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The Author has reason to be grateful for the favourable notice of his work in some of the Perio- dical Publications ; it has , however , been censured by one or two , as taking a too exclusive and bigoted view of the importance of ...
The Author has reason to be grateful for the favourable notice of his work in some of the Perio- dical Publications ; it has , however , been censured by one or two , as taking a too exclusive and bigoted view of the importance of ...
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If it be only as we regard the word that we have reason to hope that we are disciples of Christ , and going to dwell with him for ever , how infinitely needful to hear that word ! THE CONTINUED MINISTRY OF THE WORD FROM THE BEGINNING OF ...
If it be only as we regard the word that we have reason to hope that we are disciples of Christ , and going to dwell with him for ever , how infinitely needful to hear that word ! THE CONTINUED MINISTRY OF THE WORD FROM THE BEGINNING OF ...
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There is good reason to believe that our Lord delivered to different congrega- tions several of his discourses over again . These obser- vations are not intended as an excuse for indolence in the minister , but as a guard against ...
There is good reason to believe that our Lord delivered to different congrega- tions several of his discourses over again . These obser- vations are not intended as an excuse for indolence in the minister , but as a guard against ...
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For this reason you ought to attend , because they are the same , because we bring nothing strange or new to your ears . " O , in the great day of account , how glad would the now - neglectful hearer be , could he but once more have the ...
For this reason you ought to attend , because they are the same , because we bring nothing strange or new to your ears . " O , in the great day of account , how glad would the now - neglectful hearer be , could he but once more have the ...
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The great reason of forgetfulness is , we want a real concern about our salvation ! The poor sometimes say , WE HAVE NOT SUITABLE CLOTHING ! Why should that more prevent you going to hear , than it does going to visit your friends ...
The great reason of forgetfulness is , we want a real concern about our salvation ! The poor sometimes say , WE HAVE NOT SUITABLE CLOTHING ! Why should that more prevent you going to hear , than it does going to visit your friends ...
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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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