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1501 3, 36 | unless the reader be watchful and intelligent so as to understand 1502 3, 37 | seventh rule of Tichonius and the last, is about the devil 1503 3, 37 | last, is about the devil and his body. For he is the 1504 3, 37 | are in a sense his body, and destined to go with him 1505 3, 37 | Him in His eternal kingdom and glory. Accordingly, as the 1506 3, 37 | which is called of the Lord and His body, directs us, when 1507 3, 37 | Scripture speaks of one and the same person, to take 1508 3, 37 | statement applies to the head and which to the body; so this 1509 3, 37 | as in regard to his body; and his body is made up not 1510 3, 37 | Lucifer, son of the morning! " and the other statements of 1511 3, 37 | understood of the devil; and yet the statement which 1512 3, 37 | the one about the promises and the law, make one meaning 1513 3, 37 | peculiarity of figurative diction; and this kind of diction, it 1514 3, 37 | in the art of rhetoric. And when an expression of this 1515 3, 37 | or fewer external helps. And, as in the case of proper 1516 3, 37 | which I discussed above, and in which things are to be 1517 3, 37 | which one thing is expressed and another is to be understood, 1518 3, 37 | another is to be understood, and which I have just finished 1519 3, 37 | observe them carefully, and to remember them accurately, 1520 3, 37 | also, what is especially and before all things necessary, 1521 3, 37 | His mouth comets knowledge and understanding;" and it is 1522 3, 37 | knowledge and understanding;" and it is from Him they have 1523 4, arg | can be learned elsewhere, and ought not to be neglected, 1524 4, arg | behoves to excel in eloquence and power of speech. After detailing 1525 4, arg | detailing with much care and minuteness the various qualities 1526 4, arg | essential quality of style, and ought to be cultivated with 1527 4, arg | required for delighting and persuading the hearer. All 1528 4, arg | to forget to be zealous and diligent in study. He shows 1529 4, arg | the subdued, the elegant, and the majestic; the first 1530 4, arg | the second for praise, and the third for exhortation: 1531 4, arg | the third for exhortation: and of each of these he gives 1532 4, arg | selected both from Scripture and from early teachers of the 1533 4, arg | teachers of the Church, Cyprian and Ambrose. He shows that these 1534 4, arg | various styles may be mingled, and when and for what purposes 1535 4, arg | may be mingled, and when and for what purposes they are 1536 4, arg | purposes they are mingled; and that they all have the same 1537 4, arg | hear it with gladness, and practice it in his life. 1538 4, arg | pointing out the dignity and responsibility of the office 1539 4, arg | harmony with his own teaching, and to show a good example to 1540 4, 1 | ascertaining the proper meaning, and the mode of making known 1541 4, 1 | ascertaining the meaning, and have given three books to 1542 4, 1 | the compass of one book, and so finish the whole work 1543 4, 1 | rhetoric such as I have learnt, and taught too, in the secular 1544 4, 1 | in the secular schools, and to warn them that they need 1545 4, 1 | to be learnt elsewhere; and if any good man should happen 1546 4, 2 | falsehoods briefly, clearly, and plausibly, while the latter 1547 4, 2 | to, hard to understand, and, in fine, not easy to believe 1548 4, 2 | are to oppose the truth and defend falsehood with sophistical 1549 4, 2 | awe, to melt, to enliven, and to rouse them, while the 1550 4, 2 | of the truth be sluggish, and frigid, and somnolent? Who 1551 4, 2 | be sluggish, and frigid, and somnolent? Who is such a 1552 4, 2 | available for both sides, and is of very great service 1553 4, 2 | obtain the triumph of wicked and worthless causes, and to 1554 4, 2 | wicked and worthless causes, and to further injustice and 1555 4, 2 | and to further injustice and error? ~ 1556 4, 3 | chap. 3. The proper age and the proper means for acquiring 1557 4, 3 | But the theories and rules on this subject (to 1558 4, 3 | thoroughly skilled by exercise and habit in the use of many 1559 4, 3 | in the use of many words and many ornaments of speech, 1560 4, 3 | for the purpose at a fit and proper age. But only by 1561 4, 3 | should give attention to it; and even of these, not all who 1562 4, 3 | For