Book, Chapter

1001   4,  10 |            blood), because they felt that it was important for the
1002   4,  10 |          instead of "os", if he fear that the latter might be taken
1003   4,  10 |            singular of "ora", seeing that African ears have no quick
1004   4,  10 |  understanding in the hearer, seeing that there is no use at all in
1005   4,  10 |         teaches will avoid all words that do not teach; and if instead
1006   4,  10 |            to him, he will use words that are not quite pure, if only
1007   4,  10 |              but when all are silent that one may be heard, and all
1008   4,  10 |              speaker has ascertained that what he says is understood,
1009   4,  10 |         dwells at length upon things that are already well known,
1010   4,  10 |             removed. For even things that are very well known are
1011   4,  10 |              or a reader. For things that are gracefully written are
1012   4,  10 |         taught. And the best mode is that which secures that he who
1013   4,  10 |           mode is that which secures that he who hears shall hear
1014   4,  10 |            shall hear the truth, and that what he hears he shall understand.
1015   4,  11 |         wooden one if it can, seeing that to open what is shut is
1016   4,  12 |          great orator has truly said that "an eloquent man must speak
1017   4,  12 |          teaching should not suppose that he has said what he has
1018   4,  12 |               he will not accomplish that end by putting his thought
1019   4,  12 |              no matter what, but for that purpose the style of speaking
1020   4,  12 |            over all the other things that can be done by powerful
1021   4,  12 |             will have such an effect that there will be no need to
1022   4,  12 |             to do. But who would say that it is their duty to do what
1023   4,  12 |               because it is possible that a man may be taught and
1024   4,  12 |             nor is it the intention, that the style of speech should
1025   4,  12 |          make the truth pleasing, or that the style should of itself
1026   4,  12 |             of course, their falsity that gives pleasure; but as it
1027   4,  12 |          pleasure; but as it is true that they are false, the speech
1028   4,  13 |          those who are so fastidious that they do not care for truth
1029   4,  13 |            what does it profit a man that he both confesses the truth
1030   4,  13 |              of securing his consent that the speaker in urging the
1031   4,  13 |           the truths taught are such that to believe or to know them
1032   4,  13 |         nothing more than to confess that they are true. When, however,
1033   4,  13 |              the truth taught is one that must be carried into practice,
1034   4,  13 |           carried into practice, and that is taught for the very purpose
1035   4,  14 |           expression here spoken of, that not only is it not our duty
1036   4,  14 |            Assuredly it is "a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces."
1037   4,  14 |             forbid, then, God forbid that with us the priest should
1038   4,  14 |       applaud the false prophet, and that God's people should love
1039   4,  14 |            it so. God forbid, I say, that with us there should be
1040   4,  14 |       pleasing, and less persuasive, that truth be spoken, and that
1041   4,  14 |            that truth be spoken, and that what is just, not what is
1042   4,  14 |             pleasure is derived from that species of eloquence which
1043   4,  14 |            which indeed says nothing that is false, but which buries
1044   4,  14 |           designedly with this view, that posterity might see how
1045   4,  14 |            teaching had cured him of that redundancy of language,
1046   4,  14 |          this style are apt to think that men who do not use it, but
1047   4,  14 |             this holy man shows both that he can speak in that style.
1048   4,  14 |            both that he can speak in that style. for he has done so
1049   4,  14 |             he has done so once, and that he does not choose, for
1050   4,  15 |     obedience; and he need not doubt that if he succeed in this object,
1051   4,  15 |            And when the hour is come that he must speak, he ought,
1052   4,  15 |           love there are many things that may be said, and many ways
1053   4,  15 |            to teach should learn all that is to be taught, and acquire
1054   4,  15 |        arrives, let him reflect upon that saying of our Lord's, as
1055   4,  15 |             it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall
1056   4,  15 |              speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of
1057   4,  16 |                  Now if any one says that we need not direct men how
1058   4,  16 |         teachers, he may as well say that we need not pray, since
1059   4,  16 |            of before ye ask Him;" or that the Apostle Paul should
1060   4,  16 |         approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
1061   4,  16 |            to Titus, does he not say that a bishop ought to "hold
1062   4,  16 |          word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound
1063   4,  16 |         which become sound doctrine: that the aged men be sober,"
1064   4,  16 |        himself, when, though he says that men are made teachers by
1065   4,  16 |             Or are we to understand, that though the duty of men to
1066   4,  16 |            Holy Spirit is given, yet that neither is he who planteth
1067   4,  16 |             learns aright the things that pertain to life with God,
1068   4,  16 |         ready to learn from Himself, that God who is thus addressed
1069   4,  17 |         giving pleasure, and moving, that the great master of Roman
1070   4,  17 |       himself seems to have intended that the following three directions
1071   4,  18 |             questions, the only ones that an address such as I wish
1072   4,  18 |           the former two, and are on that account called middling,
1073   4,  18 |              to men's salvation, and that not their temporal but their
1074   4,  18 |             eternal ruin, everything that we say is important; so
1075   4,  18 |            is important; so much so, that even what the preacher says
1076   4,  18 |         money, as our Lord says: "He that is faithful in that which
1077   4,  18 |               He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful
1078   4,  18 |              faithful also in much." That which is least, then, is
1079   4,  18 |        little; but to be faithful in that which is least is great.
