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It was Mr. Robinson’s sensible judgment, ‘that one or two texts were as good as one hundred.’ A valuable old writer observes the defects on both sides—of loading sermons with a mass of Scripture, and leaving them wholly destitute. He remarks that a judicious selection of Scripture proof (seldom more than one to a single point) was the practice of Christ and his apostles, though they could have produced multiplied testimonies of Scripture in defending themselves against their enemies. Zepperi Ars Conscion. Lib. II. chap. vi. Compare Bowles, Lib. ii. 2. Burnet’s Past. Care, ch. ix.