Ocupation: Poet
Life: November 12, 1615 - December 8, 1691
Birthday: November 12
Death: December 8
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.
source: Richard Baxter (1862). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.181
topic: Hate, Moving, Play, Stage Play, Tickling, Levity