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James Stuart M. Anderson
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The Cloud of Witnesses; Discourses on the Eleventh and Part of the Twelfth Chapters of the Epistle to the Hebrews |
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186 |
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2009-12-22 |
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1150510242 |
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General Books LLC |
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0.62 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.39 inches |
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISCOURSE II. THE DEFINITION OF FAITH. PART II. Hebrews xi. 1, 2. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. In our former Discourse upon these words, we adverted, first of all, in general terms, to the paramount importance of the subject which they involve; and then, after having briefly pointed out the distinction existing between faith and all other means and kinds of knowledge, we proceeded to point out the manner in which the consideration of this actuating principle, as it has been manifested in the hearts of different men, in different ages of the world, was connected with the argument and exhortation here addressed by the Apostle to the Hebrew Christians. The immediate end which, in this part of the Epistle, he had in view, was, as we have seen, to encourage and excite those professors of theGospel of Christ, under circumstances of severe trial and danger, to patience and steadfast perseverance in the cause of truth; and the lesson, which he enforced with reference to that end, and by the reception of which, he sought to save them from the fate of the unstable and presumptuous, " who draw back unto perdition," was that which set before them, in terms of more explicit definition than occur in any other part of the Sacred Volume, the nature of the faith by which " the just shall live ;" and which showed, by a reference to the divers and mighty works, which, through faith's sustaining power, the fathers of old had been enabled to achieve, the blessedness " of them that believe to the saving of the soul V We ob...
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