A sermon, preached in the new Lutheran Church of Zion, in the city of Philadelphia, at the instance of the ministers, wardens, and vestry-men, of... (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"IT was at your pressing Instance, that I preached this Sermon. It is at the same pressing Instance, that I consent to its Publication. I had many more Things wrote down in my Notes than I delivered. The Weather, you know, was hot, and my State of Health but indifferent. It would have pained both me and the Audience to have made a long Sermon. I have therefore inserted some Things that were not delivered, but have taken Care to insert none, but such as will explain the several important Points of Belief and Practice, that were then laid before, and pressed upon, my Hearers. The Manner in which the Text is treated is not to be got in the modern fashionable Systems of Divinity; but it is, and always has been, in the Heart of every pious Believer of the blessed Incarnation. These Persons are no Strangers to what is here said; but will cheerfully assent to, and be delighted therewith. But where the Heart has not received, nor is sensible of, this blessed Incarnation,there, I expect Rebuke and Censure. Be it so. Let it produce no Ill-will, nor angry Contention. Let us not enter into Disputation about Terms. If these Censurers are sincerely desirous to know the Truth, and will apply for it, where it only can be had, in and from Christ Jesus, they will from him learn Meekness; and as soon as they have received this Grace from their Saviour, the Glory, as it is here described, will not stay long after, and then, they will possess the Thing. It makes no..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.