"It was a wise reproof which a grave divine administered to a young preacher, who entertained his auditory with an elaborate discourse: after he had commended his parts and pains, there was (said he) one thing wanting in the sermon: I could not perceive the Spirit of God was in it.And though morality is good and necessary to be taught and practiced, yet it is much to be lamented, that many preachers in these days have hardly any other discourses in their pulpit than what we find in Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch, and some such heathen moralist.  Christ, the Holy Spirit, and (in a word) the gospel is not in their sermons."Increase Mather