Excerpt from The Christian Preacher: Or Discourses on Preaching Hare we not been too often tempted to follow the modisb stay, and speak to our hearers in general terma, as though they were converted already, and sufficiently made christians by a national profession? Have not some of us Spent our labour to build them up in the practice of duties, without teaching them to search whether the foundation has been laid in antentire-change and renovation of heart?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.