men of quick intellect and glowing temperament find 1563 4, 3 | become eloquent by reading and listening to eloquent speakers 1564 4, 3 | following rules for eloquence. And even outside the canon, 1565 4, 3 | in writing, or dictating, and at last also in speaking, 1566 4, 3 | formed on grounds of piety and faith. If, however, such 1567 4, 3 | those who have learnt them, and who speak with fluency and 1568 4, 3 | and who speak with fluency and elegance, cannot always 1569 4, 3 | things that is, speak well, and, in order to do this, think 1570 4, 3 | And, therefore, as infants cannot 1571 4, 3 | except by learning words and phrases from those who do 1572 4, 3 | speech, simply by reading and learning the speeches of 1573 4, 3 | speeches of eloquent men, and by imitating them as far 1574 4, 3 | them as far as they can? And what do we find from the 1575 4, 3 | eloquent without having read and listened to the speeches 1576 4, 3 | listened to the speeches and debates of eloquent men. 1577 4, 3 | advantage of growing up and living among men who speak 1578 4, 3 | any one they listen to, and avoid it; just as citybred 1579 4, 4 | then, of the interpreter and teacher of Holy Scripture, 1580 4, 4 | defender of the true faith and the opponent of error, both 1581 4, 4 | both to teach what is right and to refute what is wrong, 1582 4, 4 | to refute what is wrong, and in the performance of this 1583 4, 4 | to rouse the careless, and to tell the ignorant both 1584 4, 4 | is occurring at present and what is probable in the 1585 4, 4 | are friendly, attentive, and ready to learn, whether 1586 4, 4 | doubtful requires reasoning and the exhibition of proofs. 1587 4, 4 | what they already know, and to bring their feelings 1588 4, 4 | needed. Here entreaties and reproaches, exhortations 1589 4, 4 | reproaches, exhortations and upbraidings, and all the 1590 4, 4 | exhortations and upbraidings, and all the other means of rousing 1591 4, 4 | And all the methods I have mentioned 1592 4, 5 | these coarsely, inelegantly, and frigidly while others use 1593 4, 5 | with acuteness, elegance, and spirit, the work that I 1594 4, 5 | undertaken by one who can argue and speak with wisdom, if not 1595 4, 5 | if not with eloquence, and with profit to his hearers, 1596 4, 5 | abounds in eloquent nonsense, and so much the more if the 1597 4, 5 | not worth listening to, and thinks that because the 1598 4, 5 | what he says must be true. And this opinion is held even 1599 4, 5 | frequently a positive injury, and is of service never." If, 1600 4, 5 | feel it who are the sons and the ministers of this higher 1601 4, 5 | mean by reading them much and committing them to memory, 1602 4, 5 | understanding them aright and carefully searching into 1603 4, 5 | For there are who read and yet neglect them; they read 1604 4, 5 | wishes, can repeat the words, and at the same time correctly 1605 4, 5 | the words of Scripture; and he himself, though small 1606 4, 5 | he himself, though small and weak in his own words, may 1607 4, 5 | words, may gain strength and power from the confirming 1608 4, 5 | but with eloquence also (and assuredly he will prove 1609 4, 5 | rather send him to read, and listen to, and exercise 1610 4, 5 | to read, and listen to, and exercise himself in imitating, 1611 4, 5 | especially if the men he reads and listens to are justly praised 1612 4, 5 | wise speakers with profit. And, therefore, Scripture does 1613 4, 5 | the welfare of the world." And as we must often swallow 1614 4, 5 | wholesomeness serviceable. And so there are writers of 1615 4, 5 | with eloquence as well; and there is not more time for 1616 4, 5 | for those who are studious and at leisure to exhaust them. ~ 1617 4, 6 | A question which to me, and to those who think with 1618 4, 6 | nothing can be more eloquent. And I venture to affirm that 1619 4, 6 | more becoming in youth, and a kind that is more becoming 1620 4, 6 | more becoming in old age, and nothing can be called eloquence 1621 4, 6 | claim the highest authority, and who are evidently inspired 1622 4, 6 | been suitable for them; and this itself would be unsuitable 1623 4, 6 | obscurity, too, of these divine and wholesome words was a necessary 1624 4, 6 | that all those powers and beauties of eloquence which 1625 4, 6 | to mould our characters, and to guide us from this world 1626 4, 6 | with the heathen orators and poets that give me such 1627 4, 6 | ostentatious display of it; and if they had shunned it, 1628 4, 6 | to be doing the latter. And in those passages where 1629 4, 6 | breast of the wise man, and eloquence, like an inseparable 1630 4, 7 | from the epistles of Paul and the prophecies of Amos~ 1631 4, 7 | the apostle meant to say, and how wisely he has said it, 1632 4, 7 | tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and 1633 4, 7 | and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope 1634 4, 7 | experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; 1635 4, 7 | unlearned, laugh at him? And yet here we find the figure 1636 4, 7 | Greek "klimax" (climax,) and by some in Latin gradatio, 1637 4, 7 | ladder), when the words and ideas have a connection 1638 4, 7 | experience out of patience, and hope out of experience. 1639 4, 7 | voice, which we call clauses and sections (membra et caesa), 1640 4, 7 | but the Greeks "koola" and "kommata", there follows 1641 4, 7 | patience;" the second, "and patience, experience;" the 1642 4, 7 | experience;" the third, "and experience, hope." Then 1643 4, 7 | of which the first is, "and hope maketh not ashamed;" 1644 4, 7 | given unto us." But these and other matters of the same 1645 4, 7 | wisdom naturally produced, and was accompanied by, eloquence. ~ 1646 4, 7 | gone out from the Jews, and had been trying to injure 1647 4, 7 | to injure his character; and being compelled to speak 1648 4, 7 | folly to himself how wisely and how eloquently he speaks! 1649 4, 7 | the second follows him, and yet he does not spurn it 1650 4, 7 | suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the 1651 4, 7 | false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings 1652 4, 7 | watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, 1653 4, 7 | fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those 1654 4, 7 | the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, 1655 4, 7 | not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I must needs 1656 4, 7 | infirmities." The thoughtful and attentive perceive how much 1657 4, 7 | there is in these words. And even a man sound asleep 1658 4, 7 | the Greeks call "kommata", and the clauses and periods 1659 4, 7 | kommata", and the clauses and periods of which I spoke 1660 4, 7 | make up the whole form and features (so to speak) of 1661 4, 7 | unlearned are delighted and affected. For, from the 1662 4, 7 | flesh, I will glory also." And the fifth has two: "For 1663 4, 7 | he returns to sections, and three are set down: "Thrice 1664 4, 7 | comes a clause: "a night and a day I have been in the 1665 4, 7 | false brethren, in weariness and painfulness, in watchings 1666 4, 7 | watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, 1667 4, 7 | fastings often, in cold and nakedness." After this comes 1668 4, 7 | care of all the churches." And to this he adds two clauses 1669 4, 7 | of inquiry: "Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, 1670 4, 7 | not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?" In fine, this 1671 4, 7 | concern mine infirmities." And I cannot sufficiently express 1672 4, 7 | sufficiently express how beautiful and delightful it is when after 1673 4, 7 | outburst he rests himself, and gives the hearer rest, by 1674 4, 7 | goes on to say: "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus 1675 4, 7 | knoweth that I lie not." And then he tells, very briefly 1676 4, 7 | the danger he had been in, and the way he escaped it. ~ 1677 4, 7 | prices are paid for them, and the vendors puff them magniloquently. 1678 4, 7 | puff them magniloquently. And I fear lest I too should 1679 4, 7 | teacher of the Gentiles. And certainly if we bring forward 1680 4, 7 | his bodily presence weak and his speech contemptible, 1681 4, 7 | confessed to be weighty and powerful. ~ 1682 4, 7 | only to commend the style. And I shall do so, quoting principally 1683 4, 7 | a shepherd or herdsman, and was called by God from that 1684 4, 7 | God from that occupation, and sent to prophesy to the 1685 4, 7 | of the spiritual sense; (and hence some passages are 1686 4, 7 | the proud, the luxurious, and therefore the most neglectful 1687 4, 7 | who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of 1688 4, 7 | of Samaria, who are heads and chiefs of the people, entering 1689 4, 7 | Israel! Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go 1690 4, 7 | ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath 1691 4, 7 | Gath of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms 1692 4, 7 | apart for the day of evil, and that come near to the seat 1693 4, 7 | lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch yourselves upon 1694 4, 7 | eat the lamb of the flock, and the calves out of the midst 1695 4, 7 | drinking wine in bowls, and anointing themselves with 1696 4, 7 | the costliest ointment: and they were not grieved for 1697 4, 7 | to be themselves learned and eloquent, despise our prophets 1698 4, 7 | our prophets as untaught and unskilful of speech, had 1699 4, 7 | deliver a message like this, and to men such as these, would 1700 4, 7 | who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountains of 1701 4, 7 | of Samaria, who are heads and chiefs of the people, entering 1702 4, 7 | unto Calneh," he says, "and see, and from thence go 1703 4, 7 | Calneh," he says, "and see, and from thence go ye to Hamath 1704 4, 7 | Gath of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms 1705 4, 7 | Calneh," "Hamath the great," and "Gath of the Philistine." 1706 4, 7 | And then the future captivity 1707 4, 7 | apart for the day of evil, and come near to the seat of 1708 4, 7 | lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch yourselves upon 1709 4, 7 | the lamb from the flock, and the calves out of the midst 1710 4, 7 | the lamb from the flock, and calves out of the herd." 1711 4, 7 | being repeated each time, and each clause finished by 1712 4, 7 | under the same pronoun, and forming three sentences, 1713 4, 7 | apart for the day of evil, and come near the seat of oppression;" 1714 4, 7 | lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch yourselves upon 1715 4, 7 | the lamb from the flock, and the calves out of the midst 1716 4, 7 | finish each clause separately and make six altogether, or 1717 4, 7 | at the first, the third, and the fifth, and by joining 1718 4, 7 | the third, and the fifth, and by joining the second to 1719 4, 7 | the fourth to the third, and the sixth to the fifth, 1720 4, 7 | another, the lascivious couch; and the third, the luxurious 1721 4, 7 | for the sense of hearing. And here, when he had said, " 1722 4, 7 | the flow of his invective, and not now speaking to, but 1723 4, 7 | speaking to, but of, these men, and to show us that we must 1724 4, 7 | to the sound of the viol, and think that ye have instruments 1725 4, 7 | the sound of the viol;" and then, turning to others, 1726 4, 7 | drinking wine in bowls, and anointing themselves with 1727 4, 7 | two members of the period, and comes to a pause on the 1728 4, 7 | which follows all these: "and they were not grieved for 1729 4, 7 | elegance we hold the words, "and they were not grieved," 1730 4, 7 | suspended on the voice, and then add, "for the affliction 1731 4, 7 | marvelous beauty not to say, "and they were not grieved for 1732 4, 7 | the injuries he suffered and the good return he made. 1733 4, 7 | the good return he made. And, indeed, I do not know whether 1734 4, 7 | that art which I learnt and used to teach. But how beautiful 1735 4, 7 | But how beautiful it is, and how it comes home to the 1736 4, 7 | And a number of other points 1737 4, 7 | it composed by man's art and care, but it flowed forth 1738 4, 7 | it flowed forth in wisdom and eloquence from the divine 1739 4, 7 | as certain very eloquent and acute men have perceived 1740 4, 7 | acute men have perceived and said, the rules which are 1741 4, 7 | not have been observed, and noted, and reduced to system, 1742 4, 7 | been observed, and noted, and reduced to system, if they 1743 4, 7 | eloquence suited to a character and position like theirs. ~ 1744 4, 8 | with a view to exercise and train the minds of their 1745 4, 8 | minds of their readers, and to break in upon the satiety 1746 4, 8 | break in upon the satiety and stimulate the zeal of those 1747 4, 8 | who are willing to learn, and with a view also to throw 1748 4, 8 | themselves with a useful and wholesome obscurity. They 1749 4, 8 | in after ages understood and explained them aright have 1750 4, 8 | deliverances to make it their first and chief aim to be understood, 1751 4, 8 | expression, but in the difficulty and subtilty of the matter they 1752 4, 9 | chap. 9. How, and with whom, difficult passages 1753 4, 9 | speaker may expound them; and these should never be brought 1754 4, 9 | draw their own readers, and if not understood, give 1755 4, 9 | do not care to read them, and in private conversations, 1756 4, 9 | may be to understand it, and whatever labour in the way 1757 4, 9 | desire to learn the truth, and should have capacity of 1758 4, 10 | polished forms of speech, and indifference about what 1759 4, 10 | with what dearly expresses and conveys the meaning intended. 