...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens. At length he...

...reference to a Presbyterian minister whom he encountered during his early years in Philadelphia. ... his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments,...since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens.5 On the other...

...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens. At length he...

...been, in my Opinion, a good Preacher perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's Leisure in my Course of Study: But...since not a single moral Principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their Aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good Citizens. At length he...

...Sundays. But a month of Andrews's orthodoxy was all Franklin could stomach. He dismisses the sermons as "chiefly either polemic Arguments, or Explications...all to me very dry, uninteresting and unedifying." They inculcated no moral principles, Franklin complained, "their Aim seeming to be rather to make us...

...was an excellent preacher and he attracted Franklin back to church. Unlike Andrews's sermons, that were "chiefly either polemic Arguments, or Explications of the peculiar Doctrines of our Sect" and hence to Franklin "very dry, uninteresting and unedifying, since not a single moral Principle was inculcated...

...Press, 1981), 16. 29. Ibid., 11. Franklin also relates the story of being visited by a minister whose "Discourses were chiefly either polemic, Arguments,...since not a single moral Principle was inculcated or enforc'd" (77). Discussing Franklin and Edwards, Daniel Walker Howe notes that self-construction was...

...upon him to sample his Sunday sermons, which Franklin did for five weeks. Unfortunately, he found them "uninteresting and unedifying since not a single moral...enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us good Presbyterians than good citizens." Franklin reverted to spending his Sundays reading and writing...

...on him to sample his Sunday sermons, which Franklin did for five weeks. Unfortunately, he found them "uninteresting and unedifying since not a single moral...enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us good Presbyterians than good citizens." On his final visit, the reading from the Scripture (Philippians...

...Leisure in mv Course of Study: But his Discourses were chiefly either polemic Argumems, or Esplications of the peculiar Doctrines of our Sect, and were all to me very dry, unimeresting and unedifying, since not a single moral Principle was inculeated or enforc'd, their Aim...