The pulpit; or, A biographical and literary account of eminent popular preachers, interspersed with occasional clerical criticism, by Onesimus, Volume 11809 |
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... give this taste its right bent . Self - love does not flatter me into the belief that this series of clerical criticism is without its defects . I found much to do . There was in the highway of letters no way for me . I stopt at each ...
... give this taste its right bent . Self - love does not flatter me into the belief that this series of clerical criticism is without its defects . I found much to do . There was in the highway of letters no way for me . I stopt at each ...
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... give me at that day ! ” Here is the triumph of the preacher , when , kindled by piety , his people , full of faith , ele- vated heavenward , look only to their divine teacher . Viewed merely as a public speaker , Bishop Porteus was by ...
... give me at that day ! ” Here is the triumph of the preacher , when , kindled by piety , his people , full of faith , ele- vated heavenward , look only to their divine teacher . Viewed merely as a public speaker , Bishop Porteus was by ...
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... give proof , to ev'ry eye , Whoe'er was edified , himself was not ! ' He , therefore , will not hurry from his sacred station as if he felt fatigued by its demands , or was eager to meet the salutations of the vestry 42 PHILIP STANHOPE ...
... give proof , to ev'ry eye , Whoe'er was edified , himself was not ! ' He , therefore , will not hurry from his sacred station as if he felt fatigued by its demands , or was eager to meet the salutations of the vestry 42 PHILIP STANHOPE ...
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... gives addi- tional dignity to the pulpit . Tall and erect in his figure , and of an interesting countenance , his appearance is becomingly prepossessing ; his action is generally impressive , without diver- ging into impropriety ; and ...
... gives addi- tional dignity to the pulpit . Tall and erect in his figure , and of an interesting countenance , his appearance is becomingly prepossessing ; his action is generally impressive , without diver- ging into impropriety ; and ...
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... of supplication , and distinctness of enunciation , are the qualifications he should most cultivate . If his heart be but serious , it will give light to his understanding , and to his manner an awful dignity 60 JOHN HEWLETT , B. D..
... of supplication , and distinctness of enunciation , are the qualifications he should most cultivate . If his heart be but serious , it will give light to his understanding , and to his manner an awful dignity 60 JOHN HEWLETT , B. D..
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Page 238 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 27 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page vi - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 50 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
Page 161 - I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 292 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Page 91 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 290 - That now this good time,• there might be four or five principal prisoners more released • those were the four evangelists and the apostle St. Paul, who had been long shut up in an unknown tongue, as it were in prison ; so as they could not converse with the common people. The Queen answered very gravely, " That it was best first to inquire of them, whether they would be released or no.
Page 182 - He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and to address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God's commission to the heart.
Page 178 - ... hand, and fighting under thy banners, open thou their eyes to behold in every valley, and in every plain, what the prophet beheld by the same illumination, chariots of fire and horses of fire.