1760 4, 10 | shortness or length of vowels? And what advantage is there 1761 4, 10 | words that do not teach; and if instead of them he can 1762 4, 10 | words which are at once pure and intelligible, he will take 1763 4, 10 | his thought be conveyed and apprehended in its integrity. ~ 1764 4, 10 | And this must be insisted on 1765 4, 10 | silent that one may be heard, and all faces are turned attentively 1766 4, 10 | he does not understand; and on this account the speaker 1767 4, 10 | understands what is said; and until some indication of 1768 4, 10 | ought to be turned over and over, and put in every shape 1769 4, 10 | be turned over and over, and put in every shape and form 1770 4, 10 | and put in every shape and form and variety of expression, 1771 4, 10 | in every shape and form and variety of expression, a 1772 4, 10 | words prepared beforehand and committed to memory. As 1773 4, 10 | acquaintance with them, and have not yet forgotten them; 1774 4, 10 | another man repeat them. And if a man has forgotten anything, 1775 4, 10 | learn ought to be taught. And the best mode is that which 1776 4, 10 | hears shall hear the truth, and that what he hears he shall 1777 4, 10 | hears he shall understand. And when this point has been 1778 4, 10 | not to lead to weariness and impatience. ~ 1779 4, 11 | be learnt, however rude and unpolished the form in which 1780 4, 11 | form in which it is put, and who, when they have succeeded 1781 4, 11 | truth pleasant food enough. And it is one of the distinctive 1782 4, 11 | analogy between learning and eating, the very food without 1783 4, 12 | is to teach, to delight, and to move. Of these, teaching 1784 4, 12 | as to teach, to delight, and to persuade." Then he adds: " 1785 4, 12 | a matter of importance. And as the hearer must be pleased 1786 4, 12 | order to move him to action. And as he is pleased if you 1787 4, 12 | you speak with sweetness and elegance, so he is persuaded 1788 4, 12 | drawn by your promises, and awed by your threats; If 1789 4, 12 | reject what you condemn, and embrace what you commend; 1790 4, 12 | heap up objects for grief, and rejoice when you point out 1791 4, 12 | him as objects of pity, and shrink from those whom you 1792 4, 12 | him as men to be feared and shunned. I need not go over 1793 4, 12 | before they can be moved. And perhaps the mere knowledge 1794 4, 12 | needful, it ought to be done. And it is needful when people, 1795 4, 12 | that a man may be taught and delighted, and yet not give 1796 4, 12 | be taught and delighted, and yet not give his consent. 1797 4, 12 | yet not give his consent. And what will be the use of 1798 4, 12 | is clearly pointed out (and this is the true function 1799 4, 12 | because it is the truth. And hence even falsities are 1800 4, 12 | they are brought to light and exposed. It is not, of course, 1801 4, 13 | to the art of pleasing. And yet even this is not enough 1802 4, 13 | men who both understand and are pleased with the teacher' 1803 4, 13 | both confesses the truth and praises the eloquence, if 1804 4, 13 | be carried into practice, and that is taught for the very 1805 4, 13 | as to give instruction, and please so as to keep up 1806 4, 13 | demonstrated to his own confession, and clothed in beauty of style, 1807 4, 14 | And so much labour has been 1808 4, 14 | but it is our duty to shun and abhor, many and heinous 1809 4, 14 | to shun and abhor, many and heinous deeds of wickedness 1810 4, 14 | heinous deeds of wickedness and baseness which wicked and 1811 4, 14 | and baseness which wicked and base men have with great 1812 4, 14 | of the Jews: "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed 1813 4, 14 | prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests applaud them 1814 4, 14 | applaud