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Charges, p. 238. It is no breach of charity to suppose, that to some of us Massillon would have spoken, as he did to his own clergy—‘What is the most unreasonable is that the clergy, who plead the necessity of amusements, are ordinarily those who have the least need of them, who most neglect their duty, and the employment attached to their vocation. Their life consists in habitual indolence. We see in them nothing serious, not even in the discharge of their professional obligations, which are often hurried over with an air of fatigue, of reluctance, and of indecency. What ought to be their consolation is their trouble. They hasten into the world where they may forget their profession and themselves together.’ Charges, p. 142.