Metadata
Title
Gilbert Tennent sermons 3, "Two Parables: Matthew 13:47-50 (fragment) and Matthew 13:45-46," circa 1743
Date
1743~
Digital Identifier
PHS.TennentSermons003
Description
Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764) was an Irish-American Presbyterian clergyman, and one of the leaders of the Great Awakening.
Tennent wrote this sermon about the Parable of the Net and
the Parable of the Pearl. Preaching the Gospel is likened to fishermen using nets to catch fish, with detailed descriptions of the fishermen's tasks and the destinies of the real and allegorical fish. The Parable of the Pearl compares trade and commerce in the physical world with that in the spiritual world, via the search for the Pearl of Great Price.
Both presentations employ the numbered lists of "particulars" and close arguments favored by Rev. Tennent.
Tennent wrote this sermon about the Parable of the Net and
the Parable of the Pearl. Preaching the Gospel is likened to fishermen using nets to catch fish, with detailed descriptions of the fishermen's tasks and the destinies of the real and allegorical fish. The Parable of the Pearl compares trade and commerce in the physical world with that in the spiritual world, via the search for the Pearl of Great Price.
Both presentations employ the numbered lists of "particulars" and close arguments favored by Rev. Tennent.
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Holding Institution
Presbyterian Historical Society
Extent
18 pages
Format (Digital)
tiff
Rights
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
eng
Type
Text
Abstract
Two parables: Parable of the Net, Matthew 13:47-50 (fragment) and Parable of the Pearl, Matthew 13: 45-46. Both sermons are early teaching sermons of ca. 1743, made to "allarm and allure", to frighten and then to encourage, where the parables are appealingly presented comparing human and divine-- the human uses of fishing nets and the good and bad "fish" that are caught, and the perils and hopes for bad and good people as represented by the minister, with the hope, during the First Great Awakening, for the best haul possible of good congregants.
The following parable describes the activities of earthly merchants, maintaining their books and accounts the way that congregants should maintain their souls and spiritual well-being, being present at sermons in order to recognize the true Christ and avoid charlatans, in the way that merchants travel here and there to gain trading skills and knowledge of merchandise, blending the earthly and spiritual metaphors into imagining how it would be to have Christ as our agent in far-off Heaven.
The following parable describes the activities of earthly merchants, maintaining their books and accounts the way that congregants should maintain their souls and spiritual well-being, being present at sermons in order to recognize the true Christ and avoid charlatans, in the way that merchants travel here and there to gain trading skills and knowledge of merchandise, blending the earthly and spiritual metaphors into imagining how it would be to have Christ as our agent in far-off Heaven.
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