them with their hands; and my people love to have it 1815 4, 14 | people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end 1816 4, 14 | terrible from its purity, and the more crushing from its 1817 4, 14 | applaud the false prophet, and that God's people should 1818 4, 14 | we do in the end thereof? And assuredly it is preferable, 1819 4, 14 | intelligible, less pleasing, and less persuasive, that truth 1820 4, 14 | persuasive, that truth be spoken, and that what is just, not what 1821 4, 14 | be, unless what is true and just be expressed with elegance. ~ 1822 4, 14 | but which buries small and unimportant truths under 1823 4, 14 | even if used to adorn great and fundamental truths. And 1824 4, 14 | and fundamental truths. And something of this sort occurs 1825 4, 14 | redundancy of language, and confined him to a more dignified 1826 4, 14 | him to a more dignified and modest form of eloquence, 1827 4, 14 | the vine trees, pendulous and intertwined, creep amongst 1828 4, 14 | There is wonderful fluency and exuberance of language here; 1829 4, 14 | for he has done so once, and that he does not choose, 1830 4, 15 | And so our Christian orator, 1831 4, 15 | while he says what is just, and holy, and good (and he ought 1832 4, 15 | what is just, and holy, and good (and he ought never 1833 4, 15 | just, and holy, and good (and he ought never to say anything 1834 4, 15 | intelligence, with pleasure, and with obedience; and he need 1835 4, 15 | pleasure, and with obedience; and he need not doubt that if 1836 4, 15 | succeed in this object, and so far as he succeeds, he 1837 4, 15 | than by gifts of oratory; and so he ought to pray for 1838 4, 15 | ought to pray for himself, and for those he is about to 1839 4, 15 | before he attempts to speak. And when the hour is come that 1840 4, 15 | is about to pour forth, and to be himself filled with 1841 4, 15 | to every matter of faith and love there are many things 1842 4, 15 | things that may be said, and many ways of saying them, 1843 4, 15 | knows the hearts of all? And who can make us say what 1844 4, 15 | make us say what we ought, and in the way we ought, except 1845 4, 15 | Him in whose hand both we and our speeches are? Accordingly, 1846 4, 15 | is anxious both to know and to teach should learn all 1847 4, 15 | all that is to be taught, and acquire such a faculty of 1848 4, 16 | given directions to Timothy and Titus as to how or what 1849 4, 16 | they should teach others. And these three apostolic epistles 1850 4, 16 | read: "These things command and teach?" What these things 1851 4, 16 | thou hast heard of me?" And is he not there told: "Study 1852 4, 16 | dividing the word of truth?" And in the same place: "Preach 1853 4, 16 | with all longsuffering and doctrine." And so in the 1854 4, 16 | longsuffering and doctrine." And so in the Epistle to Titus, 1855 4, 16 | doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers?" 1856 4, 16 | the aged men be sober," and so on. And there, too: " 1857 4, 16 | men be sober," and so on. And there, too: "These things 1858 4, 16 | too: "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with 1859 4, 16 | things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. 1860 4, 16 | subject to principalities and powers," and so on. What 1861 4, 16 | principalities and powers," and so on. What then are we 1862 4, 16 | gives them directions how and what they should teach? 1863 4, 16 | will; for Thou art my God." And so the same apostle says 1864 4, 16 | which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing 1865 4, 16 | they cannot without His), and yet they are applied; and 1866 4, 16 | and yet they are applied; and if it be done from a sense 1867 4, 17 | give pleasure, or to move, and should pray and strive, 1868 4, 17 | to move, and should pray and strive, as we have said 1869 4, 17 | intelligence, with pleasure, and with ready compliance. And 1870 4, 17 | and with ready compliance. And when he does this with elegance 1871 4, 17 | does this with elegance and propriety, he may justly 1872 4, 17 | teaching, giving pleasure, and moving, that the great master 1873 4, 17 | things in a temperate style, and great things in a majestic 1874 4, 17 | three ends mentioned above, and had embraced the whole in 1875 4, 17 | order to give pleasure, and great things in a majestic 1876 4, 18 | do with