Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching (Classic Reprint)

It is the object of this little work, to draw the attention of those who are preparing for the christian ministry or who have just entered it, to a mode of preaching which theW riter thinks has been too much discountenanced and despised ;but which, under proper restrictions, he is persuaded may add greatly to the opportunities of ministerial usefulness. The subject has hardly received the attention it deserves from writers on the pastoral office, who have usually devoted to it but a few sentences, which offer little encouragement and afford no aid. Burnet, in hisT reatise on the Pastoral Care, andF enelon in his Dialogues onE loquence, have treated it more at large, but still very cursorily. To their arguments and their authority, which are. of great weight, I refer the more distinctly here, because I have not quoted them so much at large as I intended when I wrote the beginning of the second chapter. Besides these, the remarks of Quinctilian, x. 7. on the subject of speaking extempore, which are full of his usual good sense, may be very profitably consulted.
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