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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... thought , My mind yet vigorous , and my soul entire ; Thus will I think , averse to listen more To intricate discussion prone to stray ! ' It has been my great comfort to have been trained in the way in which it was best for me to go ...
... thought , My mind yet vigorous , and my soul entire ; Thus will I think , averse to listen more To intricate discussion prone to stray ! ' It has been my great comfort to have been trained in the way in which it was best for me to go ...
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... be fair ob- jects of criticism . Why not ? Perhaps they are not thought to be fair objects of criti- cism , and such seems the fact , simply be- cause they are new objects of criticism ; because their INTRODUCTION . vii.
... be fair ob- jects of criticism . Why not ? Perhaps they are not thought to be fair objects of criti- cism , and such seems the fact , simply be- cause they are new objects of criticism ; because their INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... thought it expedient to so- licit the attention of his parishioners towards the religious observance of Good - Friday , which he did by his public Letter to the inhabitants of Lambeth Parish . ' It may be useful to notice 6 this short ...
... thought it expedient to so- licit the attention of his parishioners towards the religious observance of Good - Friday , which he did by his public Letter to the inhabitants of Lambeth Parish . ' It may be useful to notice 6 this short ...
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... thought , taken some sad turn , would have laid down his life for his faith , has now joined the noble army of martyrs , and the glo- rious company of apostles and prophets and pa- triarchs . Having worn the wedding - garment below , he ...
... thought , taken some sad turn , would have laid down his life for his faith , has now joined the noble army of martyrs , and the glo- rious company of apostles and prophets and pa- triarchs . Having worn the wedding - garment below , he ...
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... a public speaker , Bishop Porteus was by some persons thought to be wanting in the quality of energy . His elo- quence , however , was peculiar to him . What in other preachers is called energetical , was in this 18 BELLBY PORTEUS , D. D..
... a public speaker , Bishop Porteus was by some persons thought to be wanting in the quality of energy . His elo- quence , however , was peculiar to him . What in other preachers is called energetical , was in this 18 BELLBY PORTEUS , D. D..
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.