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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... Holy Scriptures and the whole moral and material world afford , any one who can write at all may surely write a sermon . But , in truth , the real aim and object of a preacher , if duly estimated , is the most arduous which can be ...
... Holy Scriptures and the whole moral and material world afford , any one who can write at all may surely write a sermon . But , in truth , the real aim and object of a preacher , if duly estimated , is the most arduous which can be ...
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... holy Church . But , alas ! I fear it is too certain to admit of dispute , that all have more or less fallen from the state of grace , and need repentance and renewal unto holiness . The best have to be reminded continually of their ...
... holy Church . But , alas ! I fear it is too certain to admit of dispute , that all have more or less fallen from the state of grace , and need repentance and renewal unto holiness . The best have to be reminded continually of their ...
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... holy and beautiful Liturgy ; by the humble use of which good and faithful men are led continually forward in their Christian course . It is in dealing with the other class that the Preacher's chief difficulty consists . Supposing ( what ...
... holy and beautiful Liturgy ; by the humble use of which good and faithful men are led continually forward in their Christian course . It is in dealing with the other class that the Preacher's chief difficulty consists . Supposing ( what ...
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... holy confidence , that God intends to accomplish His work , even by " the foolishness of your preaching . " When making your preparation , believe that what you are at that moment doing , may , through the power of God , be the blessed ...
... holy confidence , that God intends to accomplish His work , even by " the foolishness of your preaching . " When making your preparation , believe that what you are at that moment doing , may , through the power of God , be the blessed ...
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... holy law of God , and how dangerous it is , -how fatal it must be , -to their eternal interests , if urrepented of . And then you 1 Titus iii . 3 . 2 Romans vi . 21 . should point out to them their utter helplessness and incapacity 28 ...
... holy law of God , and how dangerous it is , -how fatal it must be , -to their eternal interests , if urrepented of . And then you 1 Titus iii . 3 . 2 Romans vi . 21 . should point out to them their utter helplessness and incapacity 28 ...
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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...