The Visitor's Book of Texts (Bonar)

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Bonar, Andrew

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9781848710719

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Banner of Truth Trust

Pages:

280

Binding:

Paperback

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The pastoral visitation of the sick and sorrowful is a spiritual exercise. Its purpose is to bring God’s Word to those in need in the prayerful hope of the Spirit’s blessing upon it. Such visitation is not the preserve of pastors only; it is the duty of the whole church, as our Lord reminded his disciples with the words, ‘I was sick, and ye visited me’.

How we should visit the sick, and what we should say on our visits to them are the important matters addressed in this most useful book. Written by a spiritual giant of the nineteenth century church, the book contains much-needed advice and clear guidance. Bonar gathers together a great number of Bible verses that will prove eminently suitable for a wide range of individual cases. These selected scriptures are interspersed with the author’s own brief, spiritual, and helpful comments. Here then is a book that should be in the hands of every Christian visitor. It ought to be consulted prayerfully before embarking with God’s Word to the sick and sorrowful.

Table of Contents:

PART I – The Word Brought Near the Sick

The believer is sick

The sick believer troubled—

I By temptation

II By circumstances connected with his sickness

III Under bodily pain

The believer is dying

The sick person’s spiritual state is unknown to you

The sick person lacks knowledge

The sick person is self-righteous

The sick person is anxious

The sick person is a backslider

The sick person is hardened, because sceptical

105

The sick person is indifferent

117

PART II – The Word Brought Near to Seven Classes Who May Be Found in the Sick Room

Recovery from sickness—the believer’s case

129

Recovery from sickness—the case of the nominal Christian and the unbeliever

139

For the aged who are sick

147

For young men or women who are sick

161

For children who are sick

173

For those attending to the sick

183

For the friends of the sick

193

PART III – The Word Brought Near to the Sorrowful

The sorrowful, when their thoughts are directed to their own loss in the death of friends

203

The sorrowful, when their thoughts are directed to the state of those who have died—

215

I In regard to those who have died in the Lord

218

II In regard to those of whose state you are ignorant

222

III In regard to those of whom you fear the worst

225

The sorrowful—widow and orphan

231

Sorrowful because of forebodings and cares

241

Sorrowful because of worldly circumstances

255

Sorrowful because of persecution, lack of sympathy, or the like

263

The sorrow of the world

271

Author

Andrew Alexander Bonar (1810-92), the youngest brother of Horatius, was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University. He was ordained at Collace, Perthshire in 1838, where he was minister in the Church of Scotland to the Disruption (1843) and in the Free Church until moving to Finnieston Free Church, Glasgow in 1856. He was Moderator of the Free Church Assembly in 1878. He visited Palestine with Robert Murray M’Cheyne in 1839, and was his friend’s biographer after his early death.