1080   4,  18 |          nature of the circle, viz., that all lines drawn from the
1081   4,  18 |             the same in a great disk that it is in the smallest coin;
1082   4,  18 |           the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the
1083   4,  18 |        smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How
1084   4,  18 |         angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? If,
1085   4,  18 |             to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man
1086   4,  18 |           man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between
1087   4,  18 |             to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
1088   4,  18 |              wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Know ye not
1089   4,  18 |           your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
1090   4,  18 |           kingdom of God?" Why is it that the apostle is so indignant,
1091   4,  18 |         apostle is so indignant, and that he thus accuses, and upbraids,
1092   4,  18 |             and threatens? Why is it that the changes in his tone,
1093   4,  18 |         emotion? Why is it, in fine, that he speaks in a tone so exalted
1094   4,  18 |        indeed we are prepared to say that, because a cup of cold water
1095   4,  18 |               the saying of our Lord that he who gives a cup of cold
1096   4,  18 |          trivial and unimportant. Or that when a preacher takes this
1097   4,  18 |            style. Is it not the case that when we happen to speak
1098   4,  18 |       presence of God is with us, so that what we say is not altogether
1099   4,  18 |            of fire springs up out of that cold water which inflames
1100   4,  19 |           when we are forcing a mind that is averse to the truth to
1101   4,  19 |        method of calm discussion, so that in regard to a subject which
1102   4,  19 |       instead of being instructed so that he may learn something?
1103   4,  20 |          where he says: "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law,
1104   4,  20 |              law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; the
1105   4,  20 |              Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed
1106   4,  20 |              say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of
1107   4,  20 |              after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise
1108   4,  20 |             concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of
1109   4,  20 |        Christ might be given to them that believe." It is part, then,
1110   4,  20 |           extended to such a length, that unless the memory be exceedingly
1111   4,  20 |       however, exceedingly desirable that whatever occurs to the mind
1112   4,  20 |             the mind as an objection that might be urged should be
1113   4,  20 |               by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
1114   4,  20 |          paying what was due, things that belong to each other are
1115   4,  20 |     differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether
1116   4,  20 |            on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or
1117   4,  20 |         teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation:
1118   4,  20 |        exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with
1119   4,  20 |            do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence;
1120   4,  20 |           ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.
1121   4,  20 |         without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to
1122   4,  20 |             which is evil, cleave to that which is good. Be kindly
1123   4,  20 |         curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with
1124   4,  20 |          rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind
1125   4,  20 |            who are better skilled in that tongue may determine. My
1126   4,  20 |             My opinion, however, is, that what has been translated
1127   4,  20 |               indeed, I must confess that our authors are very defective
1128   4,  20 |        authors are very defective in that grace of speech which consists
1129   4,  20 |          know. This I know, however, that if any one who is skilled
1130   4,  20 |          arrangement), he will learn that these divinely-inspired
1131   4,  20 |               But care must be taken that, while adding harmony, we
1132   4,  20 |             of is most fully learnt, that Jerome, a very learned man,
1133   4,  20 |            it is to others, and than that of others is to me), while
1134   4,  20 |           just spoken of, chiefly in that it is not so much decked
1135   4,  20 |             nearly all the ornaments that the other does; but if they
1136   4,  20 |             any beauty of expression that comes in its way. It is
1137   4,  20 |             is enough for its object that warmth of feeling should
1138   4,  20 |          furnishes him with a weapon that he digs out of the ground.