neither of these, and where the intention is not 1877 4, 18 | between the former two, and are on that account called 1878 4, 18 | from modus (a measure); and it is an abuse, not a proper 1879 4, 18 | however, where all things, and especially those addressed 1880 4, 18 | reference to men's salvation, and that not their temporal 1881 4, 18 | their eternal salvation, and where also the thing to 1882 4, 18 | justice is never unimportant, and justice ought assuredly 1883 4, 18 | And when the apostle spoke about 1884 4, 18 | regard to secular affairs (and what were these but matters 1885 4, 18 | to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do 1886 4, 18 | saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged 1887 4, 18 | goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 1888 4, 18 | defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. 1889 4, 18 | ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Know 1890 4, 18 | apostle is so indignant, and that he thus accuses, and 1891 4, 18 | and that he thus accuses, and upbraids, and chides, and 1892 4, 18 | thus accuses, and upbraids, and chides, and threatens? Why 1893 4, 18 | and upbraids, and chides, and threatens? Why is it that 1894 4, 18 | in his tone, so frequent and so abrupt, testify to the 1895 4, 18 | sake of justice, charity, and piety, which in the judgment 1896 4, 18 | deliver us from eternal misery and bring us to eternal happiness; 1897 4, 18 | us to eternal happiness; and wherever these truths are 1898 4, 18 | water is a very trifling and common thing, the saying 1899 4, 18 | reward, is very trivial and unimportant. Or that when 1900 4, 18 | subject very unimportant, and therefore speak without 1901 4, 18 | power, but in a subdued and humble style. Is it not 1902 4, 18 | this subject to the people, and the presence of God is with 1903 4, 19 | And yet, while our teacher ought 1904 4, 19 | something is to be done, and we are speaking to those 1905 4, 19 | be spoken of with power, and in a manner calculated to 1906 4, 19 | calculated to sway the mind. And sometimes the same important 1907 4, 19 | importance is being urged, and powerfully when we are forcing 1908 4, 19 | averse to the truth to turn and embrace it. For is there 1909 4, 19 | what a field for beauty and splendour of language opens 1910 4, 19 | to speak out with power and impressiveness, show how 1911 4, 19 | great a wickedness this is, and urge men to flee from it. ~ 1912 4, 20 | is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which 1913 4, 20 | Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 1914 4, 20 | is the mother of us all;" and so on. And in the same way 1915 4, 20 | mother of us all;" and so on. And in the same way where he 1916 4, 20 | thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises 1917 4, 20 | promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but 1918 4, 20 | of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 1919 4, 20 | thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, 1920 4, 20 | which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot 1921 4, 20 | to Abraham by promise." And because it might possibly 1922 4, 20 | anticipates this objection and asks, "Wherefore then serveth 1923 4, 20 | Wherefore then serveth the law?" And the answer is given: "It 1924 4, 20 | whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels 1925 4, 20 | of one; but God is one." And here an objection occurs 1926 4, 20 | He answers: "God forbid." And he also states the reason 1927 4, 20 | interpret what is obscure, and to unravel the difficulties 1928 4, 20 | disturb what we cannot remove. And besides, when out of one 1929 4, 20 | question other questions arise, and out of these again still 1930 4, 20 | if these be all discussed and solved, the reasoning is 1931 4, 20 | be exceedingly powerful and active, the reasoner finds 1932 4, 20 | be urged should be stated and refuted, lest it turn up 1933 4, 20 | entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 1934 4, 20 | the younger as sisters." And also in these: "I beseech 1935 4, 20 | your reasonable service." And almost the whole of this 1936 4, 20 | temperate style of eloquence; and those parts of it are the 1937 4, 20 | which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with 1938 4, 20 | with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 