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The Church the converter of the heathen, 2 sermons
The Church the converter of the heathen 2 sermons Author:Edward Bouverie Pusey 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: Psalm Ixxxvii. 3—5. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O City of God. I will make mention ofRahab and Babylon with them that knov Me : behold Philistia and ... more »Tyre with Ethiopia ; this man was born there. And of Zion it shall be said, ' this and that man was born in her,'' and the Highest Himself shall establish her. Few probably, in these days, but are familiar with many, at least, of the glorious announcements of the Gospel in the Old Testament. We hear or read them currently repeated, whenever the attempt is made to call forth fresh interest in any of the various endeavours to convert the heathen; few breasts but have at some time glowed with them ; and in that glow of spirit, it is natural that people should not weigh very accurately the words which they hear or repeat; they take them by a sort of tradition, as they have been wont to hear them applied; they see that they relate to the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom; they know or think that Missionaries, and the circulation of the word of God, are means to this end; and the Word of God is to them His written word, as they have it printed in their Bibles, and Missionaries they know " i."e. amongst, as being amongst them, that know Me. to be " persons sent out;" and so it never occurs to them, but that persons sent out any how, or the Bible any how dispersed, are the means of which Scripture speaks; and so habituated are they to associate these means with the Prophetic promises, that they would not think of examining or doubting about it. The received notions are assumed as certain truths. This is very natural; for persons almost always understand Holy Scripture according to notions previously received, and were intended so to do, provided they be derived from the right source ; it is very natural, but it may be v...« less