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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 LVII. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN METHOD OF EDUCATING THE CHILDREN BOTH OF THE RICH AND THE POOR.' Acts xiii. 48. AS MANY AS WERE ORDAJNED TO that is, DISPOSED or PREPARED FOR] INTERNAL LIFF, BELIEVED. THE Charity Schools being designed to give the Children of t/ie Poor not merely an orderly education, though that itself is a mighty blessing both to them and to the public; but more especially a Christian education, whereby they may become happy to all eternity; I cannot think of a more proper subject for this solemn meeting, than this I have made choice of; which intimates to us, that there are certain dispositions necessary to qualify men for receiving and believing the gospel to any saving purposes. As many as were ordained to, or prepared for, eternal life, believed. Having made this out, we shall then proceed to enquire, 1st. What these dispositions are? 2dly. What manner of education is most proper to imprint them in the minds of those to whom the gospel is proposed ? In order, in the first place, to prevent them from making shipwreck of the faith which they have once received; and, secondly, to oblige them to live according to the precepts of the gospel which they have embraced, Preached in the year 1724, before the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge But I must first observe to you, that this text has been sometimes made use of to favour an opinion, which, if true, would render all education, with regard to another world, entirely useless. The words ordained to eternal life having been understood to mean, that such as did not believe the gospel to saving purposes, it was not their own fault; they were not ordained to it, nor to that eternal life to which a true faith in Jesus Christ entitles his servants; that they were never effec...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217870597 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217870597 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 196 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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