Short Sermons

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Excerpt from Short Sermons: Being a Plain and Familiar Exposition of the Apostles Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Angelical Salutation, the Commandments of God, the Percepts of the Church, the Seven Sacraments, and the Seven Deadly Sins The Hundred Short Sermons of Canon Thomas, now presented for the first time to the American public, may be said to constitute an epitome of Moral Theology, and of Dogmatic Theology also, so far as this is connected with Moral. The chief characteristics which mark these discourses are brevity, clearness, solidity, simplicity, unction, method and thoroughness. The Canon Penitentiary of Liege has much to say, and he says it well, without superfluity of words or circumlocution. He goes straight to the point, and deals seldom or but slightly in incidental matter, or in illustrations not directly pertinent to the subject. When you have read one of his Short Sermons, you have before you the skeleton of a much more lengthy discourse, with all its parts in their proper places, and the whole well knit together. He is terse and condensed, without becoming either dry or obscure. And withal, there is a simplicity and an unction in the style and manner, which attracts you onward, and prevents your growing weary. In a moral or devotional work this is a great recommendation. But what chiefly distinguishes the Short Sermons from many other works of the kind with which we are acquainted, are the qualities of method and thoroughness. 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.