Essays on the Preaching Required by the Times, and the Best Methods of Obtaining It: With Reminiscences and Illustrations of Methodist Preaching, ... Sketches of Olin, Fisk, Bascom, Cookman, Sum - Softcover

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Excerpt from Essays on the Preaching Required by the Times, and the Best Methods of Obtaining It: With Reminiscences and Illustrations of Methodist Preaching, Including Rules for Extemporaneous Preaching, and Characteristic Sketches of Olin, Fisk, Bascom, Cookman, Summerfield, and Other Noted Extemporaneous Preachers

In answer to this it is alledged that the apostles were miraculously endowed; that the gifts of healing and oi' tongues were imparted to them to qualify them for the work to which they were called, but as these miraculous gifts are not new imparted to the ministers of the Gospel, they must apply themselves to the aciluiring Of literature and philosophy as qualifications for their calling. Yet, in the various gifts bestowed upon the first preachers of the Gospel, we do not find there were included, either the knowledge of Rabbinical or Grecian learning or literature. Now surely cm' Lord knew what was necessary to them as messengers of that great salvation he sent them to proclaim; and that he could have as easily imparted to them all the treasures of Rabbinical and Grecian lore, as the gift of tongues - the knowledge of all languages. If he did not do so, we have a right to infer that the meta physical systems of philosophy, whether Jewish or Pagan, were not necessary to them even as auxiliary aids, much less as an essential qualification for their work.

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