Puritan Quote on Preaching

[KenPierce]

Please help me find the accurate quote and attribution:

I have never preached a sermon, and I despair that I shall ever do so...

(That is from memory, and thus paraphrastic).

Dr. Clark or someone, "Help!!!"

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

James Henley Thornwell, cited by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, p. 99):

Depend upon it that there is but little preaching in the world, and it is a mystery of grace and of divine power that God's cause is not ruined in the world when we consider the qualifications of many of its professed ministers to preach it. My own performances in this way fill me with disgust. I have never made, much less preached, a sermon in my life, and I am beginning to despair of ever being able to do it.

 

[KenPierce]

Ah, the seraphic Thornwell.

Thanks so much Andrew!

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

You're most welcome!