The Christian Preacher: Or, Discourses on PreachingW.W. Woodward, 1810 - 334 pages |
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... proposition to be known or believed , this is to be explained ( when * The method now recommended is clearly exemplified by President EDWARDS . Perhaps no modern author follows the plan of composing sermons here proposed more generally ...
... proposition to be known or believed , this is to be explained ( when * The method now recommended is clearly exemplified by President EDWARDS . Perhaps no modern author follows the plan of composing sermons here proposed more generally ...
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... proposition is confirmed by positive proofs , the next thing to be done is the removing of doubts and objections that may be made against it ; in the doing of which , such doubts only ought to be taken notice of as are most obvious and ...
... proposition is confirmed by positive proofs , the next thing to be done is the removing of doubts and objections that may be made against it ; in the doing of which , such doubts only ought to be taken notice of as are most obvious and ...
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... propositions may be revealed to us from heaven , which may be so far superior to the li- mits and sphere of our reasoning powers , in the present state , that human reason ought not to reject them , be- cause it cannot fully understand ...
... propositions may be revealed to us from heaven , which may be so far superior to the li- mits and sphere of our reasoning powers , in the present state , that human reason ought not to reject them , be- cause it cannot fully understand ...
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... proposition . § 17. ( II . ) Of texts to be discussed by way of OBSERVATION . Some general directions . $ 18. Some SOURCES of invention and observations . Genius and species , characters of virtue or vice , relation and supposition ...
... proposition . § 17. ( II . ) Of texts to be discussed by way of OBSERVATION . Some general directions . $ 18. Some SOURCES of invention and observations . Genius and species , characters of virtue or vice , relation and supposition ...
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... PROPOSITIONS . § 28. These four ways may be sometimes mixed . § 29. Of the EXORDIUM . Ita design . Partly to promote suitable affections and attention ; but , § 30. Principally , to prepare and conduct the mind to the subject . § 31. On ...
... PROPOSITIONS . § 28. These four ways may be sometimes mixed . § 29. Of the EXORDIUM . Ita design . Partly to promote suitable affections and attention ; but , § 30. Principally , to prepare and conduct the mind to the subject . § 31. On ...
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Page 136 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 156 - Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 55 - Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Page 70 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 175 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God cast thyself down ; for it is written He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 68 - ... for ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal...
Page 149 - Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; That I might leave my people, and go from them ! For they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Page 224 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict "which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Page 126 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Page 308 - 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.