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| The Preacher Should Commence His Discourse with Prayer to God.
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Chapter 30.—The Preacher Should
Commence His Discourse with Prayer to God.
63. But whether a man is going to
address the people or to dictate what others will deliver or read
to the people, he ought to pray God to put into his mouth a
suitable discourse. For if Queen Esther prayed, when she was
about to speak to the king touching the temporal welfare of her
race, that God would put fit words into her mouth,2023
| 2023 Esth. iv.
16 (LXX.). | how much
more ought he to pray for the same blessing who labors in word and
doctrine for the eternal welfare of men? Those, again, who are to
deliver what others compose for them ought, before they receive
their discourse, to pray for those who are preparing it; and when
they have received it, they ought to pray both that they themselves
may deliver it well, and that those to whom they address it may
give ear; and when the discourse has a happy issue, they ought to
render thanks to Him from whom they know such blessings come, so
that all the praise may be His “in whose hand are both we and our
words.”2024
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