A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of SermonsLondon, 1874 - 373 pages |
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analogy Andrew Fuller appear application argument Aristotle attention audience better Bible burden of proof chap character Christian Church of England Cicero common Comp conclusion course delivery Demosthenes discourse discussion distinct divisions doctrine effect eloquence employed English especially example excited explanation expository preaching expository sermons expression extempo extemporaneous extemporaneous preaching extemporaneous speaking fact fault feeling frequently give gospel habit hearers Homiletics hymns idea illustration imagination important impressive instructive interest Jeremy Taylor language logical matter means ment merely method mind natural never object observed occasion orator oratorical particular passage passion peculiar persons perspicuity phrase practical prayer preacher preparation present presumption priori proper proposition pulpit question Quintilian reading refutation remarks respect Rhet Rhetoric Robert Hall Scripture sense sentence sometimes speaker speaking speech style taste teachings tences text-sermons thing thought tion topics treatise true truth variety Vinet Whately words writing
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Page 287 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 34 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 50 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Page 146 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 34 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 276 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 322 - In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object of my implacable disgust.
Page 146 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 146 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 282 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.