The Pastor And His People: Or, the Word of God And the Flock of Christ
The Pastor And His People: Or, the Word of God And the Flock of Christ
Thomas Joseph Potter
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He will conclude his instruction with a brief but earnest exhortation, endeavouring to make the eflfect of this exhortation turn mainly upon the point or points upon which he dwelt most forcibly in his explanation. By diligent attention to these ideas, and more especially to the one just mentioned, he will best remedy, as far as it can be remedied, the one great drawback to the success of this form of Homily, to which we are now to refer more fully. Guided by the authority of all great masters ...of sacred eloquence, we have frequently laid down, as an indis- putable principle, that all true eloquence must have unity for its foundation. Now, it is evident, that in the form of Homily described above, there is no real unity ; and, precisely for this reason, St. Francis of Sales, whose authority carries great weight with it, is of opinion that discourses of this kind are not calculated to produce much lasting fruit. This manner of running over the whole Gospel or Epistle of the day, he says, is not very fruitful, since the preacher, being unable to dwell Digitized by VjOOQ IC FIRST METHOD OF COMPOSING IT.
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