The Christian Hearer: Designed to Shew the Importance of Hearing the Word, and to Assist Christians in Hearing with ProfitL.B. Seeley and Son, 1826 - 320 pages |
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... light athwart the dark valley of the shadow of death , and discovers to us sinners , a free and complete salvation ; the Almighty , our Friend ; his only - begotten Son , our Redeemer ; his Blessed Spirit , our Teacher and Com- forter ...
... light athwart the dark valley of the shadow of death , and discovers to us sinners , a free and complete salvation ; the Almighty , our Friend ; his only - begotten Son , our Redeemer ; his Blessed Spirit , our Teacher and Com- forter ...
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... light and truth , the gracious promises and blessed prospects , which it discovers . But we Christians have superior advantages which bring a higher responsibility ; our neglect of them is * It has been observed , " Without this hearing ...
... light and truth , the gracious promises and blessed prospects , which it discovers . But we Christians have superior advantages which bring a higher responsibility ; our neglect of them is * It has been observed , " Without this hearing ...
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... light which shines so clearly , and close their ears to the truth which sounds so distinctly . Unto whomsoever much is given , of him shall be much required . Luke xii , 48. Is it not important therefore for us to hear ? O , let us ...
... light which shines so clearly , and close their ears to the truth which sounds so distinctly . Unto whomsoever much is given , of him shall be much required . Luke xii , 48. Is it not important therefore for us to hear ? O , let us ...
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... better than folly , or altogether despised as fool- ishness , exalted as the rule of final judgment , and that which decides their never - ending condition ! The importance of hearing may be put into another light 14.
... better than folly , or altogether despised as fool- ishness , exalted as the rule of final judgment , and that which decides their never - ending condition ! The importance of hearing may be put into another light 14.
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... light , by considering the weakness of those objections which are sometimes brought against this duty . Thus it is often said , I CAN READ AND LEARN AT HOME : I have good books in my library , and there are better published sermons than ...
... light , by considering the weakness of those objections which are sometimes brought against this duty . Thus it is often said , I CAN READ AND LEARN AT HOME : I have good books in my library , and there are better published sermons than ...
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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.