Excerpt from A Sermon Preached on Wednesday Evening, July 11, 1855, at the Installation of the Rev. Duncan Kennedy, D.D., As Pastor of the Second Street Presbyterian Church, Troy But it is necessary, in order to accomplish the design of the ministry, to preach not only the truth, but the whole truth. I do not mean that we are required, under ordinary circum stances, to crowd all the doctrines of Chris tianity into a single discourse; for the effect of that must inevitably be, to leave, in most cases, but a general and ill-defined impression. Nor do I mean that every part of the Bible is literally to form the theme of a minister's public instructions; for if every portion of Scripture history and Scripture prophecy, and. All the judicial and ritual details of the Jewish economy, were to be distinctly considered, it would require a ministry of ante-diluvian length, to accomplish it. All that I intend to say is, that the system of divine truth revealed in the Bible must be preached in its integrity, provided the period of active labour be longenough to admit of it. All the doctrines and precepts, all the promises and threatenings, and an outline at least of history and prophecy, come fairly within the range of a minister's commission; and nothing short of this comes up to the idea of preaching the whole truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.