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ENCOURAGEMENT FOR PASTORS (BY SPURGEON)
We insist upon it, that there must be an abundance of matter in sermons, and next, that this matter must be harmonious with the text. The discourse should spring out of the text as a rule, and the more evidently it does so the better; but at all times, to say the least, it should have a very close relationship thereto. In spiritualism and accommodation, a very large latitude is to be allowed. Still, liberty must not degenerate into license, and there must always be a connection, and something more than a remote connection—a real relationship between the sermon and its text.
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