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Title: Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching
Author: Henry Ware
Release Date: August 13, 2008 [EBook #26308]
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HINTS
ON
EXTEMPORANEOUS PREACHING.
BY HENRY WARE, JR.
MINISTER OF THE SECOND CHURCH IN BOSTON.
Maximus vero studiorum fructus est, et velut praemium quoddam
amplissimum longi laboris, ex tempore dicendi facultas.
_Quinct._ x. 7.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS, HILLIARD & CO.
1824.
University Press--Hilliard & Metcalf.
TO
THE STUDENTS
IN THE
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
THIS LITTLE TREATISE,
WITH THE
SINCEREST PRAYERS THAT THEY MAY BECOME
PROFOUND DIVINES AND POWERFUL PREACHERS,
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Advantages of Extemporaneous Preaching
CHAPTER II.
Disadvantages--Objections considered
CHAPTER III.
Rules
PREFACE.
It is the object of this little work, to draw the attention of those who
are preparing for the christian ministry, or who have just entered it,
to a mode of preaching which the writer thinks has been too much
discountenanced and despised; but which, under proper restrictions, he
is persuaded may add greatly to the opportunities of ministerial
usefulness. The subject has hardly received the attention it deserves
from write
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