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Reformed Pastor. ‘To preach of regeneration, of faith, when a man has no spiritual understanding of these things, is to talk of the sweetness of honey when we never tasted it; or of the excellence of such a country which we were never in, but know only by maps. If you know the truths of God only by books, only by authors, and your own heart does not feel the power of these thing, then you are only like the conduit that lets out wine or refreshing water to others, but you yourself do not taste it; or like the hand that directs the passenger, but you yourself stand still.’ Anthony Burgess’s Funeral Sermon for Rev. T. Blake.