# Sermons on Evil-Speaking

Author: Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677; Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 [Editor]

Genre: Christianity

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10274

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sermons+on+Evil-Speaking+Barrow&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

General declamations against vice and sin are indeed excellently useful, as rousing men to consider and look about them: but they do often want effect, because they only raise confused apprehensions of things, and indeterminate propensions to action; which usually, before men thoroughly perceive or resolve what they should practise, do decay and vanish. As he that cries out "Fire!" doth stir up people, and inspireth them with a kind of hovering tendency every way, yet no man thence to purpose moveth until he be distinctly informed where the mischief is; then do they, who apprehend themselves concerned, run hastily to oppose it: so, till we particularly discern where our offences lie (till...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sermons-on-evil-speaking-10274/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sermons-on-evil-speaking-10274/chapters/2/index.md)