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The following is abridged from a pamphlet by James Begg (1803-1883), The Art of Preaching, printed in 1863, twenty years after more than 400 ministers had left the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland. While in the context in which Begg wrote there were no doubt peculiar historical circumstances affecting the […]https://banneroftruth.org/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/09/1619303_10152009227311976_3978164821797516248_n.jpg