Eclectic Notes: Or, Notes of Discussions on Religious Topics at the Meetings of the Eclectic Society, London. During the Years 1798-1814

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J. Nisbet and Company, 1865 - 543 pages
 

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What lessons may we learn from the dispensations of Providence?
75
What is the difference between accuracy in stating Christian Doctrine and mere
77
What is the Morality and Use of Dreams?
81
What circumstances have determined the Popularity and Unpopularity
91
What is the Obligation and the most effectual Method of administering Brotherly
104
What are the Criteria of Divine Truth and how may it be distinguished from
112
What are the characteristics cf a Spiritual Mind and what are the means
135
What is it to preach Christ and how far should circumstances regulate
141
On what grounds has a man warrant to conclude that he is in a State of Accept
147
What is the nature of the Inspiration of the Scriptures?
154
In what respects are Ministers warranted to expect Divine Influence on
164
How shall we distinguish between true and counterfeit Christian Experience?
173
How shall a Minister best preserve his people from the influence of Sectarian
180
How far is it expedient to encourage Religious Societies and what is the best
187
Which is the most profitable method of Studying the Scriptures in private
195
What is the proper test of Religious Sincerity both to ourselves and others?
201
What are the main points of instruction to be derived from the Book of Job?
208
What kind of preaching is best calculated to guard a people against Declension
214
The nature and criminality of Precipitation
221
What is the proper province of Reason in the reception of Christianity?
233
What have been the signal Interpositions of Providence in favour of Britain dur
239
The causes of not profiting under the Word preached both as it respects minis
245
How shall we detect the enmity of the human heart against God in amiable
251
What foundation is there in Scripture for the doctrine of the Millennium? of what
259
How shall we distinguish between unbelieving fears and those doubts concern
267
Will natural constitution in any degree extenuate guilt?
273
In what sense is the sin of the believer imputed to Christ and the righteousness
279
What are the Scripture Evidences of a State of Salvation?
292
What are the most important parts of the Ministerial duty?
358
The nature and extent of Filial Duty?
364
How has the Offence of the Cross been increased by Evangelical preachers?
371
How far may the Sacred Language be considered as a proper model for the phrase
377
The nature and specific effects of Union with Christ?
385
Does the Spirit of God by the Gospel operate on the minds of men in producing
392
What are the just bounds of Typical Interpretations of the Scripture?
398
May Emulation be employed as a stimulus in the Education of Children?
404
How shall Ministers best excite and direct the active services of their respective
411
What instruction may be derived from the supposed sensible Interpositions
417
Opposition to Missions in India
424
Illness and death of the Rev R Cecil
430
What is the best mode of improving a Journey?
445
The ground of expecting the conversion of the Jews and the means by which
452
What is the meaning of the Scriptural expression The presence of God?
458
What are the rules and limitations of a Christians duty to esteem others better
460
What are the distinctions between Godly Sorrow and the Sorrow of the World?
466
What influence have our sinful passions one on the other? and what use can
472
The Nature Operation and Cure of Prejudice
478
What are the limits of Scriptural Inquiry as it relates to Ministers?
485
How shall we improve the approaching Fast 1811?
491
How far are the Order and Discipline of the Christian Church connected with
493
In what way and to what extent should we insist on the work of the Holy Spirit
499
What is the Scripture doctrine of Assurance and how far should it enter into
506
What are the most likely means of recovering a Backslider?
520
What are the characteristics and consequences of an Inefficient Ministry?
526
The nature office and rights of Conscience
532
List of Members and Visitors during the period of these discussions
539

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Page 422 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 32 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 219 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 438 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Page 141 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 138 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Page 502 - The Wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of The Spirit.
Page 219 - For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.
Page 376 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 432 - This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.

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