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... taste . Now in respect of skill , preaching is an art ; and while art cannot create the requisite powers of mind or body , nor supply their place if really absent , it can develop and improve them , and aid in using them to the best ...
... taste . Now in respect of skill , preaching is an art ; and while art cannot create the requisite powers of mind or body , nor supply their place if really absent , it can develop and improve them , and aid in using them to the best ...
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... taste . But a great error it is . In all speaking , especially in preaching , naturalness , genuineness , even though awkward , is really more effective for all the high- est ends , than the most elegant artificiality . " But it is the ...
... taste . But a great error it is . In all speaking , especially in preaching , naturalness , genuineness , even though awkward , is really more effective for all the high- est ends , than the most elegant artificiality . " But it is the ...
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... taste which disgraced it , had also banished the custom of preaching on a text . Indeed , to speak long on a quotation of a line or two , to exhaust one's self in subjecting a whole discourse to the con trol of this line , seems a ...
... taste which disgraced it , had also banished the custom of preaching on a text . Indeed , to speak long on a quotation of a line or two , to exhaust one's self in subjecting a whole discourse to the con trol of this line , seems a ...
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... taste and circumstances . But the man who is tempted , in our time and country , to deal in deliberate oddities in order to strike , would do well to recall Cowper's words , " " T is pitiful To court a grin when you should woo a soul ...
... taste and circumstances . But the man who is tempted , in our time and country , to deal in deliberate oddities in order to strike , would do well to recall Cowper's words , " " T is pitiful To court a grin when you should woo a soul ...
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... tastes , or by their comparative richness in evangelical and practical matter . 6. Do not take spurious passages . A favorite text with many is Acts 9 : 6 , " Lord , what wilt thou have me to do ? " This is unquestionably spurious , and ...
... tastes , or by their comparative richness in evangelical and practical matter . 6. Do not take spurious passages . A favorite text with many is Acts 9 : 6 , " Lord , what wilt thou have me to do ? " This is unquestionably spurious , and ...
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Popular passages
Page 202 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 58 - 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 : 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 368 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...
Page 71 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh : for childhood and youth are vanity.
Page 196 - 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 202 - And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?
Page 196 - 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 197 - 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 374 - 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 58 - Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.