{"id":1782,"date":"2013-09-14T15:47:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w3.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2013-09-14T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T13:47:30","slug":"advice-for-hearing-sermons-by-john-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Hearing Sermons by John Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyston.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/13\/a-letter-on-hearing-sermons-by-john-newton\/\" target=\"_blank\">the entire letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some persons are so curious, or rather so weak, that, if their favorite minister is occasionally absent, they hardly think it worth their while to hear another. A judicious and faithful minister, in this case, instead of being delighted with such a mark of peculiar attachment to himself, will be grieved to think that they have profited no more by his labors; for it is his desire to win souls, not to himself, but to Jesus Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Entreat the Lord, who knows better than you do yourself, to guide you where your soul may be best fed, and when your choice is fixed, you will do well to make a point of attending his ministry constantly, I mean at least at the stated times of worship on the Lord\u2019s day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These quotes are from John Newton and published over <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyston.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">at the Protestant Pulpit.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from the entire letter: Some persons are so curious, or rather so weak, that, if their favorite minister is occasionally absent, they hardly think it worth their while to hear another. A judicious and faithful minister, in this case, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1782\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[104,101,103,362,102],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral","category-quotes","tag-favorite-preachers","tag-john-newton","tag-protestant-pulpit","tag-quotes","tag-sermons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QrZa-sK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}