The Cure of Souls: Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale University, 1896A discussion of pastoral work and theology. |
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Page 219 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all.
Page 251 - ... too, as when it first began, Life is yet life, and man is man. For all that breathe beneath the heaven's high cope, Joy with grief mixes, with despondence hope. Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief; Or at least, faith unbelief. Though dead, not dead ; Not gone, though fled ; Not lost, though vanished. In the great gospel and true creed, He is yet risen indeed ; Christ is yet risen.
Page 219 - He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 270 - an innumerable company of angels, — and to the spirits of just men made perfect, — and to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, — and to God, the judge of all.
Page 250 - ALL people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice, Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell, Come ye before Him and rejoice.
Page 158 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 221 - Pastor : showing the Nature of the Pastoral Work, especially in Private Instruction and Catechising ; with an Open Confession of our too Open Sins. Prepared for a Day of Humiliation, kept at Worcester, December 4, 1655, by the Ministers of that County, who subscribed the Agreement for Catechising and Personal Instruction, at their entrance upon that work.
Page 223 - If the parson were ashamed of particularizing in these things, he were not fit to be a parson; but he holds the rule, that nothing is little in God's service: if it once have the honour of that name, it grows great instantly. Wherefore neither disdaineth he to enter into the poorest cottage, though he even creep into it, and though it smell never so loathsomely. For both God is there also, and those for whom God died...
Page 50 - ... and flavor his somewhat bare sentences with literature. If this ignominious tale be founded on fact, and be not a scandal of the enemy, then the Protestant Church ought also to have its index expurgatorius, and its central authorities insert therein books which it is inexpedient for ministers...
Page 221 - Gildas Salvianus ; The REFORMED PASTOR. Shewing the nature of the Pastoral work ; Especially in Private Instruction and Catechizing. With an open CONFESSION of our too open SINS.