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Answers to Objections against Practical Obedience , 6. The relative Situation and respective Duties of Ministers and People , 7. Directions for Hearing the Word , 105 146 8. The Importance of reflecting on what we have heard , 176 9.
Answers to Objections against Practical Obedience , 6. The relative Situation and respective Duties of Ministers and People , 7. Directions for Hearing the Word , 105 146 8. The Importance of reflecting on what we have heard , 176 9.
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... not expect to remedy , on a large scale , the evil which he , in common with many , deplores : but if he can afford a little help , and stir up a few only to individual and practical reformation , it will be worth all his efforts .
... not expect to remedy , on a large scale , the evil which he , in common with many , deplores : but if he can afford a little help , and stir up a few only to individual and practical reformation , it will be worth all his efforts .
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... with the consequent extensive distress which came upon our country in the close of 1825 , and the beginning of 1826 , do not materially affect the general view above given , and suggest important practical lessons .
... with the consequent extensive distress which came upon our country in the close of 1825 , and the beginning of 1826 , do not materially affect the general view above given , and suggest important practical lessons .
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This subject is of great practical importance . We may learn from it one of the most valuable means of benefiting our fellow - creatures . Here is the moral lever which removes the load that oppresses the world .
This subject is of great practical importance . We may learn from it one of the most valuable means of benefiting our fellow - creatures . Here is the moral lever which removes the load that oppresses the world .
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He dis- cerus not its practical tendency . He shrinks from the real cross . He marks not the corresponding obliga- tions to take up our cross , deny ourselves , and follow Christ . He cannot really enter into the force of the Apostle's ...
He dis- cerus not its practical tendency . He shrinks from the real cross . He marks not the corresponding obliga- tions to take up our cross , deny ourselves , and follow Christ . He cannot really enter into the force of the Apostle's ...
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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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