9780217948005

The Christian Remembrancer

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ISBN13: 9780217948005

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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: Pious Harriet, fc. By the Author of the Retrotpect, ' $% Nisbet and Co. 1829. Little Ann. By the same. Nisbet. 1840. Food for Babes; or, the First Sermon that very little Children are able to understand. By the Rev. D. Barclay Bevan, H.A. Second Edition. Hatchards. 1841. Line upon Line, Sfc. By the Author of the Peep of Day. Hatclmrds. 1841. The Missionary Catechism, to help forward the Young Lambs of Chriffs Flock in understanding and promoting the Hearenly Work of Christian Missions. Second Edition. Suter. 1837. We trust that our readers remember the point to which we had brought the question of the religious development of children in our May number. We laid down the great principle on which we consider all to depend, and which, therefore, can be used at once as a test of other people's errors, and foundation whereon we can build truth ourselves. That principle is the redemption in Christ of our whole nature, and consequently of every stage through which it has' to pass from its very beginning. Infancy and childhood, therefore, have both been hallowed, and we must beware how we doubt that our children have received the Christian calling, in their place and degree, and are susceptible of Christian excellence. At the same time, we must be careful in acting upon this, to understand that calling and that degree; since in consecrating children Christ has consecrated childhood, we must accurately observe what childhood is. In attempting an investigation of childhood, we were presented with a phenomenon which we applied to certain popular narratives of religious children, and which condemned some of the favourite topics and views of such compositions. We were led to see how vain was the demand for what is meant by conversion, or for experience in children; and h...

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9780217948005

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0217948006

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2.38 Pounds

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9.00 x 6.00 x 1.46 In

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$45.29

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Paperback

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748 pages

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2009-08-01



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