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Puritan View of Preaching

"There are too many persons who have imbibed and propagate this notion, that it is almost the only business of a preacher to teach the necessary doctrines and duties of our holy religion by a mere explication of the Word of God without enforcing these things on the conscience by a passionate address to the heart." Isaac WattsThe pastor is to "work upon the will and affections and by savoury, powerful and affectionate application of the truth delivered, to chase it into the heart and woo and win the soul to the love and liking, the approbation and practice of the doctrine which is according to godliness." Thomas Hooker