seem to be past fearing it, and tell them of the plague of sin, till they are past feeling; when, instead of preaching men to faith, and repentance, and fear, and tenderness of heart, we preach them into greater unbelief and carelessness, and dead stupidity; this is enough to dull or break the heart of almost any preacher in the world. What man is able to follow so fruitless a work with liveliness? And then it is you that will have the loss and danger of it: when you have dried the breasts the child