The Preacher's Manual, Or, Lectures on Preaching: Containing All the Rules and Examples Necessary for Every Species of Pulpit Address, Volume 2Richard Baynes, 1834 |
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... better to say too much than too little . Some of our twenty or twenty - five minute preachers , however , think otherwise . Men are ever prone to extremes ; but the wise will take a middle course . In general , when the principle is ...
... better to say too much than too little . Some of our twenty or twenty - five minute preachers , however , think otherwise . Men are ever prone to extremes ; but the wise will take a middle course . In general , when the principle is ...
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... better ; they had a consciousness that the principles upon which our Lord spake and acted could not be contravened . Nicodemus's acknowledgment , and the well - known testi- mony of Josephus to Christ's character , are decisive of the ...
... better ; they had a consciousness that the principles upon which our Lord spake and acted could not be contravened . Nicodemus's acknowledgment , and the well - known testi- mony of Josephus to Christ's character , are decisive of the ...
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... better servants , and better subjects ? — And preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead . ' The apostles had too much love for the poor to puzzle them with words and disputes . They told the poor that they were to rise from ...
... better servants , and better subjects ? — And preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead . ' The apostles had too much love for the poor to puzzle them with words and disputes . They told the poor that they were to rise from ...
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... better than life itself . The most remarkable instance of his obe- dience was the offering up of his son - at least in intention —as a burnt sacrifice . Though Isaac was the son of his : old age , the only son of his beloved Sarah OF ...
... better than life itself . The most remarkable instance of his obe- dience was the offering up of his son - at least in intention —as a burnt sacrifice . Though Isaac was the son of his : old age , the only son of his beloved Sarah OF ...
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... is a somewhat similar passage in Hosea ii . 7 : I will go and return to my first husband ; for then was it better with me than now . " No man ever truly com- begins to repent of sin till he is convinced that 58 LECTURE XVII .
... is a somewhat similar passage in Hosea ii . 7 : I will go and return to my first husband ; for then was it better with me than now . " No man ever truly com- begins to repent of sin till he is convinced that 58 LECTURE XVII .
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Page 172 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 185 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 471 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 458 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 390 - And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Page 268 - For, the days, shall come upon thee, that thine enemies, shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee, one stone upon another ; because, thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Page 261 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Page 38 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 261 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 172 - For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.