A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

analogy Andrew Fuller appear application argument Aristotle attention audience Bible chap character Christ Christian Cicero common Comp conclusion course Demosthenes discourse discussion distinct divisions doctrine earnest effect eloquence employed English eral especially example excited explanation expository preaching expository sermons expression extempo extemporaneous preaching fact familiar fault feel frequently give gospel habit hearers Homiletics hymn idea illustration imagination important impressive instructive interest introduction Jeremy Taylor language Lect logical materials matter means ment merely method mind nature never object observed occasion orator particular passage pathy peculiar persons Phelps Phillips Brooks practical preacher preparation present principle priori proof proposition pulpit Quintilian reading reductio ad absurdum refutation religious remarks respect Rhet Rhetoric Scripture sense sion sometimes speak speaker style subject-sermons suggestions taste teachings tences text-sermons thing thought tion topics treatise true truth variety Vinet Whately whole words writing