“For truth is always self-consistent. It always agrees with itself. Hence, all matter that is really derived from the very substance and pith, of a fundamental truth, is homogenous and harmonious. Nothing is then drawn out, that was not first inlaid” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, pp. 201-202)
No Partial Force
“The preacher who studies and ponders the Bible as a whole, will not be a half-educated man. He will not see great ideas on one side, but on all sides, because they are so exhibited in Scripture . . . His force will not be lawless and without aim” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. …