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... language of George Herbert will never cease to be itself instructive . He published his Country Parson about forty years after the first three books of Spenser's Faery Queen were written , but this poem cannot well be under- stood ...
... language of George Herbert will never cease to be itself instructive . He published his Country Parson about forty years after the first three books of Spenser's Faery Queen were written , but this poem cannot well be under- stood ...
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... language , and es- pecially no clergyman should fail to be familiar . He is , says Dr. Doddridge , " my particular favorite . It is impossible to tell you , how much I am charmed with the devotion , good sense and pathos which is ...
... language , and es- pecially no clergyman should fail to be familiar . He is , says Dr. Doddridge , " my particular favorite . It is impossible to tell you , how much I am charmed with the devotion , good sense and pathos which is ...
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... language , 433 -437 ; for the conclusion , 438-440 . LECTURE X. - Controversial sermons ; their proper arrangement , style and spirit , 440-450 . LECTURE XI . - Commendatory sermons ; their proper style and spirit , 450-459 . The ...
... language , 433 -437 ; for the conclusion , 438-440 . LECTURE X. - Controversial sermons ; their proper arrangement , style and spirit , 440-450 . LECTURE XI . - Commendatory sermons ; their proper style and spirit , 450-459 . The ...
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... language of an acute divine , " he must know something of everything , although he can know everything of nothing . " What Napoleon said of France may be accommodated to the Christian ministry , and 2 OF THE PREACHER'S WORK . 13.
... language of an acute divine , " he must know something of everything , although he can know everything of nothing . " What Napoleon said of France may be accommodated to the Christian ministry , and 2 OF THE PREACHER'S WORK . 13.
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... language , and must learn to interpret the Bible from the principles of mental suggestion . He must investigate the nature of the intellectual powers as he is to use them , and the susceptibilities as he is to address them in the pulpit ...
... language , and must learn to interpret the Bible from the principles of mental suggestion . He must investigate the nature of the intellectual powers as he is to use them , and the susceptibilities as he is to address them in the pulpit ...
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Page 149 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 375 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 356 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 439 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 417 - For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 136 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 439 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 349 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 16 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page 121 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...