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The morning exercise methodized
The morning exercise methodized; or Certain chief heads and points of the Christian religion opened and improved in divers sermons, by several ministers of the City of London, in the monthly course of the morning exercise at Giles in the Fields. May 1659.
London: printed by E. M. for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The reason why people (generally) remember no more of the Sermons they hear, is for want of Catechizing, whereby they might come to know the principles of Religion in their order, and methodical contexture. Usually in Sermons, truths are delivered single and apart; and the ignorant hearer knows not where the Minister is, nor what place the doctrine delivered obtains in the body of divinity, nor how they are knit together; and so the memory leaks them out as fast as they are dropped in; order is the very glue of memory. Method in a single Sermon, when the hearer is acquainted with it, gratifieth the memory, as well as the understanding; while it doth not only lodge things in ⟨p. 19⟩their own place, but locks the door upon them, that they may not be lost. When things are knit and linked in one with another (as in a chain) pull up one link, and that will pull up another, so that the whole chain is preserved. But we may have occasion to speak again of this point; And therefore,
The reason why people (generally) remember no more of the Sermons they hear, is for want of Catechizing, whereby they might come to know the principles of Religion in their order, and methodical contexture. Usually in Sermons, truths are delivered single and apart; and the ignorant hearer knows not where the Minister is, nor what place the doctrine delivered obtains in the body of divinity, nor how they are knit together; and so the memory leaks them out as fast as they are dropt in; order is the very glue of memory. Method in a single Sermon, when the hearer is acquainted with it, gratifieth the memory, as well as the understanding; while it doth not only lodge things in ⟨p. 19⟩their own place, but locks the door upon them, that they may not be lost. When things are knit and linckt in one with another (as in a chaine) pull up one link, and that will pull up another, so that the whole chaine is preserved. But we may have occasion to speak again of this point; And therefore,
Fourthly, such Modules serve to quicken affection.