John Selden Quotes About Preaching

Quotes about: Preaching

• To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

  John Selden

  Love, Running, Men

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.48

• Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.

  John Selden

  Men, Roots, Tree

• Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

  John Selden

  Believe, Physicians, Disease

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.145

• Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

  John Selden

  Firsts, Preaching, Written

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.224

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