The Christian Certainties, Discourses
The Christian Certainties, Discourses

Author: John Clifford

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781230241333

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... THE COMING THEOLOGY. FATHERS and brethren, nineteen years ago, I spoke to you from this Chair on "Jesus Christ and Modern Social Life." Privileged to speak to you once more as your Chairman, I choose a theme as difficult as it is urgent, as momentous in its issues as it is fitting to the hour; and with at least this advantage for me, that it is in the line of the addresses I have recently given as President of the Baptist Union. That subject is "The Coming Theology; or, the Primitive Christian Faith, the Source and Basis of a Living and Progressive Christian Theology." But I feel it would be ungracious to enter upon this discussion without first expressing the sincere gratitude I feel for the confidence and affection which prompted you to call me to this office a second time. I am deeply grateful. I belong to you, and count it the chief distinction of my public life that I have been permitted to serve you so long. Forty years ago last Monday but one, I was baptized and received into one of your village churches--churches of men, women, and children "called to be saints," made venerable and lovely as "habitations of God"; the sacred places where our faithful forerunners The Address from the Chair of the General Baptist Association, Burnley, Lancashire, June 23, 1891. s "Schooled themselves by vigil, fast and prayer, And learnt to love as Jesus loved, And bore the cross that poor men bare." You led me as a lad to attempt the preaching of the Gospel, trained me in your College, and sent me to minister to the church where I have laboured for nearly one-third of a century. But the time fails me to tell the debt I owe to you, to your generous sympathy and kindly forbearance, to your churches, and to your institutions; and now you compel a...

The Christian Certainties, Discourses
The Christian Certainties, Discourses

Author: University John Clifford

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781358872082

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