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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... received in hearing , the only Source of genuine Profit . THERE are those who attend public worship , and hear in the ... receive . And there are , again , those evidently fed , and nourished , and blessed by the sermons which they hear ...
... received in hearing , the only Source of genuine Profit . THERE are those who attend public worship , and hear in the ... receive . And there are , again , those evidently fed , and nourished , and blessed by the sermons which they hear ...
Page 80
... receive it gladly , and improve it largely , are the very persons who reject it . The Bible explains the cause of this apparent auo- maly . All , by nature , are averse to divine truth , aud would reject it ; and various motives ...
... receive it gladly , and improve it largely , are the very persons who reject it . The Bible explains the cause of this apparent auo- maly . All , by nature , are averse to divine truth , aud would reject it ; and various motives ...
Page 95
... receive the Gospel , we retain it , and are edified by those very truths which at a former season made no impression at all . The principles which we have maintained from the Holy Scriptures explain all this . In one case it pleases God ...
... receive the Gospel , we retain it , and are edified by those very truths which at a former season made no impression at all . The principles which we have maintained from the Holy Scriptures explain all this . In one case it pleases God ...
Page 96
... receive at any time , of unmerited mercy ; and at another time , in boundless mercy and undeserved love , he worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure . The variety which we may observe among real Chris- tians springs ...
... receive at any time , of unmerited mercy ; and at another time , in boundless mercy and undeserved love , he worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure . The variety which we may observe among real Chris- tians springs ...
Page 97
... receive a sentence to endless misery , would refuse or despise the offers of reconciliation . ' " " Should any go so far as to ridicule all expectations of divine grace as foily or enthusiasm , let them remem- ber , that they do in fact ...
... receive a sentence to endless misery , would refuse or despise the offers of reconciliation . ' " " Should any go so far as to ridicule all expectations of divine grace as foily or enthusiasm , let them remem- ber , that they do in fact ...
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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.