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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON XLVI. CHRIST A PROPHET. THE MANNER OF HIS PREACHING. John vii. ;.?Jfevcr man spake like this Man. IN my last discourse I considered the second division of the proposed examination of Christ's prophetical character, viz. the Things which he taught. I shall now proceed to consider III. The Manner of his preaching. Concerning this subject I observe, that Christ preached, 1st. With perfect Plainness and Simplicity. By the plainness of Christ's preaching I intend generally, that he preached in such a manner, as to be easily understood by all, who were willing to understand him. Particularly, he used the plain, common, language of mankind, and, on no occasion, the technical language, customarily used by men of science, and extensively used at that period by all the votaries of the fashionable philosophy. That he has never used this language will undoubtedly be admitted by those, who read his instructions; there being not even a solitary instance of it in all his discourses. That Christ acted with entire wisdom, in this particular, is manifest from many considerations. The common language of men is the only language, which men, generally, can understand. If Christ had used any other language, particularly technical language, scarcely one of a hundred of those who heard him, or of those who react his discourses, would have been able to know what he meant. To all these the book, containing his instructions, would have been a sealed book; and almost every man, who read it, would have been obliged to say, I cannot understand it, foi I am unlearned. Nor would technical language have been of much real use to learned men. In Natural and Mathematical science this language has, I acknowledge, been employed with success; and that, to a considerable extent. Bu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217300032 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217300030 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.08 In |
| List Price | $32.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 484 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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