“146. A good Example is the best Sermon.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“A good honest and painfull sermon.”
March 17, 1661
"Painful" here means "painstakingly written".
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