The Christian Ministry: With an Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Inefficiency (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Charles Bridges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334275890 ISBN 13: 9781334275890

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Christian Ministry: With an Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Inefficiency

After all, he is deeply conscious, that this most responsible work has suffered - perhaps materially - from the unskilfulness of its treatment. He would desire, however, to be accepted of his brethren,2 in a sin cere attempt to subserve the? Grand cause, to which they, equally with himself, are consecrated and he would beg to express his earnest desires to be favoured with private communications for the improvement of a second edition (should it ever be called for) for which purpose he sub joins his place of residence at full length.

For his work he has no other wish than that Of the Country Parson The Lord prosper the intention to myself, and others, who may not despise my poor labours but add to those points, which I have observed, until the book grows to a complete pastoral.

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Charles Bridges (1794-1869) was one of the leaders of the Evangelical party in the Church of England in the nineteenth century. He was the vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk, from 1823 to 1849, and later of Weymouth and Hinton Martell in Dorset.
Educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, Bridges was ordained in 1817. As a preacher he was called upon for such important occasions as the Clerical Conference at Weston-super-Mare in 1858 (when he preached along with J. C. Ryle) and the consecration of the Bishop of Carlisle in York Minster in l860.
Renowned though he was in his own day for his pulpit ministry, his subsequent fame rests in the books which came from his pen An Exposition of Psalm CXIX (1827), Forty-eight Scriptural Studies (5th ed. 1833), Fifty-four Scriptural Studies (1837), An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs (1846), a Manual for the Young (1849), and An Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes (1860). His The Christian Ministry went through nine editions within 20 years of its appearance in 1829 and has probably remained unequalled in its field. These works earned high commendation from many, including C. H. Spurgeon, who described all Bridge s writings as 'very suggestive to ministers.'
After his death a small selection of his correspondence was published in book form in 1870 and it reveals a man of deep Christian piety. 'I never remember anyone,' says the writer of the Foreword to The Christian Ministry, 'in whose presence it was more difficult to be irreligious, or even frivolous.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1334275890
• ISBN 13: 9781334275890
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 495