A Charge to the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Ohio, on the Preaching of Christ Crucified |
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الصفحة 29 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
الصفحة 41 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...
الصفحة 43 - ... pleasure. To be full of the Holy Ghost in one's sermons as well as one's soul — to keep up the attention of the sinner as continually to His influences, for all the beginnings of spiritual life and all growth in grace, as to the righteousness of Christ for all reconciliation to God — is not only the way to be blessed with increase in our work, but to preach Christ as he preached himself. In the preaching of Christ, there is a text which a minister should, in some shape or other, be always...
الصفحة 10 - And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach JESUS CHRIST.
الصفحة 19 - Him became the distinct and the prominent object of my ministerial exertions; it was not till I took the Scriptural way of laying the method of reconciliation before them; it was not till the free offer of forgiveness through the blood of Christ was urged upon their acceptance, and the Holy Spirit given through the channel of Christ's mediatorship to all who ask Him, was set before them as the unceasing object of their dependence and their prayers...
الصفحة 19 - ... it was not till I took the scriptural way of laying the method of reconciliation before them ; it was not till the free offer of forgiveness through the blood of CHRIST was urged upon their acceptance, and the HOLY SPIRIT given through the channel of CHRIST'S mediatorship to all who ask him, was set before them as the unceasing object of their dependence and their prayers...
الصفحة 42 - This leads directly to the absolute necessity of a new birth unto righteousness, and makes the subject ot spiritual regeneration, its evidences and fruits, of conspicuous magnitude in the preaching of Christ. And this again introduces the sinner, now sensible of his disease and helplessness and necessity, to the only Physician. Then comes in the agency of the Holy Ghost. Christ is not preached in faithfulness, unless the Holy Ghost, "who proceedeth from the Father and the Son...
الصفحة 31 - Son, and of the Son in coming to be made a curse for us, can be preached only in view of the Son in the self-existence and infinite glory of the godhead. You cannot separate the Cross for which he came, from the Throne whence he came, without divesting his death of its atoning virtue...
الصفحة 58 - To excite the sensibilities by swollen representations, rather than to enlighten the conscience by sober and practical exposition of Scripture ; to produce effect by drawing lines of visible separation among the people...
الصفحة 60 - Ghost, to awaken, convince, convert, and sanctify the sinner. Behold your means in whatever will contribute to the teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ, Use such means, with importunate waiting upon God for his blessing ; and your ministry " shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season ; whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever it doeth shall prosper.