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Lecture
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WHAT A REVIVAL OF RELIGION IS.
What a revival of religion is not - What it is - The
agencies employed in promoting it. |
Lecture
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WHEN A REVIVAL IS TO BE EXPECTED.
When a revival is needed - The importance of a revival when
it is needed - When a revival of religion may be expected.
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HOW TO PROMOTE A REVIVAL.
What
it is to break up the fallow ground - How it is to be
performed. |
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PREVAILING PRAYER.
What is
effectual or prevailing prayer - Some of the most essential
attributes of prevailing prayer - Some reasons why God
requires this kind of prayer - That such prayer will avail
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THE PRAYER OF FAITH.
Faith an
indispensable condition of prevailing prayer - What it is we
are to believe when we pray - When we are bound to exercise
this faith -This kind of faith in prayer always obtains the
blessing sought - How we are to come into the state of mind
in which we can exercise such faith -Objections answered
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THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER.
What
Spirit is spoken of in the passage: "The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities" - What that
Spirit does for us - Why He does what the text declares Him to do - How
He accomplishes it - The degrees of His influences - How His influences
are to be distinguished from the influences of evil spirits - Who have
a right to expect His influences |
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ON BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT.
Individuals may have the Spirit of God - It is their duty to
be filled with the Spirit - Why the Spirit is not obtained -
The guilt of those who have not the Spirit of God - The
consequences of having the Spirit. -The consequences that
will follow not having the Spirit |
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MEETINGS FOR PRAYER.
The design
of prayer meetings - The manner of conducting them -Several
things that will defeat the design of holding them.
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MEANS TO BE USED WITH SINNERS.
On what particular points Christians are to testify for God
- The manner in which they are to testify |
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TO WIN SOULS REQUIRES WISDOM.
How Christians
should deal with careless sinners - How they should deal with awakened
sinners, and with convicted sinners
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A WISE MINISTER WILL BE SUCCESSFUL
A right
discharge of the duties of a minister requires great wisdom - The amount
of success in the discharge of his duties (other things being equal) decides
the amount of wisdom employed by him.
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HOW TO PREACH THE GOSPEL.
Several passages
of Scripture ascribe conversion to man - This is consistent with other
passages which ascribe conversion to God - Several important particulars
in regard to preaching the Gospel
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HOW CHURCHES CAN HELP MINISTERS.
The importance
of the cooperation of the Church in producing and carrying on a revival
- Several things which Churches must do, if they would promote a revival
and aid their ministers
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MEASURES TO PROMOTE REVIVALS.
God has established
no particular system of measures to be employed -Our present forms of public
worship have been arrived at by a succession of new measures
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Lecture 15 |
HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS.
A revival of religion
is a great work - Several things which may put a stop to it - What must
be done for the continuance of a revival
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THE NECESSITY AND EFFECT OF UNION.
We are
to be agreed in prayer - We are likewise to be agreed in everything that
is essential to the blessing we seek
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FALSE COMFORTS FOR SINNERS.
The necessity
and design of instructing anxious sinners - Anxious sinners are always
seeking comfort - The false comforts that are often administered
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DIRECTIONS TO SINNERS.
What is a proper
direction to be given to sinners when they make inquiry for salvation -
What is a proper answer to such inquiry - Several errors into which anxious
sinners are apt to fall
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INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS.
Several things to be considered in regard to the hopes of
young converts -Several things respecting their making a
profession of religion - The importance of having correct
instruction given to young converts - What should not be
taught - What things are necessary to be taught
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Lecture 20 |
INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS
(continued).
Other points on which young converts ought
to be instructed - How young converts should be treated by
the Church - Some of the evils resulting from defective
instruction in the first stages of Christian experience
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Lecture 21 |
THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART.
What
backsliding in heart is not - What it is - What are its
evidences -What are its consequences - How to recover from
such a state. |
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GROWTH IN GRACE.
What grace is - What
the injunction to "grow in grace" does not mean -What it does mean - Conditions
of growth in grace - What is not proof of growth - What is proof - How
to grow in grace
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