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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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SER'MON, n.
1. A discourse delivered in public by a licensed clergymen for the purpose of religious instruction, and usually grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. Sermons are extemporary addresses or written discourses.
His preaching much, but more his practice wrought,
A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden.
2. A printed discourse.
SER'MON, v. t.
1. To discourse as in a sermon. [Little used.]
A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as,
the sermons of Chaucer.
[Obs.] Chaucer. Specifically, a discourse delivered in
public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious
instruction and grounded on some text or passage of
Scripture.
This our life exempt from public haunts His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, Hence, a serious address; a lecture on
one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often
in a depreciatory sense.
To speak; to discourse; to
compose or deliver a sermon.
[Obs.] Holinshed.
What needeth it to sermon of it more? Chaucer. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
[Obs.]
Spenser. To tutor; to lecture.
[Poetic]
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