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What good shall men get by hearing of sermons?

Walking With Giants Posted on by

Here’s a Puritan answer to this question:-

  1. The Holy Ghost is here given, Acts 10:44
  2. Men’s hearts are here opened, Acts 16:14
  3. The fear of God doth here fall upon men, Acts 13:16
  4. The proud and stony heart of men is here tamed, melted and made to tremble, Isa 66:2
  5. The faith of God’s elect is here begotten, Rom 10:14
  6. Men are here sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, Eph 1:13
  7. Here the Spirit speaketh to the churches, Eph 1:13
  8. Christ here comes to sup with men, Rev 3:20
  9. The painful distress of the afflicted conscience is here or nowhere cursed by hearing, the bones that God hath broken receive joy and gladness, Ps 51:8
  10. What shall I say, but as the Evangelical Prophet saith? If you can do nothing else, yet “hear, and your soul shall live” Isa 55:3…for salvation is brought to us by hearing, Acts 28:28.

(Nicholas Byfield, Q in Lewis, The Genius of Puritanism, 42f)

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