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… I must acknowledge […] the idle lazy way of preaching, which many of our clergy are got into, seeming rather to make self-interest the motive for the exercising their profession than the eternal happiness and salvation of men’s souls. […] I think the precept and practice in most (that is, in too many of us) is an opposite to each other. [On 22 May 1763:] Myself and servant at church in the afternoon; the text Luke 24.49: "But tarry ye in the City of Jerusalem […]" The sermon …
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