Excerpt from A Promptuary for Preachers: Advent to Ascension Day; Containing Three Hundred and Thirty-Eight Epitomized Latin Sermons Such may be termed the constructive Promptuary. The' Analytical Promptuary furnishes the material for clothing and ornamenting a subject thought out already in the mind; the Constructive Promptuary, on the other hand, supplies the form which is to be clothed. Each kind of Promptuary has its parti cular advantages and disadvantages; the finest collections of doctrinal Statements, anecdotes, and wise sayings, are absolutely useless to him who lacks the feeling, skill, and invention to supply a fitting setting in which they can be used to advantage. The most perfect skeleton of a sermon is of no avail to him who is unable either to assimilate a thought, or who is destitute of ideas to hang upon any peg. The Choice of method in pre paring such a book as the present involves, then, the careful weighing of loss and gain on either Side. After much con sideration it was determined that the Constructive Promptuary hould, at all events, be prepared first, and that if it should meet with a fair measure of success, and if life and health were given, the Analytical Promptuary should follow at some future' time. Meanwhile, to supply a concise epitome of between six and seven hundred good, sound practical sermons, from sources which are rarely to be reached, could at no time be deemed to be a profitless labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.