Thomas Chalmers
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Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) was a Scottish minister, theologian, and social reformer who led the Disruption of 1843, which produced the Free Church of Scotland. Regarded as the greatest Scottish churchman of his century, he combined powerful evangelical preaching with innovative schemes for urban poor relief and church extension.
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Essay on Guthrie's The Christian's Great Interest: Part I
There are few subjects or exercises more deeply important to professing Christians, than that which forms the principal topic in the following admirable treatise — the work of self-examination. But self-examination is a work of great difficulty, and is accordingly shrunk from, or altogether…
Essay on Guthrie's The Christian's Great Interest: Part II
Now, when we set about any new exercise whatever, we first begin with that which is easy, and afterwards proceed therefrom to that which is more arduous. In the work of self-examination, there is a scale of difficulty — and it were well perhaps that we should make our first entrance upon the work…