A Sketch of Modern Prachers

"There are a sort of preachers in the present day I am loath to call them ministers, who appear more solicitous to make their expressions good than their hearers and had much rather hear their praises than their sighs, and that their auditors should admire their fine language, than follow their best counsel.

"In such sermons there is little spoken either from the heart or to the heart. The orator and auditory agreeing together to deceive themselves. As the conversion of sinners is neither the effect nor the aim of such florid unedifying discourses, the business is transacted on both sides, as if the preacher had done his part when he had shewn his wit and as if the hearers thought they had done theirs when they had commended it."