What makes people either love or hate Real Gospel Preaching

“If there is one more salient character of revealed religion than another, it is confidence, certainty-positiveness! “Thus saith the Lord”-“I have a message from God unto thee.” But this is just that spirit against which the public mind rebels,-it will have truth and falsehood-the revelation of God and the lubrications of men, dealt with alike-philosophically, liberally, without preference or partiality-as perhaps true, or perhaps false, but all alike to be regarded with a sort of Platonic composure-we will not say, indifference,-the result obviously being to enlarge the region of Doubt.” Page 2.

CLOSE, FRANCIS (The Footsteps of Error Traced Through Twenty-Five Years; Or, Superstition, The Parent of Modern Doubt by Francis Close. London. 1863. Hatchard and Co.)