However, this (sleeping in church) being not the only way by which the lukewarm Christians and scorners of the age discover their neglect and contempt of preaching, I shall enter expressly into consideration of this matter, and order my discourse in the following method:-
First, I shall produce several instances to show the great neglect of preaching now among us.
Secondly, I shall reckon up some of the usual quarrels men have against preaching.
Thirdly, I shall get forth the great evil of this neglect and contempt of preaching, and discover the real causes whence it proceedeth.
Lastly, I shall offer some remedies against this great and spreading evil.
'On Sleeping in Church' - Jonathan Swift
Sounds good doesn't?
Interesting to find how contemporary this is. Yet Swift wrote it sometime in the late 17th or early 18th Century.
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