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Three Restoration Divines: Barrow, South and Tillotson. Volume I

Selected Sermons

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Though twentieth-century readers may not value Tillotson’s sermons as highly as did the Bishop of Sarum, they will readily grant that he aptly defined the change that had come over pulpit oratory in England in the course of the seventeenth century. That the new style of preaching had come to stay appears from Thomas Birch’s slight alteration to this passage, which he quoted in the Life of the Author prefixed to his folio edition of Tillotson’s sermons in 1752: “He formed therefore [a patte...


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  • Publisher : Presses universitaires de Liège
  • Series : Bibliothèque de la faculté de philosophie et lettres de l’université de Liège | CLXXXI
  • Place of publication : Liège
  • Year of publication : 1967
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 03 septembre 2019
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-2-251-66181-0
  • Electronic EAN : 979-10-365-1641-2
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.pulg.3173
  • Number of pages : 510 p.

Part two

Against Foolish Talking and Jesting

Ephes. V. 4—Nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient

A Sermon upon the Passion of Our Blessed Saviour [Preached at the Guildhall Chapel on Good Friday, 1677]

Phil. II. 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross

Of the Evil and Unreasonableness of Infidelity

Heb. III. 12. Take heed, Brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief.

Of Justifying Faith

Rom. V. 1. Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ

Of Justification by Faith

Rom. V. 1. Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Of Obedience to our Spiritual Guides and Governours

Heb. XIII.17. Obey them that have the rule over you

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