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OVer will avoid the usual error of retracing continually the same circle of commonplaces , without benefit ito any one . ' Beinhard then gives some examples from his own sermons of fhe mode in which he applied the foregoing principles . We extract a single specimen . On the seventh Sunday after Trinity , the Gospel for the day is from Mark viii . 1—9 , the miracle of the
multiplication of the loaves . This passage , considered in the way just described , furnished Reinhard with the following subjects for as many sermons : 1 . God can employ , and in fact does employ , feeble means and feeble instruments for the diffusion of rick blessings * 2 . Contentment is a virtue much more essential than is commonly supposed . 3 . In the manner in which God provides for our xvantSy there is always something marvellous . The
transaction recorded took place in an uninhabited country ; and this leads to the inquiry why Jesus preferred gathering his disciples round him in solitary places ; which formed the subject of a fourth sermon On the perfecting of the mural sentiment . It was a difficult thing , under such circumstances , to preserve order among so many thousand people ^ —hence a 5 th discourse On the secret empire exercised over men by the presence of virtue . On this
occasion Christ had only himself to depend on . 6 . under all circumstances , the Christian should reckon more on himself than on others . In the multitude many followed 'Jesus from impure motives , yet all were treated with the greatest kindness . 7 . Christians should give their full due even to the imperfect endeavours of others in good . The people imprudently tarried in a place where no means of subsistence were at hand . 8 . How miserable we
should be if God did not incessantly obviate the consequences of our otvn imprudence . Our Lord , on this occasion , satisfied at once the bodil y and spiritual wants of his followers . 9 . On the connexion which God has established between the need of nourishing the body by food 9 and the attention which is due to the culture and improvement of the soul . 10 . On the remarkable circumstance , that the Apostles never asked for miraculous
assistance from their master . The people in their zeal to hear Jesus ran the risk of famine , but \ V £ re happily preserved from it . 11 . The time which is wisely bestowed on the exercises of piety is not lost for our temporal interests . Our Saviour having detained the people three days , dismissed them at the time and in the manner most convenient : hence , 12 . How necessary it is to know when to stop even in the prosecution' of a good work .
. Here are twelve perfectly distinct subjects for sermons , drawn from the consideration , under various points of view , of one short passage of Scripture . In order to acquire this facility in the discovery of subjects , Reinhard recommends a close and constant study bf the history of the 'Bibfe , a comparison of thie rfecitais bf the different Evangelists , an exrict knowledge of the geography of Palestine , of tihe state of the country , and of the general history
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8 W > On the Studies and Public 'Ministry
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 800, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/8/
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