[Rarebooks] FS: How to Preach an 18th Century Sermon

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Please consider:

Thomas Blackwell [the Elder, 1660-1728].  Methodus Evangelica: or, A 
Modest Essay upon the True Scriptural Rational Way of Preaching the 
Gospel.  London: Cliff and Jackson, 1712. Three-quarter black leather 
(edge-worn) with gilt bands (faded), marbled (all but worn away) boards, 
first 25 pp. with browning and foxing, binding tight.  ‘Being some 
Discourses upon the Homiletical, Textual, and Occasional Method of 
Preaching. Together with...Lecturing, and an Account of the Matter, 
Dialect and Frame conceived to be most proper for Gospel-Sermons...to 
point out the great Seriousness and Wisdom, which especially at this Day 
are so necessary towards Preaching and Adorning the Glorious Gospel.’  
Some suggestion of what to avoid in one’s sermons: ‘...an empty and 
shallow Way; which is, when there is a great Noise of Words, but very 
little of important Matter contained in the Same...as, when many Sermons 
are spent in explaining some exceedingly clear and obvious Truth, which 
all the Congregation already understand; or in proving some Point, which 
none of the Hearers in the least dispute or doubt of.’ Closely trimmed 
by the binder who evidently did not allow for marginalia.
A hard to find book.  100.00 USD

Cordially,

William Van Nest

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