divine Chastening 

The Bitter Waters Sweetened 

The Valley of Baca 

The Afflicted Remnant and Their Confiding Trust 

Patience and Her Perfect Work 

Reconciliation by Death, and Salvation by Life 

Letter of resignation from the Church of England 

On the Law and the Gospel 

The Law of Moses 

The Saint's Path to Eternal Glory 

The Loss of All Things for Christ's Sake 

The Reproach Answered 

The Farewell 

The Solemn Appeal And Earnest Cry Of A Waiting Soul 

Alienation and Reconciliation 

Spiritual Convictions & Heavenly Affections 

Life Given for a Prey 

The Lord’s Merciful Look Upon His People 

Israel's Happiness 

The Wilderness and its Fruits 

Prevailing Pleas, or the Hope and Savior of Israel 

The Life of Christ Manifested in the Death of the Creature 

The Love of Christ in Giving Himself for the Church 

The Mountain Made a Plain 

The Triumphs of Mercy 

The Whole Armor of God 

A Spiritual Death and a Hidden Life 

Lawful Strife 

Heavenly Gifts to Victorious Saints 

Divine Enlargement and Spiritual Obedience 

A Supply for Every Need 

A Believer’s Dialogue with His Soul 

What Is It That Saves a Soul? 

The Soul's Growth in Grace 

Spiritual Delight, and Confiding Trust 

The Conqueror's Inheritance 

Abounding of Love in Knowledge and Experience 

The Savior of Israel 

The Subjection of All Things Under the Feet of Jesus 

The Trees of the Field, and Their Appointed Destiny 

The Possession and Dispossession of the Strong Man Armed 

A Compassionate High Priest and a Throne of Grace 

Confiding Trust and Patient Submission 

The Veil Taken Away 

Spiritual Fruit 

The Sieve and its Effects 

The Heavenly Birth and its Earthly Counterfeits 

The Secret of the Lord 

The Lord's Thoughts 

The Everliving Intercessor 

Moab at Ease from His Youth and Settled on His Lees 

The Inward Conflict Between the Flesh and the Spirit 

A Peculiar People 

The Only Safe Keeping 

The Furnace and its Fruits 

Treasures of Darkness 

The Falling Rain and the Budding Earth 

The Groaning Captive's Deliverance 

God the Great Teacher and Leader of His People 

The Fruit of the Lips 

Spiritual Sickness and Health 

Walking in the Spirit 

The Old Man Put Off, The New Man Put On

The Prayer of Jabez 

The Spiritual Conflict 

Obedience from the Heart

The Well and the Wall 

Blessings Imputed, and Mercies Imparted 

Acceptable Present to the Lord of Hosts 

The Battle Is the Lord's 

The Heir of Heaven Walking in Darkness, and the Heir of Hell Walking in Light 

The Better Things Which Accompany Salvation 

Genuine Discipleship 

Spiritual Poverty and Heavenly Riches 

Peace, Tribulation, Victory 

Following on to Know the Lord 

Signs Seen, and Not Seen 

The Breaker 

The Living Sacrifice Presented 

The Blowing of the Great Trumpet 

The Blowing of the Gospel Trumpet 

The Golden Chain of Tribulation and Love 

Gracious Attractions and Heavenly Banquetings 

The Thorn in the Flesh, or Strength Made Perfect in Weakness 

Prayer, and its Answer 

Prayer, and its Answer 

The Lord's Invitation to the Ends of the Earth 

The Things Which God has Prepared for Those Who Love Him 

Man's Misery and God's Mercy 

The Hope of the Cast-down Soul 

The Northern Iron and the Steel 

The Power and the Form 

Joy and Gladness for Mourning Souls 

The Word of Men and the Word of God 

The Death of the Flesh the Life of the Spirit 

The Rising Of The Day Star 

Growing up into Christ in All Things 

The Trial by Fire of Every Man's Work 

The Working of All Things Together for Good 

The Seed of Israel, Justified in Christ 

The Vine and its Branches 

Steps of Thankful Praise 

The Promise of God to His Afflicted Church 

The Eternal God the Refuge of His Saints 

A Confessing Sinner, and a Forgiving God 

The Valley Exalted, and the Mountain Laid Low 

The Destruction through Death of Him Who Had the Power of Death 

A Peculiar People 

Pastoral Counsels 

Zion's Waymarks 

The Narrow Way 

The Doctrine which Drops as the Rain, and the Speech which Distills as the Dew 

The Spirit of Power, of Love, and of a Sound Mind 

Deliverance from the Power of Darkness 

Spiritual Mysteries 

A Longing Soul in a Thirsty Land 

Grace Superabounding over the Aboundings of Sin 

The Fruits of Sin and the Fruits of Holiness 

Sin Condemned and Righteousness Fulfilled 

Waters Which do not Drown and Flames which do not Burn 

The Sentence of Death in Ourselves 

The Sons of God—Their Blessings and Their Privileges 

An Anxious Inquiry and a Gracious Response 

The Clean Water Sprinkled and the New Heart Given 

Heavenly Attraction and Spiritual Obedience 

The Exercise and Profit of Godliness 

Faith's Standing-Ground 

True Discipleship 

The Work of Faith, Patience of Hope, and Labor of Love 

The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God 

Filth and Blood Purged by the Spirit of Judgment and the Spirit of Burning

The Soul's Pursuit After God 

The Hope of the Hypocrite 

The Promises Inherited 

Four Links in the Chain of Grace 

Christ Jesus the Lord Received and Walked In 

Plenteous Redemption 

Wilderness Hunger and Heavenly Manna 

The Wine of Astonishment 

The Appeal and Prayer of a Waiting Soul 

Gospel Fruit the Test of Genuine Discipleship 

Abiding in Christ 

The Salted Sacrifice 

The Fiery Trial 

"Man's religion is to build up the creature.
God's religion is to throw the creature down in
the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ."

