Why do we gather together on Sundays to worship God? Two hundred years ago, Christians asked a similar question. In his work entitled Public Worship Considered and Enforced, Joseph Kinghorn unpacks the meaning and significance of public worship. Through a biblical analysis of what it means to be a Christian in Christ's Church, Kinghorn highlights not just the blessing of meeting with the people of God but the necessity of public worship in the walk of faith. In an age of increasing isolation and a lone-wolf approach to the Christian life, Kinghorn's applications for readers to consider and practice in their own Christian walk are just as relevant to the twenty-first century reader as they were to saints two hundred years prior. Public Worship Considered and Enforced exhorts us again to the profound means of grace given to Christians to experience and participate in the worship we were born to do.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ John Rylands University Library of Manchester T171646 Norwich: printed and sold by R. Bacon; and may be had of J. Annis; and of W. Button, London, 1800. [2], ii,5-34p.; 12°