1139   4,  20 |          following passage is urging that, for the sake of the ministry
1140   4,  20 |              no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed:
1141   4,  20 |              to the Romans, he urges that the persecutions of this
1142   4,  20 |         beauty: "We know," he says, "that all things work together
1143   4,  20 |            together for good to them that love God, to them who are
1144   4,  20 |             to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn
1145   4,  20 |            who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son,
1146   4,  20 |             of Gods elect? It is God that justifieth; who is he that
1147   4,  20 |           that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ
1148   4,  20 |             condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that
1149   4,  20 |              that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even
1150   4,  20 |              conquerors, through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded,
1151   4,  20 |              us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
1152   4,  20 |           passage of so much feeling that, not withstanding the absence
1153   4,  20 |               For I bear you record, that, if it had been possible,
1154   4,  20 |              they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But
1155   4,  20 |             a glow of strong emotion that makes us feel the fervour
1156   4,  21 |         profound, and are so written that one who is not content with
1157   4,  21 |       question. "Observe," he says, "that we are instructed, in presenting
1158   4,  21 |              Lord, and to do nothing that our Lord has not first done
1159   4,  21 |            not first done for us: so that the cup which is offered
1160   4,  21 |           the true vine,' it follows that the blood of Christ is wine,
1161   4,  21 |            blood of Christ typified, that blood which is foreshadowed
1162   4,  21 |            of Scripture. For we find that in the book of Genesis this
1163   4,  21 |     necessary to observe this point, that Noah, foreshadowing the
1164   4,  21 |            he blessed Abraham.' Now, that Melchizedek was a type of
1165   4,  21 |             and in all of the letter that follows, the subdued style
1166   4,  21 |       message he had heard from God, that, though thousands of the
1167   4,  21 |            with the end of the staff that was in his hand, there rose
1168   4,  21 |          this sign seems to indicate that the rock was a type of the
1169   4,  21 |              written, 'They drank of that spiritual rock that followed
1170   4,  21 |         drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that
1171   4,  21 |              that followed them, and that rock was Christ;' this,
1172   4,  21 |             people. And so it was at that time declared in a mystery
1173   4,  21 |           time declared in a mystery that the Lord Jesus, when crucified,
1174   4,  21 |              And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting;
1175   4,  21 |           out of it, this was a sign that our Lord's flesh, filled
1176   4,  21 |             only those haunts of men that pity would not blush for,
1177   4,  21 |           nor her voice petulant; so that her outward appearance is
1178   4,  21 |            show at the very entrance that there is no dark recess
1179   4,  21 |           great importance, requires that the mind should be excited
1180   4,  21 |           deportment of virgins. Yet that great bishop urges them
1181   4,  21 |             should depict in colours that rival nature's the features
1182   4,  21 |          completion of some man, and that, when the portrait had been
1183   4,  21 |               Dost thou, then, think that thou wilt carry off with
1184   4,  21 |             artifices? For, granting that thou art not immodest in
1185   4,  21 |           behaviour towards men, and that thou art not polluted in
1186   4,  21 |              an adulteress. The fact that thou considerest thyself
1187   4,  21 |            Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as
1188   4,  21 |          colour of thy hair: I would that, with a prophetic look to
1189   4,  21 |             be too long to quote all that follows. ~
1190   4,  21 |            these incentives to vice, that women, in their fear that
1191   4,  21 |            that women, in their fear that they may not prove attractive
1192   4,  21 |      disapproval, to proclaim openly that they have incurred their
1193   4,  21 |              to please another prove that she has first been displeasing
1194   4,  21 |       ugliness can we find, O woman, that is more unquestionable than
1195   4,  21 |              own consciousness or in that of another? For he loves
1196   4,  21 |         sufficiently clear, I think, that this eloquence calls passionately
1197   4,  21 |               Accordingly, we notice that the style is neither subdued
1198   4,  21 |             speak it well, speak it, that is, judiciously, pointedly,
1199   4,  22 |            But we are not to suppose that it is against rule to mingle
1200   4,  22 |              interposition of matter that we have to treat in a quieter
1201   4,  22 |           return with good effect to that which must be treated forcibly,
1202   4,  22 |           sea. It follows from this, that the majestic style, if it
1203   4,  22 |           however, being referred to that style which is the prevailing
