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Come! you are all good fellows, we'll take another glass together! It is recorded of Rev. Urian Oakes that often the hour-glass was turned four times during one of his sermons. The warning legend,
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Be Short, which Cotton Mather inscribed over his study door was not written over his pulpit; for he wrote in his diary that at his own ordination he prayed for an hour and a quarter, and preached for an hour and three quarters. Added to the other ordination exercises these long Mather addresses must have been tiresome enough. Nathaniel Ward deplored at that time,
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Wee have a strong weakness in New England that when wee are speaking, wee know not how to conclude: wee make many ends before wee make an end.
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being a most deplored and even despised clerical short-coming. Had not the Puritans left the Church of England to escape
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? Whitefield prayed openly for Parson Barrett of Hopkinton, who could pray neither freely, nor well, that
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God would open this dumb dog's mouth;