Essay on the Composition of a Sermon ... Third EditionHatchard&Company, 1873 - 47 pages |
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allusion Apostles apparently nice distinctions application arrangement authority Bible CARLISLE character Christ Church composition congregation delivered desultory discourse doctrine dull thoughts-all eternal exhortation exordium faith FATHER fifty other texts-a figures merely decorative God's Word Gospel hearers hinder its elucidation Holy Scripture Holy Spirit importance introduction Isaiah Jerusalem Jesus Jesus Christ Jews leading idea leading word catches loses all Divine matter method mind missing their peculiar mode NATURE OF WORSHIP Octavo Old Testament particular light thrown particular passage pastor preacher prefatory professed subject Prophet Psalm PULPIT INSTRUCTION rejoice revelation sacred Samaria SAVIOUR Scripture with absolute seek the Lord selection SERMON AND PULPIT servant of God sidered simply committing ourselves SINNERS soul speak stamps speci style suggested teaching may depend text will throw texts-a sermon things tical tion treated true truth ture unto use:-upon the observance vated verse way-marks of Scripture Word of God writes a sermon
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Page 17 - For the Lord God is a sun and a shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 45 - MERCIFUL Lord, we beseech Thee to cast Thy bright beams of light upon Thy Church, that it, being enlightened by the doctrine of Thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John, may so walk in the light of Thy truth, that it may at length attain to the light of everlasting life ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 3 - Are you persuaded that the Holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity for eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ? And are you determined, out of the said Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge, and to teach nothing, as required of necessity to eternal salvation, but that which you shall be persuaded, may be concluded and proved by the Scripture? Answer. I am so persuaded, and have so determined, by God's grace.
Page 5 - For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel : not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Page 27 - Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what : we know what we worship : for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth ; for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Page 8 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Page 28 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Page 3 - Will you be diligent in prayers, and in reading of the holy Scriptures, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?
Page 10 - And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes ; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved : but truly, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
Page 4 - And be thou a faithful dispenser of the Word of God, and of His holy Sacraments : In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." The Bishop shall (then) deliver to every one of them the Bible, .... saying : "Take thou authority to preach the Word of God, and to minister the holy Sacraments in the1 congregation, where1 ["this."] thou shalt be so appointed.