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In this first volume, Dargan begins his account of preaching over the centuries with the need for such a work. Starting with the first three centuries, Dargan moves systematically through the sixteenth century in volume one. He concentrates on the influence of preaching on culture and vice-versa, in relation to social change, doctrine, literature, politics, science, and education. Dargan also...

and fruitful repentance. This he enforced by many an apt illustration and example, many a strong and brave application. His work was fortified and his message of repentance strikingly symbolized in the rite of baptism from which he gets his name.1 It had not been uncommon for the older prophets to employ external things as signs, tokens, illustrations of their messages. John does not seem to have used the synagogues, but to have preached altogether to the crowds in the open air. In both character
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