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The whole of the sacred Scrip- tures is now in our possession and exalted as the publicly acknowledged Code of faith and duty . The Apostle's statement - God who at sundry times and in divers nanners spake in times past unto the Fathers ...
The whole of the sacred Scrip- tures is now in our possession and exalted as the publicly acknowledged Code of faith and duty . The Apostle's statement - God who at sundry times and in divers nanners spake in times past unto the Fathers ...
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... there is faith , the Spirit of God , and there are also good works of necessity , wheresoever occasion is given . ... traditions , imaginations , inventions , ceremonies , and superstition , there is no faith , and consequently no ...
... there is faith , the Spirit of God , and there are also good works of necessity , wheresoever occasion is given . ... traditions , imaginations , inventions , ceremonies , and superstition , there is no faith , and consequently no ...
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Hearing is then God's appointment ; it is his special ordinance for com- municating faith , and all its blessed results . Its effect depends not on the perfection or imperfection , the mean- ness or dignity , the degree , or gift of ...
Hearing is then God's appointment ; it is his special ordinance for com- municating faith , and all its blessed results . Its effect depends not on the perfection or imperfection , the mean- ness or dignity , the degree , or gift of ...
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Preaching as a constituted means of grace can alone prosper : the benefit depends not on the minister , but on God's blessing on the means , and on that faith in the hearer which applies the word in power ; for the word preached did not ...
Preaching as a constituted means of grace can alone prosper : the benefit depends not on the minister , but on God's blessing on the means , and on that faith in the hearer which applies the word in power ; for the word preached did not ...
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Hearing the word aright then , is one of those means appointed by a heavenly Father , in infinite mercy , in the due use of which he will communicate to us the gifts of wisdom , faith , repentance , and all those graces which mark a ...
Hearing the word aright then , is one of those means appointed by a heavenly Father , in infinite mercy , in the due use of which he will communicate to us the gifts of wisdom , faith , repentance , and all those graces which mark a ...
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Page 169 - And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily, I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Page 97 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise...
Page 41 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 123 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 97 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you ; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 16 - Then said he unto them. Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 107 - Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Page 159 - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 123 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 81 - He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart : that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them; These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
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| Pealkiri | The Christian Hearer: Designed to Shew the Importance of Hearing the Word, and to Assist Christians in Hearing with Profit |
| Autor | Edward Bickersteth |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | L.B. Seeley and Son, 1826 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 mär. 2006 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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