Second: Then the Samaritan must come, that is, Christ Jesus. He brings along medicine, namely, wine and oil, which he pours into the wounds of the sinner. Wine: he leads the person to repentance so that he is sorry for his sins. He brings oil, by which he softens his pain and drives it away, and says, "Believe the gospel that clearly shows that I am your physician who has come into this world to make the sinner just and righteous. The gospel teaches also that I am the only gi

Carey had been baptized and brought up in the Church of England, as had Clarke Nichols; but his other apprentice, a lad named John Warr, came from a Dissenting family. During long hours in the workshop, conversation among the three of them often turned to matters religious. As parish clerk, Edmund Carey had required his children to attend church where they listened to the Psalms and lessons from the Book of Common Prayer. Although Carey never disparaged this religious trainin

Custer prayed, “inwardly, devoutly,” as he had informed Libbie in a letter five days earlier. “Never have I failed to command myself to God’s keeping,” he wrote, “asking Him to forgive my past sins, and to watch over me while in danger . . . and to receive me if I fell . . . After having done so all anxiety for myself, here or hereafter, is dispelled. I feel that my destiny is in the hands of the Almighty. This belief, more than any other fact or reason, makes me brave and fe

III.3 A. Said Rabbi Eleazar bar Abina, “Whoever says the Psalm, ‘Praise of David’ (Ps. 145) three times a day may be assured that he belongs to the world to come.”