Sermons of R.M. M'Cheyne

M'Cheyne's own counsel to a fellow minister explains why these sermons brought such abundant blessing not only to 'the noisy mechanics and political weavers' of Dundee but, later, to all parts of the English-speaking world: 'Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God...It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin'.