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'Tis pity this Doctrine should want persuasive directions, how to improve it. I begin therefore with Conviction.

'Tis pitty this Doctrine should want perswasive directions, how to improve it. I begin therefore with Conviction.

And, Oh that I could rouse the sluggish, and startle the careless Christian! 'Tis heart-work I shall this day attempt. And therefore be it known to you (that your expectations may not be frustrated) be it known to every one of you, that come rather to see a Sermon, then to hear a Sermon; rather to be tickled with notions, then wounded with convictions; I have nothing will please such curious hearers. I cannot scratch your itching ears; Pray observe my theme; It is the enjoyment of God, Communion with God. Is this a subject fit for Quibbles? is this a business to be jested with? Nothing less.

ANd, Oh that I could rouze the sluggish, and startle the carelesse Christian! 'Tis heart-work I shall this day attempt. And therefore be it known to you (that your expectations may not be frustrated) be it known to every one of you, that come rather to see a Sermon, then to hear a Sermon; rather to be tickled with notions, then wounded with convictions; I have nothing wil please such curious hearers. I cannot scratch your itching ears; Pray abserve my theme; It is the enjoyment of God, Communion with God. Is this a subject fit for Quibles? is this a businesse to be jeasted with? Nothing lesse.

'Tis true in one respect, my subject requires that I should rifle all the Rarities of Nature, and gather up all the Flowers of Rhetoric; that I should borrow (were it possible) the tongue of Angels, and speak words only fit for heaven. But on the other side, 'tis more necessary ⟨p. 28⟩