Excerpt from The Universal Anthology, Vol. 18: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, With Biographical and Explanatory Notes Remarkable instances are related of the manner in which be impressed his hearers. A man at Exeter stood with stones in his pocket, and one in his hand, ready to throw at him; but he dropped it before the sermon was far advanced, and going up to him after the preaching was over, he said, Sir, I came to hear you with an intention to break your head; but God, through your ministry, has given me a broken heart A ship builder was once.asked what he thought of him. Think! He replied, I tell you, sir, every Sunday that I go to my parish church, I can build a ship from stem to stern under the sermon but were it to save my soul, under Mr. Whitefield I could not lay a single plank. Hume pronounced him the most ingenious preacher he had ever heard and said it was worth while to go twenty miles to hear him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.