Three Essentials of Discourse
Testimony★★★★While the art of conducting a whole discourse by continued application is worthy your highest ambition, it will also be proper in your practice to intersperse some portion of this excellency of speech throughout every sermon. The importance of this essential of a discourse is most apparent. Observation marks your wisdom, argumentation your talent, and close address your Christian feeling. By the first you enlighten the mind; by the second you convince the judgment; and by the third you influence the will and affection.
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The point
The speaker advises preachers to incorporate observation, argumentation, and close address in sermons to enlighten the mind, convince the judgment, and influence the will and affection.
Audience
AdultsYouthSmall Group
Occasions
Preaching · Training
Tone
Instructive · Serious
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about 1 min · 61 words