We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.
Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae homilecticae: or discourses (principally in the form of skeletons) now first digested into one continued series, and forming a commentary upon every book of the Old and New Testament; to which is annezed an improved edition of a translation of Claude's essay on the composition of a sermon...”, p.352
