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SPECIMENS OF A NEW, SIMPLE, AND IMPARTIAL TRANSLATION OF THE GOSPELS IN A HARMONIZED FORM, WITH SHORT INCIDENTAL NOTES, BY A LAYMAN.
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avoid revolting an audience by awkward and painful mannerism , and to _ draw and rivet the attention , if not to win the heart . This power has , I fear , been underrated by some , by those who have had and used influence in the education of our ministers . A greater mistake could , not be easily committed . Why do ministers preach but to enlighten , to rouse , to sway . For what mainly is their in « nVen ~ ce ~ m ™ th e ~ r ^
and how can these great functions be discharged , except in the way in which excellence of all kinds is secured , by systematic instructions , by practice , by a high estimate of its importance and ceaseless efforts after increased excellence ? Delivery , said the great master of oratory , is the first and last requisite in the orator , and excellence in preaching is likewise the first and last requisite , and should be the object of his earliest and latest care in . the Christian minister .
But no system of education , no rules of art , no practice in pulpit duties can make the students or the minister a ' man of God . ' Learning may be thus acquired , talent may be thus developed , skill- may be thus attained , but beyond and above , immeasurably above all these qualifications is one which is of such value , that without it all others are of little service , and with it almost
alone a minister would in some circumstances be largely useful , —• I allude to excellence of-character . This should be the basis , and this the top-stone ^ and for this no pains should be spared . But they are pains , which , for the most part , must be undergone by each individual for himself . It is not the gift of public institutions , but the acquirement of the closet , the footstool , the result of hours and years of active labour ..
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TRANSLATION OF THE GOSPELS . 169
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{ Continued from page 144 . ) JESUS AT THE PENTECOST , CURES AN INFIRM MAN AT BETHESDA , AND AFTERWARDS DISCOURSES WITH THE JEWS CONCERNING HIS MISSION .
John v , After these things there was a feast of the Jews , [ probably the PentecQst , ] and . Jesus went up to Jerusalem . Now \ ty there is in Jerusalem at the sheep-gate , [ see Nehe ' miah yr * 24 iii . 1 , ] a bath ,, which is called in Hebrew , Bethesda , ay having five porches . In these lay a great multitude of infirm people , blind , lame , and withered / * awaiting the ' motion of the water . For an angel occasionally went down into the bath , and troubled the water ; wherefore the first , who went in after the troubling of the water , was made whole for restored to sound
Specimens Of A New, Simple, And Impartial Translation Of The Gospels In A Harmonized Form, With Short Incidental Notes, By A Layman.
SPECIMENS OF A NEW , SIMPLE , AND IMPARTIAL TRANSLATION OF THE GOSPELS IN A HARMONIZED FORM , WITH SHORT INCIDENTAL NOTES , BY A LAYMAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1833, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2615/page/9/
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