When men preach words rather than matter, they catch people's ears, not their souls; they court, but do not convert. If the patient's wound bleeds, nay, rankles, it is better for him to have a deep incision made in the flesh than to bind it about with silk or dress it with aromatic ointments. It is true, ministers ought to clothe the truths they preach in decent expressions to preserve them from contempt (though they must come in plainness of speech, not in rudeness of speech). But let them take heed lest, with their affected newly coined phrases (unsuitable to that gravity the apostle speaks of in Titus 2:7), they adulterate and corrupt the simplicity of the Word, like some kinds of sauces and compounds that take away the natural taste and savor of the meat.