Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sermons for Every Sunday and Festival of the Year, Vol. 1: Chiefly Taken From the Sermons of M. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont
Never, perhaps, was there' a christian orator who possessed a more perfect knowledge of the heart of man.' the insinuates himself into its inmost' recesses he explores, and lays open every avenue to pub lic inspection. He delineates the affections, describes the first causes of thecorruption, and displays the inward workings of the'mind with such precision and clearness, that every individual who has departed frdm'the ways of virtue beholds-as exact a delineation of his own fea tures, as if the picture had been.
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