1204   4,  23 |         places where it is necessary that any particular style should
1205   4,  23 |             almost always, desirable that the introduction should
1206   4,  23 |         would be allowable, in order that the majestic when it is
1207   4,  23 |         styles whenever questions of that sort turn up; just as we
1208   4,  23 |         settled, or when some points that are susceptible of ornament
1209   4,  24 |             we are not to suppose on that account that he is speaking
1210   4,  24 |              suppose on that account that he is speaking in the majestic
1211   4,  24 |           dissuading the people from that civil, or worse than civil,
1212   4,  24 |              the vehemence of speech that I could command to root
1213   4,  24 |              when I saw their tears, that I thought I had produced
1214   4,  24 |              For the applause showed that they were instructed and
1215   4,  24 |             delighted, but the tears that they were subdued. And when
1216   4,  24 |          before the event proved it, that this horrible and barbarous
1217   4,  24 |          overthrown; and immediately that my sermon was finished I
1218   4,  24 |              besides I have observed that men show the effect made
1219   4,  24 |              such an effect on some, that they are not only pleased
1220   4,  24 |          blame. But no one would say that all who are thus delighted
1221   4,  25 |            all this we may conclude, that the end arrived at by the
1222   4,  25 |              disposed towards it, so that it is not necessary either
1223   4,  25 |             he persuades his hearers that what he says is true; in
1224   4,  25 |             style, he persuades them that his speech is elegant and
1225   4,  25 |               however, ought to make that end subordinate to another,
1226   4,  26 |             we are not to understand that these three qualities attach
1227   4,  26 |              speech, one to each, so that perspicuity is a merit peculiar
1228   4,  26 |             divine testimony, except that we wish to carry the hearer
1229   4,  26 |            carry the hearer with us, that is, to compel his assert
1230   4,  26 |        intelligible, is it not plain that he can neither give pleasure
1231   4,  26 |              forth applause so great that one can hardly believe it
1232   4,  26 |          subdued style. For the fact that it comes forth without either
1233   4,  26 |             destroying the falsehood that opposes it by the mere strength
1234   4,  26 |       frequent and vehement applause that waits upon men who speak
1235   4,  26 |               except by the pleasure that truth so irresistibly established,
1236   4,  26 |             necessary when he admits that what you say is both true
1237   4,  27 |             is the truth; yet we see that the truth can be preached,
1238   4,  27 |       preached, though not in truth, that is, what is right and true
1239   4,  27 |       deceitful mind. And thus it is that Jesus Christ is preached
1240   4,  27 |          Christ is preached by those that seek their own, and not
1241   4,  27 |              own, and not the things that are Jesus Christ's. But
1242   4,  27 |     whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but do not
1243   4,  27 |            not;" and therefore it is that men who themselves lead
1244   4,  27 |            learn to despise the word that is preached. Wherefore the
1245   4,  28 |         rather than by words; thinks that a thing is well said in
1246   4,  28 |              it is true in fact, and that a teacher should govern
1247   4,  28 |        Charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words
1248   4,  28 |               Now this does not mean that, when adversaries oppose
1249   4,  28 |           man a bishop ought to be: "that he may be able by sound
1250   4,  28 |             truth, but to be anxious that your mode of expression
1251   4,  28 |    expression should be preferred to that of another. The man who
1252   4,  29 |           who really takes the words that belong to another. For the
1253   4,  29 |            life. And so God has said that they steal His words who
1254   4,  29 |         deeds? It is not for nothing that the apostle says of such
1255   4,  29 |              such men: "They profess that they know God, but in works
1256   4,  29 |     Whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not
1257   4,  29 |           not ye after their works; "that is to say, what ye hear
1258   4,  29 |             ye hear from their lips, that do; what ye see in their
1259   4,  29 |          what ye see in their lives, that do ye not; "for they say
1260   4,  29 |            from this it would appear that even what they say, when
1261   4,  29 |           they say. Hence it happens that a wicked man who is eloquent
1262   4,  29 |          theirs, to whom belongs all that they say; and even those
1263   4,  30 |        temporal welfare of her race, that God would put fit words
1264   4,  30 |              they ought to pray both that they themselves may deliver
1265   4,  30 |             may deliver it well, and that those to whom they address
1266   4,  30 |              such blessings come, so that all the praise may be His "
1267   4,  31 |          however, give thanks to God that with what little ability
1268   4,  31 |          desires to labour in sound, that is, in Christian doctrine,
1269   4,  31 |            instruction only, but for that of others also.~