LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,
AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

THE

COTTAGER'S MONTHLY VISITOR.

JANUARY, 1842.

CONTENTS:

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On the Name of a Believer 1 Extracts from my Family Bible.. 20

Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Selections from Matthew Henry. 22

Songs .

2 Powerlessness of Infidelity 23

Twelve Reasons for Going to the The High Priest in his Robes 25

Parish Church..

4 Extract from a Sermon of Latimer 27

Debt

8 English Bishop in Jerusalem .... 28

Lise of Lord Cobham

10 Why should we complain of our

On the Miracle of the Loaves and

Climate? ...........

32

Fishes...
14 The New Year

34
Observance of the Sabbath 17| Extracts from Newspapers, &c... 36

ON THE NAME OF À BELIEVER.
Since the salvation of Jesus Christ in the Gospel is only
to be obtained by faith, the name of believer is a very
proper one to distinguish his disciples from the rest of the
world. It denotes both that they receive all that God
has revealed of his Son, and that they derive from be-
lieving, the whole of that character which makes them
differ from others. It shows that they seek every bless-
ing through believing, and that this is their first and most
important business? As St. Paul writes of himself, it is
to be said of them all, they" live by the faith of the Son
of God, who loved them, and gave himself for them "."
All, therefore, with whom this is the case, are not only
believing in God, but also living to Him; because by this

1 John vi. 29.

VOL. XXII.

2 Gal. ii. 20.

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