Just A Talker
Sayings of John ('Rabbi') Duncan
153 in stock
Weight | 0.62 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.13 × 4.75 × 0.75 in |
ISBN | 9780851517261 |
Binding | Paperback |
Topic | General Theology, Spiritual Growth, Pastoral Biography |
Original Pub Date | 1997 |
Banner Pub Date | Jun 1, 1997 |
Page Count | 317 |
Format | Book |
Book Description
When asked why he never wrote a book, John (‘Rabbi’) Duncan (1796-1870) replied, ‘I cannot write, I’m just a talker.’ Duncan had a genius for expressing profound thoughts in brief epigrammatic sayings. ‘What I have sought to do in these pages is take the aphorisms of his conversations, as recorded in several original sources and present them here in one book, believing that they will greatly enrich the hearts and minds of all who read them.
The amount of clear thought packed into these pages is altogether out of proportion to their number. Duncan’s sayings have a near unique combination of depth and brevity. He exemplified the standard he expected of other: ‘I would advise everyone to be very careful to use no more words than are necessary to express thought. Whenever a man becomes cloudy in his words, be sure that his thought has become shadowy too.’ On Duncan’s death, William Knight remarked, ‘With him has perished a breathing library of wisdom.’
Table of Contents Expand ↓
PREFACE | xv | |
BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION
by John E. Marshall and John J. Murray |
xvii | |
SOME LEADING ASPECTS OF DR DUNCAN’S LIFE | xxxiv | |
PART I: SHORTER SAYINGS | ||
Adoption | 3 | |
Affliction | 4 | |
Antinomianism | 4 | |
Arminianism | 5 | |
Assurance of Salvation | 6 | |
Atheism | 7 | |
Atonement | 8 | |
Baptism | 9 | |
Bible | 10 | |
Bible Characters | 16 | |
Books | 19 | |
Brethrenism | 19 | |
Calvinism | 20 | |
Christ | 21 | |
Christianity | 39 | |
Church | 39 | |
Church Government | 42 | |
The Church in Scotland | 43 | |
Civil Government and Rulers | 43 | |
Comfort | 44 | |
Conscience | 44 | |
Controversy | 47 | |
Conversion | 48 | |
Conviction of Sin | 51 | |
Creation | 51 | |
Creatures | 52 | |
Creeds and Confessions of Faith | 53 | |
Death | 53 | |
Despondency | 56 | |
Devils or Demons | 56 | |
Devotion to God | 57 | |
Doctrine | 57 | |
Doubts and Doubting | 58 | |
Duty | 60 | |
Election | 60 | |
The English Language | 61 | |
Envy and Vaunting | 61 | |
Evangelicalism | 62 | |
Evangelism | 62 | |
Experience | 62 | |
Faith | 62 | |
Family Worship | 67 | |
Fasting | 68 | |
Fear | 68 | |
Feelings | 68 | |
Flattery | 68 | |
Free Will | 68 | |
Friendship | 69 | |
Genius | 69 | |
Glory | 70 | |
God | 70 | |
Godliness | 84 | |
Goodness | 84 | |
Good Works | 85 | |
Gospel | 85 | |
Grace | 91 | |
Hatred | 93 | |
Heart | 93 | |
Heaven | 94 | |
Hell | 95 | |
History | 96 | |
Holiness | 96 | |
The Holy Spirit | 96 | |
Hope | 97 | |
Humility | 97 | |
Hyper-Calvinists | 98 | |
Hypocrisy and Hypocrites | 98 | |
Idolatry | 99 | |
Intolerance | 99 | |
Jews | 99 | |
Joy | 101 | |
Justification | 102 | |
Kindness | 103 | |
Kings and Priests | 104 | |
Knowledge | 104 | |
Language and Languages | 104 | |
Law | 105 | |
Life | 109 | |
Lord’s Day | 110 | |
Lord’s Supper | 110 | |
Love | 112 | |
Man | 115 | |
Marriage and Divorce | 118 | |
Means of Grace | 119 | |
Merit | 119 | |
Ministers and Ministry | 120 | |
Miracles and the Miraculous | 122 | |
Music in Worship | 123 | |
Mysticism | 124 | |
Nature and Natural Blessings | 125 | |
Non-Essentials | 125 | |
Obedience and Disobedience | 125 | |
Old Testament Saints | 126 | |
Order | 127 | |
Pantheism | 127 | |
Peace | 128 | |
Pelagianism | 128 | |
Perdition | 129 | |
Perfectionism | 129 | |
Perseverance of the Saints | 129 | |
Philosophers and Thinkers | 130 | |
Philosophies | 132 | |
Philosophy | 133 | |
Pleasure | 133 | |
Poetry and Poets | 134 | |
Praise | 134 | |
Prayer | 135 | |
Preaching | 139 | |
Predestination | 141 | |
Pride | 141 | |
Progress | 142 | |
Promises of God | 143 | |
Property and Possession | 144 | |
Protestants | 144 | |
Providence | 144 | |
Psalms | 145 | |
Redemption | 147 | |
Regeneration | 147 | |
Regulative Principle | 149 | |
Religion | 149 | |
Repentance | 151 | |
Revelation | 153 | |
Revival | 153 | |
Roman Catholicism | 154 | |
Salvation | 155 | |
Sanctification | 157 | |
Sandemanianism | 158 | |
Satan | 158 | |
Science | 159 | |
Self-Examination | 159 | |
Self-Expression | 160 | |
Self-Fulfilment | 160 | |
Self-Sufficiency | 160 | |
Sin | 160 | |
Sincerity | 169 | |
Singing in Worship | 169 | |
Speculation | 170 | |
Spiritual Frames and Conditions | 170 | |
Supernatural | 172 | |
Theologians | 172 | |
Theology | 184 | |
Trust | 185 | |
Truth | 185 | |
Unbelief | 185 | |
Will | 186 | |
Women | 186 | |
World | 187 | |
Worship | 189 | |
PART II: LONGER EXTRACTS | ||
Anthems | 193 | |
Assurance | 193 | |
Believers | 202 | |
Christ | 203 | |
Communion of Saints | 211 | |
Conscience | 213 | |
Conversion | 213 | |
Death | 214 | |
Debt | 216 | |
Effectual Calling | 217 | |
Establishment Principle | 222 | |
Extermination of the Canaanites | 223 | |
Faith | 224 | |
God | 225 | |
Gospel | 227 | |
The Holy Spirit | 230 | |
Jews | 232 | |
Justification | 233 | |
Law | 236 | |
Love | 242 | |
Man | 245 | |
Ministry | 246 | |
Obedience | 247 | |
Passion Week | 249 | |
Preaching | 249 | |
Prophets | 255 | |
Psalms, Paraphrases and Hymns | 255 | |
Semi-Pelagianism and Arminianism | 256 | |
Sin | 256 | |
Sincerity | 261 | |
Theology | 262 | |
Threefold Union | 265 | |
EPILOGUE | 266 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 267 | |
INDEX | 269 |
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