The Importance of Doctrinal and Instructive Preaching

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Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1839 - 36 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 31 - Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Pàgina 32 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Pàgina 5 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Pàgina 29 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also **. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Pàgina 30 - God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty...
Pàgina 19 - Dean at the least, do from henceforth presume to preach in any popular auditory the deep points of predestination, election, reprobation, or of the universality, efficacy, resistibility or irresistibility, of God's grace; but leave those themes...
Pàgina 31 - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me...
Pàgina 22 - And here, I desired that out of any clause in the declaration, it might be showed me, that keeping myself within the bounds of the article, I had transgressed his majesty's command. But the declaration was not produced, nor any particular words in it. Only this was urged, that the king's will was, that for the peace of the church, these high questions should be forborne.
Pàgina 25 - The truth I fear is, that many, if not most of us, have dwelt too little on these doctrines in our sermons: — partly from not having studied theology deeply enough to treat of them ably and 'beneficially: God grant it may never have been for want of inwardly experiencing their importance. But whatever be the cause, the effect has been lamentable.
Pàgina 7 - ... manifest, and give glory to God. In 'the use of instruction or information in the knowledge of some truth, which is a consequence from his doctrine, he may (when convenient) confirm it by a few firm arguments from the text in hand, and other places of scripture, or from the nature- of that common-place in divinity, whereof that truth is a branch.

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