Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net HINTS ON EXTEMPORANEOUS PREACHING. BY HENRY WARE, JR. MINISTER OF THE SECOND CHURCH IN BOSTON. Maximus vero studiorum fructus est, et velut praemium quoddam amplissimum longi laboris, ex tempore dicendi facultas. _Quinct._ x. 7. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS, HILLIARD & CO. 1824. University Press--Hilliard & Metcalf. TO THE STUDENTS IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY, THIS LITTLE TREATISE, WITH THE SINCEREST PRAYERS THAT THEY MAY BECOME PROFOUND DIVINES AND POWERFUL PREACHERS, IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Advantages of Extemporaneous Preaching CHAPTER II. Disadvantages--Objections considered CHAPTER III. Rules PREFACE. It is the object of this little work, to draw the attention of those who are preparing for the christian ministry, or who have just entered it, to a mode of preaching which the writer thinks has been too much discountenanced and despised; but which, under proper restrictions, he is persuaded may add greatly to the opportunities of ministerial usefulness. The subject has hardly received the attention it deserves from writers on the pastoral office, who have usually devoted to it but a few sentences, which offer little encouragement and afford no aid. Burnet, in his Treatise on the Pastoral Care, and Fenelon in his Dialogues on Eloquence, have treated it more at large, but still very cursorily. To their arguments and their authority, which are of great weight, I refer the more distinctly here, because I have not quoted them so much at large as I intended when I wrote the beginning of the second chapter. Besides these, the remarks of Quinctilian, x. 7. on the subject of speaking extempore, which are full of his usual good sense, may be very profitably consulted.