Description - The Great Commission; Twelve Addresses on the Ordinal by James Russell Woodford
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...with matters like these? It is only as the mouthpiece, not of your own thoughts, bat of the Church to which you belong, that without the veriest presumption you can assume to speak of things so infinitely beyond your measure. And if this be so, then, secondly, whilst you gather strength from the thought of having the Church behind you for your support and stay, see to it most carefully that ycu neither go beyond nor fall short of the mind of the Church. On the one hand there is the use of certain expressions, of a phraseology which is not the phraseology of the Prayer-book, although it be in itself sound, although it may have been used by doctors of Theology, it is not the phraseology for you in the pulpit, or in houseto-house visiting. You may do irreparable harm to your influence, you may close up many a heart against you, by the employment of language which seems (though perhaps it does not really do so) to convey to uninstructed or suspicious ears the idea of strange doctrine. On the other hand, never attempt to water away the doctrinal statements of the Prayerbook. If here and there sentences occur which cut across some of your preconceived notions, which apparently exceed the truth as you bave learnt it, recollect where the sentences are, from what source they came, not from this or that man, but from this Church, as this Church again derived them from the Church Universal. What a cloud of shadowy centuries, of saints and martyrs, compass about those ancient words! They are the voice to you, not of one, but of many souls now with God. In the presence of those mighty speakers lift not up your puny utterance; feel that if you do not altogether recognize the force of what they have spoken, the fault must needs be in yourselves. Lift up your hearts to the...
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