“It is not very long, and it seems to us a model
of the tact and art which a Minister of the Gospel ought to use in his
speech when just grievances compel him to address deserved reproaches
to the faithful. It would be impossible to blame with greater
force, to complain with more
frankness, and yet to do it in a way less offensive to the
hearers. Praise, indeed, is so mingled with blame in this
discourse, and there is in its tone something so earnest and
affectionate, that the audience, though sharply reprimanded, not only
could not take offence, but was compelled to conceive a yet greater
affection and admiration for him who so reproved them.”