The Pulpit, Or, A Biographical and Literary Account of Eminent Popular Preachers ..., Volume 1Mathews and Leigh, 1809 - 367 páginas |
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... say , as the poet Shenstone makes bishop Latimer to speak , - Let me hoard with care , With frugal cunning , with the niggard's art , A few fix'd principles , in early life , Ere indolence impede the search , explored ; Then , INTRODUCTION.
... say , as the poet Shenstone makes bishop Latimer to speak , - Let me hoard with care , With frugal cunning , with the niggard's art , A few fix'd principles , in early life , Ere indolence impede the search , explored ; Then , INTRODUCTION.
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... say when we are to speak of the hope of faith . It is then that the speech should be all heart , and the heart all speech . Few are , however , such men . Enough there are of preachers of the good gospel ; ' but good gospel preach- ers ...
... say when we are to speak of the hope of faith . It is then that the speech should be all heart , and the heart all speech . Few are , however , such men . Enough there are of preachers of the good gospel ; ' but good gospel preach- ers ...
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... says Bishop Porteus , speaking of Archbishop Secker , " I owe my first establishment , and much of my subse- quent success , in life ; to whose instructions , virtues , and example , I am indebted for still more important benefits ...
... says Bishop Porteus , speaking of Archbishop Secker , " I owe my first establishment , and much of my subse- quent success , in life ; to whose instructions , virtues , and example , I am indebted for still more important benefits ...
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... says , in his Letter to the Inhabitants of Lam- beth Parish , " I am now addressing myself , but to Christians ; under which denomination I am willing to believe that the whole of this pa- . rish may be comprehended . You have not yet ...
... says , in his Letter to the Inhabitants of Lam- beth Parish , " I am now addressing myself , but to Christians ; under which denomination I am willing to believe that the whole of this pa- . rish may be comprehended . You have not yet ...
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... says , letters , novels , history , from the bulky quarto down to the meagre pamphlet , are every day scattering the seeds of irreligion on the other side of the Thames . You have not , I am persuaded , advanced near so far as this in ...
... says , letters , novels , history , from the bulky quarto down to the meagre pamphlet , are every day scattering the seeds of irreligion on the other side of the Thames . You have not , I am persuaded , advanced near so far as this in ...
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Página 31 - 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.
Página x - 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!
Página 54 - 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.
Página 358 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Página 182 - Him that sitteth upon the throne, and liveth for ever and ever," they will protect Freedom in her last asylum, and never desert that cause which you sustained by your labours, and cemented with your blood. And Thou, sole Ruler among the children of men, to whom the shields of the earth belong, " gird on Thy sword, thou Most Mighty...
Página 296 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Página 294 - 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.
Página 182 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose.
Página 186 - 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.