This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 edition. Excerpt: ...offend their modesty, not only to 'praise them in print, but even to publish their highest virtues. But now, upon the whole, as a great critic observes, that there is sometimes more beauty fliewn in a compofition, by receding from the rules of art, when an important point is to be gained, than by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 edition. Excerpt: ...offend their modesty, not only to 'praise them in print, but even to publish their highest virtues. But now, upon the whole, as a great critic observes, that there is sometimes more beauty fliewn in a compofition, by receding from the rules of art, when an important point is to be gained, than by strictly adhering to them: so, all these rules notwithstanding, it shall be allowable for any moderate man, upon an extraordinary emergency, to break them for a good end: as for instance, he may speak even in Whitesield's style, when his "settlement has the misfortune to depend upon the people; which I have known done with good success. "We are also well satissied, that Mr. T r of Norwich, and such like sirst-rate writers, should make pompous collections of Scripture-texts, as their truly laudable intention is, by altering Christianity, to reconcile it to moderation and common sense; and to sind out a meaning to words which the writers of them, as living in the insancy of the church, had not discernment enough to intend. To conclude this maxim, it would be too formal for me, and too tedious to the reader to enumerate' ail the objections that are, by some, raised against our way of preaching: I shall therefore mention but one, and shew it is salse; hoping that the Tender will suppofe there is no more foundation for any of the rest. It is alledged, there is no method in our discourses, but that they consist in random flights, and general declamations. Nothing more untrue. The polite reader, or hearer, knows that there may be an excellent and regular method, where there are no formal distinctions of sirstly, secondly, and thirdly; but, to cut osf all occasion of cavil, let the world hereby know, that one of our most samed preachers chose...
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