A Word to Preachers

How often shall a plain sermon (when the preacher aims not to be seen, but rather to show his Lord) be blessed to the conversion, establishment and happiness, of immortal souls; while pompous orations and laboured performances shall evaporate in sound, or produce no spiritual good; or if they are remembered for a while, they are remembered not for God's glory, but for the praise of those dying creatures who made them. A poor employment this, to speak and write for the breath of worms, which is, at first, corrupt in itself, and soon vanishes into nothing.--Anon