Puritan pastor, Richard Baxter, in speaking to his fellow under-shepherds, had the following to say (from Baxter's The Reformed Pastor):
"Content not yourselves with being in a state of grace, but be also careful that your graces are kept in vigorous and lively exercise, and that you preach to yourselves the sermons which you study [for], before you preach them to others. If you did this for your own sakes, it would not be lost labour; but I am speaking to you upon the public account, that you would do it for the sake of the Church."
O that I might heed these words all my days!
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