You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.