O sirs, how plainly, how closely, how earnestly, should we deliver a message of such moment as ours. . . .
In the name of God, brethren, labour to awaken your own hearts, before you go to the pulpit, that you may be fit to awaken the hearts of sinners. Remember they must be awakened or damned, and . . . a sleepy preacher will hardly awaken drowsy sinners. Though you give the holy things of God the highest praise in words, yet, if you do it coldly, you will seem by your manner to unsay what you said in the matter. . . .
Oh, speak not one cold or careless word about so great a business as heaven or hell.
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