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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... neglect that duty ; and how very few , even of habitual hearers , fully improve what they hear to their spiritual edification . There is among multitudes both of rich and poor in this Country , through their wilful neglect , nearly as ...
... neglect that duty ; and how very few , even of habitual hearers , fully improve what they hear to their spiritual edification . There is among multitudes both of rich and poor in this Country , through their wilful neglect , nearly as ...
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... neglect of them is * It has been observed , " Without this hearing , we see the power of religion lost , and the awe of God wear off the spirits of men , as appears in the atheism of Popish countries , where hearing the word is in a ...
... neglect of them is * It has been observed , " Without this hearing , we see the power of religion lost , and the awe of God wear off the spirits of men , as appears in the atheism of Popish countries , where hearing the word is in a ...
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... neglect of preaching crept into the church by degrees , spread more and more generally , and marked its declining circumstances . Sozomen relates of the church of Rome in his time , ( the fifth century , ) that they had no sermons ...
... neglect of preaching crept into the church by degrees , spread more and more generally , and marked its declining circumstances . Sozomen relates of the church of Rome in his time , ( the fifth century , ) that they had no sermons ...
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... neglect of preaching by the whole ecclesiastical order , in that than in any former age . In the reign of Edward I. as Bishop Stillingfleet observes , " The office of preaching was sunk so low , that , in a Provin- cial Constitution at ...
... neglect of preaching by the whole ecclesiastical order , in that than in any former age . In the reign of Edward I. as Bishop Stillingfleet observes , " The office of preaching was sunk so low , that , in a Provin- cial Constitution at ...
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... neglect of what we have , will account for it all . Yet we judge of the state of a country in some measure by contrasting it with other countries , and God bestows national benefits in connec- tion with ordinary means ; and the ...
... neglect of what we have , will account for it all . Yet we judge of the state of a country in some measure by contrasting it with other countries , and God bestows national benefits in connec- tion with ordinary means ; and the ...
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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.