1939 4, 20 | mind one towards another." And how gracefully all this 1940 4, 20 | condescend to men of low estate!" And a little afterwards: "Render 1941 4, 20 | honour to whom honour." And these also, though expressed 1942 4, 20 | but to love one another." And a little farther on: "The 1943 4, 20 | off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour 1944 4, 20 | the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering 1945 4, 20 | drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife 1946 4, 20 | wantonness, not in strife and envying: but put ye on the 1947 4, 20 | on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the 1948 4, 20 | the order of the words. And how this sounds in the Greek 1949 4, 20 | And, indeed, I must confess 1950 4, 20 | sentences of these writers and arrange them according to 1951 4, 20 | retaining the words he finds and altering their arrangement), 1952 4, 20 | schools of the grammarians and rhetoricians to consider 1953 4, 20 | consider of importance; and he will find in them many 1954 4, 20 | weight from these divine and authoritative utterances. 1955 4, 20 | me than it is to others, and than that of others is to 1956 4, 20 | on by its own vehemence; and the force of the thought, 1957 4, 20 | weapons adorned with gold and jewels, he works feats of 1958 4, 20 | but because they are arms; and yet the same man does great 1959 4, 20 | ministry of the gospel, and sustained by the consolations 1960 4, 20 | It is a great subject, and is treated with power, and 1961 4, 20 | and is treated with power, and the ornaments of speech 1962 4, 20 | righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honour and 1963 4, 20 | and on the left, by honour and dishonour, by evil report 1964 4, 20 | dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, 1965 4, 20 | good report: as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and 1966 4, 20 | and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, 1967 4, 20 | yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, 1968 4, 20 | we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, 1969 4, 20 | rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." 1970 4, 20 | our heart is enlarged," and so on; it would be tedious 1971 4, 20 | And in the same way, writing 1972 4, 20 | reliance on the help of God. And he treats this subject with 1973 4, 20 | subject with both power and beauty: "We know," he says, " 1974 4, 20 | predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He 1975 4, 20 | them He also justified; and whom He justified, them 1976 4, 20 | powerful: "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 1977 4, 20 | observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid 1978 4, 20 | and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, 1979 4, 20 | gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation which was 1980 4, 20 | plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am 1981 4, 20 | always in a good thing, and not only when I am preset 1982 4, 20 | be present with you now, and to change my voice; for 1983 4, 20 | or of sonorous clauses, and sections, and periods? Yet, 1984 4, 20 | sonorous clauses, and sections, and periods? Yet, notwithstanding, 1985 4, 21 | church, especially Ambrose and Cyprian~ 1986 4, 21 | clear, are yet profound, and are so written that one 1987 4, 21 | thoroughly, must not only read and hear them, but must have 1988 4, 21 | the knowledge of divine and saving truth, and have ministered 1989 4, 21 | divine and saving truth, and have ministered it to the 1990 4, 21 | down to us from the Lord, and to do nothing that our Lord 1991 4, 21 | Christ is wine, not water; and the cup cannot appear to 1992 4, 21 | by which we are redeemed and quickened, if the wine be 1993 4, 21 | blood which is foreshadowed and proclaimed in all the types 1994 4, 21 | proclaimed in all the types and declarations of Scripture. 1995 4, 21 | sacrament is foreshadowed, and our Lord's sufferings typically 1996 4, 21 | Noah, when he drank wine, and was drunken, and was uncovered 1997 4, 21 | drank wine, and was drunken, and was uncovered within his 1998 4, 21 | uncovered within his tent, and his nakedness was exposed 1999 4, 21 | exposed by his second son, and was carefully hidden by 2000 4, 21 | carefully hidden by his elder and his younger sons. It is