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It may be desirable to add a few remarks on different parts of the work now submitted to the reader . Names of distinction among Christians have been , as much as practicable , avoided . When brought forward to support or oppose classes ...
It may be desirable to add a few remarks on different parts of the work now submitted to the reader . Names of distinction among Christians have been , as much as practicable , avoided . When brought forward to support or oppose classes ...
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... feel called upon to enter more fully into topics , to do justice to which would require another volume , and the various bearings of which call for a large spirit of Christian wisdom and charity , both in the author and the reader .
... feel called upon to enter more fully into topics , to do justice to which would require another volume , and the various bearings of which call for a large spirit of Christian wisdom and charity , both in the author and the reader .
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Consider then , Christian reader , that God speaks to men by his ministers . The ministry of the word is a Bishop Jewell observes , " Some there are that thus say , O that I might hear Christ , or Peter , or Paul !
Consider then , Christian reader , that God speaks to men by his ministers . The ministry of the word is a Bishop Jewell observes , " Some there are that thus say , O that I might hear Christ , or Peter , or Paul !
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Rather , Christian Reader , let the infinite condescen- sion and compassion of God , in stooping to our weak- ness and infirmities by a human and weak messenger , so far from suggesting any excuse for slighting the message , add a fresh ...
Rather , Christian Reader , let the infinite condescen- sion and compassion of God , in stooping to our weak- ness and infirmities by a human and weak messenger , so far from suggesting any excuse for slighting the message , add a fresh ...
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... when the Reader has done , he who presides , gives an admonition , instructing the people , and animating them to the practice of such lovely precepts ; at the conclusion of this discourse , we all rise up together and pray .
... when the Reader has done , he who presides , gives an admonition , instructing the people , and animating them to the practice of such lovely precepts ; at the conclusion of this discourse , we all rise up together and pray .
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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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