John Calvin's Theology Of Preaching

references to creative form is secondary. He left all inherited methodology behind. Christ has spoken in the simplest way and yet he was fluency embodied. So, the preacher should speak simple. Regarding the subject is that the preacher must be careful. He illustrated that the servant girls who, on the way to the market place, stop and conversed with all the associates they meet. Preachers who wander too far from their subject are doing the same thing. They intend to say everything at once but this is impossible.

Free from all the limitations of methodology is the only method that he used in his own preaching. He was not fitted with the usual homiletical categories. In Luther’s preaching, it is certainly possible to isolate some of the elements

Calvin was influenced by humanists. The preaching idea of Calvin is that the preaching becomes revelation when if God agrees to add to it the Holy Spirit. The Spirit does not speak anything that has not already been said in the scripture. Preaching can be called as the Word of God only by the preaching expounds and interpret the Bible. He sensed very low level for human activity in preaching. He considered the following things as the qualities of the preacher. They are competence in theology, knowledge in interpretation, personal life formation, and the charisma of teaching. A preacher should have these qualities for the ministry of the Word of

Jeremy Taylor:

Jeremy Taylor was born at Cambridge in 1613. He got ordination in 1633. He was the poet preacher, who did his graduate at Cambridge University. He was imprisoned in two times. His preaching style is practically supreme among orators for its affluence of elegant expression and his wordings and its wealth of fascinating imagery.

His reputation has been maintained by the popularity of his sermons and devotional writings. He published several devotional books. His sermons were fruitful in quotations and references. This seeming thoroughness is making up for the practical purpose of hearers by his sermons. He keeps the noble model before his hearers. He focused on spiritual experiences of the hearers.

6.1.2. Richard Baxter

He did not get well educate in this period. He was a good reader and life time writer. His preaching was like memorable instruction. His sermons have a consistent structure. First, he opens the text. Then he explored the difficulties of the text. In the midst of the sermon, he delivered with passionate pleading. After pleading with great sympathy and power he ends the sermon. His aim was to focus the content to let the truth make its own impact. He was not only preached, but to teach. The biblical truths were the fundamental to