...him a high character, which comes nearly up to Cowper's model of a good preacher, and has expressed him, " simple, grave, sincere, in doctrine uncorrupt, in language plain, and plain in mariner." The circumstance that the first five clergymen have been highly praised, without any notice...

...Preserve the church ! and lay not careless hands On sculls, that cannot teach, and will not learn. Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he...own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine...

...their discourses. " Would I describe a preacher," says the excellent poet whom I have before quoted, " Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he...own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine...

...of Piety. Spectators only on this bustling stage, We sec what vain desigru mankind engage. CfmnluU. , evaporate, and fall. Johnson. Vanity of Human Withei....persist to bid your sorrows fiow For fabled sufferers, one, I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. , Стерег. DESIGN, ¡n manufactories,...

...<tf Picfy. Spectators only on this bustling stage, We see what vain designs mankind eir^a^e. ChurduU. Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, anil own, Paul should himself direct one, I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his dtsiyn....

...careless hands On sculls, that cannot teach, and will not learn. Would I describe a preacher, snch as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. 1 would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere...

...their discourses. " Would I describe a Preacher," says the excellent Poet, whom I have before quoted, .'Would I describe a Preacher, such as Paul, Were...uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner : TJecent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture : Much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful...

...devoted zeal, and generous sacrifices, and unwearied toil in the holy service to which he was called ? " Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he...own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His masterstrokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt;...

...Preserve the church ! and lay not careless hands On sculls that cannot teach, and will not learn. " Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and ovr*. Paul should himself direct me, I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I...

...sculls, that can not teach, and will not learn. Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he ori They had indeed ability to smooth The shag of savage nature, and were each An Orpheu master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; , In doctrine...