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£ SSA ¥ ON THE DELlVEftY OF A SERMOtf , To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , The following paper was written by a worthy and learned clergynian of the Established Chiirch . I was favoured with a perusal of it by the author , and have obtained his permission to send it to you for publication . YouPs , respectfully , Maidstone > May 3 , 1806 * R . Allchist . In the following essay I propose to inquire whether speaking from notes , or preaching written sermons , be upon the whole preferable ? In this question I avoid the phrase " extemporary
sermons , " because they are properly discourses on whictt no previous study has been bestowed ; and therefore in favour of such I have nothing to offer . But I speak of preaching froni notes , and suppose the preacher to have studied his subject , to to have arranged his thoughts upon it , and to have set down the heads oi it in notes which he takes with him into the pulpit : and I would inquire whether this practice be , or be not , in general preferable to that of completely writing out the sermon , and then reading it to the congregation . My inquiry is also
which of them is preferable in general ; for as many persons , even of great talents , may not be able to speak in public without embarrassment , writing of sermons must in their case be preferable tci speaking from notes . Added to this , as some congregations may be strongly prejudiced in favour of one of these modes against the other , that prejudice ought to have great tindthose
weight" in determining which of them , er circumstances , ought to be preferred . In pursuit of this inquiry , we must suppose the persons who adopt each of these modes to be equal in genius , in learning , and industry , at their entrance on the ministry , To decide this question , two points should be examined : first , which of these modes is likely to produce the best sermons ; and , secondly , which of them is likely to produce the best general effects both on the preachers themselves , and on the character of the clergy at large ? 1 * Which of these modes is likely to produce the best sermons ? As the end of preaching is not to please crilicsylHit
to instruct the ignorant , to convince those who are in etror , to awaken the careless , to confirm the weak , and , in a worcf , to edify mankind , those must be the best sermons which ai * e most likely to produce these effects . This should be carefully attended to , because this alone can furnish vis with a just crite ^
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VOL . I , 3 X
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/17/
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