6.1.3. John Bunyan He was a man of intellectual sympathy of this age treated as a good preacher of this period. His sermons thought shows that he was a man of ideas and aims which fill the scholarly atmosphere. His book, pilgrim progress shows us that he was a man of evangelical. This book was written in an allegorical method. He was the man of preaching. The content of his preaching were the gospel, hope, and the world that to come. 6.1.4. Tillotson He was the Arch Bishop of Canterbury. He caused a revolution in English preaching. He broke the puritan method of tradition. He boosted his sermons with illustration. There was no emotion, no appeal, and no heroism. The sermon under Tillotson’s influence was widespread and became a moral essay. …show more content…
The features of his sermons and of his art of preaching made him one of the most well-known preachers in London. 6.2. In the seventeenth century, there were three styles or forms of preaching. They are as follows; 1. The sermon written out and memorised. 2. The sermon preached from full notes. 3. The read …show more content…
His sermons were styles to appeal to the masses in contrast to the inedible and indigestible theological essays so typical of many Victorian Age pulpits. In the pulpit he balanced the relevance and evangelical passion of his preaching with a mystical power of public prayer, which revealed the sympathy of his pastoral heart and a memory full of scripture. In this century, the church activities turned towards social cares of its people. One of the great responsibilities of the Church of England up to the middle of the nineteenth century was any blame from its pulpits to the injustices of the structure of society which allowed extremes of wealth and poverty to co-exist. The French revolution had the effect it England of increasing fear of any reformation of the status quo in case complete failure succeeds. The reform movement in the year of 1830 and 1840 saw little hope of support for their cause from the established