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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... natural consequence of such patronage , and , what is not always the case , was as eminently deserved as it was honor- ably conferred . The public experience of nearly half a century has now ratified this exertion of private munificence ...
... natural consequence of such patronage , and , what is not always the case , was as eminently deserved as it was honor- ably conferred . The public experience of nearly half a century has now ratified this exertion of private munificence ...
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... natural consequence of those exertions , on his part , which had been so pro- pitiously discovered and fortunately estimated . If indeed unaffected orthodoxy , in any church , lays not the strongest claim to promotion , espe- cially ...
... natural consequence of those exertions , on his part , which had been so pro- pitiously discovered and fortunately estimated . If indeed unaffected orthodoxy , in any church , lays not the strongest claim to promotion , espe- cially ...
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... nature drops ; calm all her fears , Wake all her hopes , and animate her faith , Till the rapt soul , anticipating Heaven , Bursts from the thraldom of incumbring clay , And , on the wing of ecstacy up borne , Springs into liberty and ...
... nature drops ; calm all her fears , Wake all her hopes , and animate her faith , Till the rapt soul , anticipating Heaven , Bursts from the thraldom of incumbring clay , And , on the wing of ecstacy up borne , Springs into liberty and ...
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... nature still turns her deafened ear to the voice of the spiritual charmer ; since , though he speak as it were with the tongue of an angel , the preacher is frequently unheeded , -is it difficult to conjecture the injury resulting to ...
... nature still turns her deafened ear to the voice of the spiritual charmer ; since , though he speak as it were with the tongue of an angel , the preacher is frequently unheeded , -is it difficult to conjecture the injury resulting to ...
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... nature of his voice ; and , perhaps , it is this cir- cumstance that casually attaches to his delivery the appearance of its being premeditated . His language is excellent , his deportment exemplary ; and , what cannot too frequently be ...
... nature of his voice ; and , perhaps , it is this cir- cumstance that casually attaches to his delivery the appearance of its being premeditated . His language is excellent , his deportment exemplary ; and , what cannot too frequently be ...
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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.