A Puritan funeral sermon sets death in its true perspective. Most people think about their own death as a fearful prospect, but the title of a famous Puritan funeral sermon offers a pleasing ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Puritan sermons were not simply agents for theological debate, conscience, and self-control. Like any works of art, they encourage their ...
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Their most eloquent writing and preaching grew from a practical desire to communicate truth. Conversion is central to the Christian faith. From Jesus’ words to Nicodemus in John 3:3 telling him that ...
The solemn hour approaches. It will soon be just three hundred years since the Pilgrims let go their anchor off the coast of Cape Cod. A flood of oratory will surely descend upon us. The New England ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This bound quarto contains John Beach’s Funeral sermon, upon the decease of the Reverend Doct. Samuel Johnson, late ...
Much of the modern reputation of Lancelot Andrewes stems from an essay T.S. Eliot published in 1926, in which he ranked the sermons with ‘the finest English prose of their time, of any time’. Eliot’s ...