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32

DAILY WORDS FOR ZION'S WAYFARERSor, THROUGH BACA'S VALLEY

Selected from the works of J. C. Philpot by his daughters, 1893
"Blessed are those whose strength is in You, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, ("weeping") they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion." Psalm 84:5-7

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32


"The earth, from which food comes,
is transformed below as by fire;
sapphires come from its rocks,
and its dust contains nuggets of gold.

No bird of prey knows that hidden path,
no vulture's eye has seen it.
Proud beasts do not set foot on it,
and no lion prowls there." Job 28:5-8

The truths of the gospel, though to an enlightened eye they shine as with a ray of light all through the word, yet are they, for the most part, laid up as in deep veins--"Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place where gold is refined." "The earth, from which food comes, is transformed below as by fire; sapphires come from its rocks, and its dust contains nuggets of gold." (Job 28:5-6).

But where is "the place of sapphires?" and where these "nuggets of gold?" "In the path which no bird of prey," no unclean professor, "knows, and which the vulture's eye," keen though it be after this world's carrion, "has not seen."

But to a spiritual mind sweet and self-rewarding is the task, if task it can be called, of searching the word as for hidden treasure. No sweeter, no better employment can engage heart and hands than, in the spirit of prayer and meditation, of separation from the world, of holy fear, of a desire to know the will of God and do it, of humility, simplicity, and godly sincerity, to seek to enter into those heavenly mysteries which are stored up in the Scriptures; and this, not to furnish the head with notions, but to feed the soul with the bread of life.

Truth, received in the love and power of it, informs and establishes the judgment, softens and melts the heart, warms and draws upward the affections, makes and keeps the conscience alive and tender, is the food of faith, the strength of hope, and the mainspring of love.

To know the truth is to be "a disciple indeed," and to be made blessedly free; free from error, and the vile heresies which everywhere abound; free from presumption and self-righteousness; free from the curse and bondage of the law and the condemnation of a guilty conscience; free from a slavish fear of the opinion of men and the contempt and scorn of the world and worldly professors; free from following a multitude to do evil; free from companionship with those who have a name to live but are dead. 

But free to love the Lord and his dear people; free to speak well of his name; free to glorify him with our body and soul, which are his; free to a throne of grace and to a blood-besprinkled mercy-seat; free to every good word and work; free to "whatever things are good, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report."

A time to kill, and a time to heal." Ecclesiastes 3:3

J. C. Philpot


DAILY WORDS FOR ZION'S WAYFARERS

or, THROUGH BACA'S VALLEY
 
Selected from the works of J. C. Philpot by his daughters, 1893

"Blessed are those whose strength is in You,
 who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, ("weeping")
 they make it a place of springs;
 the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
 They go from strength to strength,
 until each appears before God in Zion."
       Psalm 84:5-7

"A time to kill, and a time to heal." Ecclesiastes 3:3

All through the Christian's life there will be "a time to kill, and a time to heal." We sometimes read in books, and hear in conversation, an experience of this kind--a work of grace commencing with very powerful convictions of sin, and the soul brought almost to the very brink of hell, and then a wonderful revelation of Jesus Christ, a powerful application of his atoning blood to the conscience, and a blessed manifestation of God's love to the soul. And then what follows? They possess an unwavering assurance during the remainder of their sojourn upon earth. Sin and Satan never distress nor wound them; the flesh lies calm and tranquil, like the summer sea, never lashed up by angry gusts into a storm of fretfulness and rebellion; the sea birds of doubt and fear never flit with screams around them, as harbingers of a tempest, but the gale of divine favor gently fills their sail, and wafts them along until they reach the harbor of endless rest.

Is this consistent with the Scriptures of truth? Does not the word of God set forth the path of a Christian as one of trial and temptation? Can a living soul pass through many scenes without ever being killed experimentally in his feelings as one of "the flock of slaughter?" Does not a chequered experience run through the whole of a Christian's life? Does the Scripture ever afford us the least warrant to believe that a man can be walking in the footsteps of a tempted, suffering Lord, who continues for months and years together at ease in Zion, without any trouble, exercise, grief, or distress in his soul? 

David never was there. Jeremiah never was there. Paul never was there. Heman never was there. Asaph never was there. You will find that no saints of God, whose experience is left on record in the Bible, ever were there; but their path was one of change and vicissitude; sometimes down, sometimes up, sometimes mourning, sometimes rejoicing, but never long together in one unvaried spot.

The Spirit of the Lord, in carrying on this grand work in the hearts of God's people, will be continually operating in two distinct ways upon their souls. Jeremiah was a prophet of the Lord, and he was "set over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down"--thus ran one part of his commission "to build and to plant"--that was the second part of his office. 

These two distinct operations were to run through the whole of his mission; they were "the burden of the Lord," laid upon him at his first call to the prophetical office, and they continued during the whole of his ministry, a space of more than forty years. 

Did he, then, merely on one occasion pull down, and on one occasion build up? Was not the whole of his ministration, as evidenced in the prophecies that are contained in the book that bears his name, a continual pulling down with one hand, and building up with the other? 

So is it then with the ministry of the Spirit of the Lord in a vessel of mercy. He is continually killing, continually healing, continually casting down, continually raising up, now laying the soul low in the dust of self-abasement, and now building it up sweetly in Christ.