In short, the manner of declaimers is one thing, and that of teachers ought to be another. The former, with all the powers of their eloquence, covet the pomp of laboriously polished declamation; the latter, with sober and ordinary speech, seek the glory of Christ. The former clothe empty things with precious ornaments of words; the latter adorn truthful sentiments and commend simple words. The former affect to hide the deformity of their thoughts as though with a kind of veil of bedizened speech; the latter strive to beautify the rusticity of their utterances with precious meanings. The former place all their praise in the favor of the crowd, the latter in the power of God. The former speak so as to win applause, and profit nothing to their hearers by declaiming;
the latter teach with ordinary discourse, and form their imitators—because they do not corrupt their speech with any affectation of artificial composition.