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tumty tepmme # * m * - * te 4 & ? p&timteflf * & £$ **** ¥ * G * fr& $ ***? & * & Bim * $ -tbp f * b ? i * -: C ( w& pf * & ¥ Jtfwfiw f w %$ vwkU t # « £ tend ih $ fcet ^ ires o # Th ^ ogic ^ l ^ gr ^ i ty , pn ^ tor ^ J f ^ eplo ^ y , $ jfg . on H ? piilft $ . I w # s not # m ? e ^ ber 9 # f < any greqclyinf * sopiety { yrediger cpllegiyfri ) , ancj those who knew Witteinbei ^ , from 1773 to 1776 , are well awa fe that it \ V ^ s not wholly through myown fault that f wa ^ deprived of these assistances ^
By tloijiiletiky it is hardly necessary to observe , is meant the art of preaphing , or pulpit eloquence , which tfyus most properly formed , at Wittemberg , the subject of a separate course pf public instruction , Tb £ preaching societies in the Gernian universities are voluntary a ^ socifitipns of ^ tpdjent § ip djvinity , generally under the s ^ jper ^ ten d ^ nce of sonae jdisiinguisj ^ e ^ profe 3 ^ or pr clergy * man , for the purposepf exercising themselves in thea ^ t pf preaching , and othje ^ fune&Ofls of tte mipistry . We pan hardly
coaceiye of any institutions more admirably fitted than these to imbue young divines with the spirit of their profession , and to induce them to consider their learning as an instrument of public usefulness , urging them by all the incentives of a generous emulation , to bring all their attainments and their speculations to bear upon the great and sacred object of their futurp lives—the conduct of t ) ie human soul to truth , virtue , and happiness . In 1784 .
wfrij £ he was sfill a p rofessor at Wittemberg , and first p astor of the ^ Jniversity Church , l ^ , einfyard was earnestly solipited by a number of stu 4 an ^ to foecome the pregifjent pf a preachipg society , suid complied wUh £ h * eif feque ^ t . It co «^^ te 4 ° f sixteen ordinary , and a certain number of { extraordinary , members . The former presented weekly , each in his turn ^ the plan of a sermon , and ei g ht days afterwards a sern ? on composed upon this plan ; the others furnished only plans . The subjects were sometimes
the usual lessons from the Gospels and Epistles , and sometimes texts adapted tp particular circumstances . ' Two days before the meeting of the society the compositions were transmitted to the president , who read them , These meetings for criticism attracted a greajt number of auditors , fhe pjan , after being read aloud , was carefuljy fliscussed : Reinjiard proposed his ideas and
corrections , and often suggesjted another plan . In tj ) e sermon he demanded , as the principal qualities , soundness of reasoning , order find continuity in the ideas , ami a style that was simple and elevated , end void of all affected embellishments . He objected to the introduction of hypotheses into the pulpit , and , as contrary to his own practice , and to the Confession of Augsburg , any quojtation in proof of the views maintained , from the Apocrypha } books . Nothing coukj be more interesting trian his advice as to thje manner in which the preacher should yary the tone of his
address according to the subject . For example : in preaching on impurity , he recommen 4 ^ 4 M ? e P £ A 9 fl-dopt the language of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 739, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/19/
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