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Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical and Practical Theology presents one of the most comprehensive methods of treating Christian doctrine. In it, Mastricht treats every theological topic according to a four-part approach: exegetical, dogmatic, elenctic, and practical. As a body of divinity, it combines a rigorous, scholastic treatment of doctrine with the pastoral aim of preparing people to live...

the words, such that they are forced to send away hungry and starving hearers without any practice, without any longed-for nourishment of the soul, with the bald excuse of the lapse of time, even if they may have this one thing in their favor, that they have supplied a learned and elegant sermon. Finally, such preachers comment on the individual expressions of the text in such a way that they are not able to elaborate any argument, whether a theoretical or practical one, as it deserves, with great
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