A Promptuary for Preachers

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Excerpt from A Promptuary for Preachers: Advent to Ascension Day, Containing Three Hundred and Thirty-Eight Epitomized Latin Sermons As much of its subject-matter as possible into that space, to preserve as many of its leading thoughts as the page would hold. For illustrative anecdotes and stories, with which many of our preachers are so richly stored, there was, of course, no, room their existence is alone indicated by a casual and unfre quent reference. Thirdly, to supply such a complete series of sermon notes, that from them a sermon upon the Gospel for the Sunday might be preached year after year without intermission hence no less than ten Sermons are given upon every Gospel. In addition to these, two or three have been added upon the Epistles, so that no scanty provision has been made for the Sundays and chief Festivals of the Christian year. Fourthly, to treat each sermon under analysis as forming SO many sermon notes, from which at any time the Editor would himself be willing to preach, adding sometimes certain references and. Subdivisions which appeared to be useful, either to complete the sense or to expand the meaning, at other times, reducing or wholly rejecting such particulars as were but remotely connected with it. In every case me has been placed in the foreground, and mere literary pretension has been thrust as far as possible out of sight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.