Poems on Various Subjects: And on Several Occasions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Contents. Page. Address to the Reader, 5 Subscribers' Names, 9 Introduction to the Art of Preaching, 17 The Art of Preaching, Exordium, 20 Rule I. Preaching to be plain 27 1. Hard words to be avoided, ib. 2. Wild and mysterious thoughts and notions, 29 3. Rhetorical flights of fancy, 31 4. Crabbed sentences and old-fashioned phrases 32 Rule II. Preaching to be practical, 35 1. Precept and practice not to be separated,. 36 2. Speculation to give way to practice, 37 3. God's attributes to be descanted upon, ib 4. Religion notinconsistent with reason and faith, 39 and works not to be separated.

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