To what parliamentary decision does Atterbury allude in the subjoined extract from the dedication to Trelawney, Bishop of Winchester, prefixed to his Sermons in four volumes, 1723?
He spends Saturday and Sunday a-writing sermons and a-visiting his flock at Hornby; and at five o'clock on Monday morning he'll be guiding his plough in the Hope Farm yonder just as well as if he could neither read nor write.
Why is it, then, that you bore yourself by regarding Institutions and listening to sermons in your jeunesse?
The present volume contains eleven sermons on topics suggested by the title, and they are all worthy of being read beyond that peculiar circle of readers, known technically as the “religious public.
Just at this moment Knowledge comes up, and prevails on him to spend his time chiefly in hearing sermons and reading the Scriptures.
And what are all thesermons and theologies of that time in comparison with those great old monuments of Christian Art?
It possesses a preacher of the name of Plato, who has composed sermons which the Plato of antiquity would not have disdained.
However, Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople, maintained in his sermons that this would be justifying the folly of the Pagans, who gave mothers to their gods.
These are certainly among the most massive, and, as a consequence, most impressive sermons of the day.
An artist who goes out to find sermons in stones does so at the peril of converting his stone pile into his mausoleum.
His danger is excessive, if, having his sermons all ready, he makes it his task to find the stones to fit them.
Their example, however, infused some slight ardour into the established pulpit, and its sermons were no longer dull rechauffes of Epictetus, and substitutes for the Gospel, taken from the schoolboy recollections of Plato.
His sermons were often interrupted--stones were thrown through the windows when he preached.
The sermons were mostly about the pains and agonies of hell, the joys and ecstasies of heaven, salvation by faith, and the efficacy of the atonement.
Great sermons and great speeches are given only to people who have come from afar.
Chapin made his mark upon the time: his sermons read as though they were written yesterday, and carry with them a deal of the swing and onward sweep that are usually lost when the orator attempts to write.
His sermonswere carefully written, and dealt in the simple, every-day lessons of life.
A Welsh curate having preached several sermons which were considered superior to his own powers of composition, was asked by a friend how he managed?
As we go about in our neighborhoods; as we travel to and fro in the land, read the papers and listen to lectures and sermons on the subject, we find peculiar evils that exist to-day in American families.
In many of our old pulpits built during the seventeenth century, when hour sermons were the rule, and thirty minutes the exception, the shelf on which the glass used to stand may still be seen.
Though sermons are now generally restricted from three quarters to an hour's delivery, the practice of long preaching in the olden times in the west of Scotland had much prevailed.
Contriv'd to preach oldsermons next, Chang'd in the preface and the text.
He became Rector of St. James', Piccadilly, but his sermons and his theological writings were not considered quite orthodox.
I know a Wall Street broker who left St. Jude's church because Mr. Stanhope's sermons on Sunday put such a fine edge on his conscience that Mondays were dangerous days for him to do business on.
To use a trade phrase, sermons are firm, and I believe a moderate tax on them would yield an astonishing income.
My dear Ruth, sermons are a large fact in our social economy.
It WAS a shame to tie a girl like Dora to sermons and such like.
What is to take their place, when the last of those well-known sermons disappears from village shops and cottage shelves?
De Quincey was a favorite with him, and the sermons of Laurence Sterne he once commended to me as the best sermonsever written.
Hence, like his college lectures, his sermons were continuous and straightforward, and his hearers had the comfort of accompanying him to a goal which they and he constantly kept in view.
As early as 1744 Edwards, in his sermons on the Religious Affections, had plainly intimated his dislike of this practice.
Edwards preached other sermons of this type, but this one was the most extreme.
He does not say to him, "You are ABLE to preach fifty-two sermons a year.
Sermons in stones are familiar, but few take the trouble to dig them out.
Certainly none looks for sermons in a one-cent evening newspaper.
Read some of his sermons and other writings if you have the chance.
Some twenty sermons are attributed to him, seven of which only are considered to be genuine.
Deaf to the prayers of friends, to the sermons and warnings of the church, to the calls of duty, to the pleadings of his better nature, he is touched by the tree-toad.
Such sermons has she heard, So good examples seen, she will believe In the true God, and Christian faith embrace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sermons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
