An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon, Volume 2T. Scollick ... and T. Wilson and R. Spence, York, 1788 |
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Page xiv
... fome occafions , the preachers appeared in publick with vifible figns , with implements of war , yokes of flavery , or fome- thing adapted to their fubject . They gave lectures on thefe , held them up to view , girded them on , broke ...
... fome occafions , the preachers appeared in publick with vifible figns , with implements of war , yokes of flavery , or fome- thing adapted to their fubject . They gave lectures on thefe , held them up to view , girded them on , broke ...
Page xlii
... fome chriftians to have been only a local or tem- porary prohibition . Let me have the honour of faying one word here , by way of apology for the preaching part of the fair fex . They revere the authority of S. Paul : but they ...
... fome chriftians to have been only a local or tem- porary prohibition . Let me have the honour of faying one word here , by way of apology for the preaching part of the fair fex . They revere the authority of S. Paul : but they ...
Page xliv
... fome good minifter , and fome- times a homily , that had been preached by the ( 7 ) bishop of the church . We have great obligations to primitive notaries , for they very early addreffed themselves to take down the homilies of publick ...
... fome good minifter , and fome- times a homily , that had been preached by the ( 7 ) bishop of the church . We have great obligations to primitive notaries , for they very early addreffed themselves to take down the homilies of publick ...
Page xlv
... fome of their customs . It might do fome drowfy folks good to be alarmed every five or ten minutes with - Mind what you are about - Let us liften - Attend to the word of God . Some affirm , that all the primitive bishops preached in a ...
... fome of their customs . It might do fome drowfy folks good to be alarmed every five or ten minutes with - Mind what you are about - Let us liften - Attend to the word of God . Some affirm , that all the primitive bishops preached in a ...
Page xlvi
... fome good preachers might not have cloaths fit to appear in , efpecially the itinerant brethren , fuch as the apoftles , and others after them , who travelled and preached . Would it be wonderful , if a congregation had kept a decent ...
... fome good preachers might not have cloaths fit to appear in , efpecially the itinerant brethren , fuch as the apoftles , and others after them , who travelled and preached . Would it be wonderful , if a congregation had kept a decent ...
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Page 450 - Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ; for it is God that worketh in you to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Page 378 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Page xlv - And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Page 500 - we are more than conquerors, through *' him that loved us. For I am perfuaded, *e that neither death, nor life, nor angels, " nor principalities, nor powers, nor things *' prefent, nor things to come, nor height, " nor depth, nor any other creature, mafl " be able to feparate us from the love of " God, which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord.
Page 429 - and dwell in the uttermoft parts of the fea ; " even there fhall thy hand lead me, and thy right
Page 328 - 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 effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 54 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 449 - Lord, have we not prophefied in thy name ? and in thy name have caft out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works ? 23 And then will I profefs unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 79 - If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Page xxiii - ... or temporary gallery, where, in a wing on the right hand of the pulpit, sat .six of the principal preachers ; and in another, on the left, seven. Thirteen other principal teachers, and many Levites, were present also on scaffolds erected for the purpose, alternately to officiate.