The Great Gain of Godliness

As for this treatise, it comes abroad in a plain dress: truth like a diamond-shines brightest in its native luster! Paul did not come to the Corinthians with excellence of speech, or the pride of oratory-his study was not to court-but convert. It is an unhappiness that, in these luxuriant times, religion should for the most part run either into notion or ceremony; the spirits of true religion are evaporated. When knowledge is turned into soul food, and digested into practice-then it is savi...