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‘You have been half an hour,’ (said the late Mr. Robinson to a clergyman) ‘without one word directly aimed at the conscience.’ Life, p. 217. His own ‘Scripture Characters’ (originally delivered in the form of sermons) are admirable specimens of this mode of address. See also Claude’s Sermon on Phil. 2.12—Mr. Simeon’s Sermon on the Gospel Message, appended to his edition of Claude—the Sermons of Walker of Edinburgh (as for instance, on 2Cor. 6.1), and Vitringa’s Sermon on the history of Jabez (1Chron. 4.10.) in his Methodus Homiletica. ‘As much as possible, sermons ought to be carried on in a strain of direct address to the audience.’ Blair’s Lectures.