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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. John vi. 58. Thu is the bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of thit bread shall live for ever. I Mentioned in my last sermon, that there were three ordinary means of acquiring that faith which, is so necessary to us, and of which we all of us have too little a portion. These three means were, reading the Scriptures, prayer, and the partaking of the Lord's supper. Of the first of these I spoke last Sunday. I mentioned how, by reading the story of Christ's life and death in particular, we should bring the thought of him home to our minds as something of a reality; and, when we had learnt to fancy and to love him as he was on earth, that then it was a comfort to think, that such as he had been on earth, such he now is at the right hand of God, with almighty power and infinite love; and I earnestly recommended the making ourselves familiar with the words and deeds of Christ, as a first and most important steptowards believing in him and loving him. Still it is but too certain, by every day's experience, that the reading of the Scriptures of itself is not sufficient; that although faith may come at first by reading, yet it needs something else to sustain it; in short, that it is very possible to know the Scriptures thoroughly, and yet not to have that faith which overcometh the world. Nay, I may go further: it is possible not only to know the Scriptures, but heartily to admire them; not only to be familiar with Christ's words and actions, but to feel a great delight in and love for them; and yet still not to have that saving, that victorious faith, of which St. John speaks in the words of my last Sunday's text. We cannot doubt Peter's familiar knowledge of his Lord, nor yet his lively recollection o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217869508 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217869505 |
| Weight | 0.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 208 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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