False Preaching Quotes
This sermon, sometimes called the “Sermon Against Pastors” split the Presbyterian Church of the day into the orthodox and the evangelicals.
Sunday put on a very dramatic show, often breaking furniture. Many intellectuals at the time thought him, as opposed to many other Christian Evangelists, a self-serving fraud. Defenders claimed that they targeted him because he was so effective.
The issue as to whether clerics should be paid for their services, or teaching or given control of property or other power has split most religions including Muslims and Jews as well as various Christian sects. In the case of the Quakers, their philosophy came out against the pecuniary and material interests of the established churches, thus building a theological opposition. See {611968}