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Excellent! Chalmers is pastoral and winsome. He's Shakespearean in that he can say one thing in scores of different ways while avoiding redundancy. His main message is this: "and the most effectual way of withdrawing the mind from one object is not by turning it away upon desolate and unpeopled vacancy, but by presenting to its regards another object still more alluring" (34). ( )
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"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15
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[Foreword] Who was Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847)?
[Series Preface] John Piper, once wrote that books do not change people, but paragraphs do.
[Biography of Thomas Chalmers] Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) was born in Fife, Scotland.
There are two ways in which a practical moralist may attempt to displace from the human heart its love of the world--either by a demonstration of the world's vanity, so as that the heart shall be prevailed upon simply to withdraw its regards from an object that is not worthy of it; or by setting forth another object, even God, as more worthy of its attachment, so as that the heart shall be prevailed upon not to resign an old affection, which shall have nothing to succeed it, but to exchange an old affection for a new one.
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This "love" is not a duty one performs. It is a delight one prefers. It is an affection before it is a commitment.
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[Foreword] Perhaps you will decide, by the time you are done reading, that he has shed so much light on the workings of your own heart in relation to 1 John 2:15 that his illumination is, in fact, a very powerful exposition of God's meaning.
[Series Preface] Our prayer is that the Holy Spirit will use these short works to arrest your attention, preach the gospel to your soul, and motivate you to continue exploring the treasure chest of church history, to the praise and glory of God in Christ.
[Biography of Thomas Chalmers] Much like his contemporaries Wilberforce and John Newton, Chalmers embraced a holistic view of the Christian life, exhorting believers to joyfully and sacrificially live out the life-changing implications of the gospel.
And let the existing tendencies of the heart be what they may to the scene that is near and visibly around us, still if another stood revealed to the prospect of man, either through the channel of faith or through the channel of his senses, then, without violence done to the constitution of his moral nature, may he die unto the present world and live to the lovelier world that stands in the distance away from it.
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