Note 4 — SERMON I. PREACHED FEBRUARY 3, 1771.

They did this with design, and on principle; as appears from St. Austin’s discourse de Doctrinâ Christianâ, in which he instructs the Christian preacher to employ, on some occasions, inelegant and even barbarous terms and expressions, the better to suit himself to the apprehensions of his less informed hearers—non curante illo, qui docet, quantâ eloquentiâ doceat, sed quantâ evidentiâ. Cujus evidentiæ diligens appetitus aliquando negligit verba cultiora, nec curat quid benè sonet, sed quid benè indicet atque intimet quod ostendere intendit—and what follows. L. iv. p. 74. Ed. Erasm. t. iii.