sinners, or for the building up of the saints. For neither eloquence nor depth of thought makes the truly great preacher, but such a life of prayer and meditation and spirituality, as may render him a vessel meet for the master’s use, and fit to be employed both in the conversion of sinners and in the edification of the saints. About the beginning of April I went to preach at Sidmouth. While I was staying there, three sisters in the Lord had, in my presence, a conversation about baptism, one of whom
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