Letters on various subjects. [With a portrait.], Volume 5Simpkin, Marshall&Company, 1847 - Methodist Church |
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... truth , propriety of . A redundancy of metaphor to be avoided . The Author defends his style of preach- ing by an appeal to effects produced in Sheffield . LETTER II . To the same . An effective style of preaching , laborious and ...
... truth , propriety of . A redundancy of metaphor to be avoided . The Author defends his style of preach- ing by an appeal to effects produced in Sheffield . LETTER II . To the same . An effective style of preaching , laborious and ...
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... truths of the Bible , what a writer , some years ago , remarked on landscape gardening . Speaking of the larger and more un- manageable features of country scenery , he says : " They are to be left as God has left them . Who attempts to ...
... truths of the Bible , what a writer , some years ago , remarked on landscape gardening . Speaking of the larger and more un- manageable features of country scenery , he says : " They are to be left as God has left them . Who attempts to ...
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... a sermon ; there may be more flowers , -more tropes , figures , and similitudes , than gospel truth . Those who come to admire such things , will , doubtless , be pleased ; but those who are hungry for the bread 2 CAUGHEY'S.
... a sermon ; there may be more flowers , -more tropes , figures , and similitudes , than gospel truth . Those who come to admire such things , will , doubtless , be pleased ; but those who are hungry for the bread 2 CAUGHEY'S.
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... truth , -in such a manner as to compel the hearers to say , with tears , as did the old Dutchman in America , " Dat was de very bottom of de gospel , " — was well illustrated by an old divine , centuries ago , when he compared the ...
... truth , -in such a manner as to compel the hearers to say , with tears , as did the old Dutchman in America , " Dat was de very bottom of de gospel , " — was well illustrated by an old divine , centuries ago , when he compared the ...
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... truth which he has grasped and wielded , has , it would appear , entered too deeply into the hearts of perishing sinners , to subject him to the charge you have preferred . Now , when a man preaches month after month , year after year ...
... truth which he has grasped and wielded , has , it would appear , entered too deeply into the hearts of perishing sinners , to subject him to the charge you have preferred . Now , when a man preaches month after month , year after year ...
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