Ecclesiastes Anglicanus: Being a Treatise on Preaching, as Adapted to a Church of England Congregation : in a Series of Letters to a Young Clergyman |
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... falls like lead on the ear ; the same persons have heard the same truths discussed week after week ; and the utmost you can accomplish is , by some variety of argument or illustration , to prepare the same heavenly food in a more ...
... falls like lead on the ear ; the same persons have heard the same truths discussed week after week ; and the utmost you can accomplish is , by some variety of argument or illustration , to prepare the same heavenly food in a more ...
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... fall , of making their hearers fancy themselves sufferers rather than sinners — to be pitied rather than blamed . Be sure you leave the impression that it is to our- selves only that we are indebted for our continuance in sin and danger ...
... fall , of making their hearers fancy themselves sufferers rather than sinners — to be pitied rather than blamed . Be sure you leave the impression that it is to our- selves only that we are indebted for our continuance in sin and danger ...
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... falling into an arbitrary system , and adopting the opinion of some sect or party , instead of founding your instruc- tion on the broad basis of a Scripture truth , as held and set forth by the Church . It is not that they who adopt a ...
... falling into an arbitrary system , and adopting the opinion of some sect or party , instead of founding your instruc- tion on the broad basis of a Scripture truth , as held and set forth by the Church . It is not that they who adopt a ...
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... fall into them inadvertently . Be careful not to represent as a necessary consequence what is only probable , nor press an argument which is liable to manifest objections . For which cause you should beware how you adopt those which you ...
... fall into them inadvertently . Be careful not to represent as a necessary consequence what is only probable , nor press an argument which is liable to manifest objections . For which cause you should beware how you adopt those which you ...
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... fall into extremes . You must not take too much for granted . What you do take for granted should be only used as an encouragement to further advance : you may assume your hearers to be entitled to the privileges of the Gospel , but not ...
... fall into extremes . You must not take too much for granted . What you do take for granted should be only used as an encouragement to further advance : you may assume your hearers to be entitled to the privileges of the Gospel , but not ...
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Page 57 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 250 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 158 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith...
Page 78 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 59 - For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established ; 12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
Page 82 - Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father : there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
Page 295 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effeetually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 225 - And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come : but woe unto him through whom they come ! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Page 116 - Behold the fire and the wood : but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 33 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world...