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title: 'The Type of Preacher Daniel Baker Desired to Be'
type: post
author: 'Caleb Cangelosi'
date: 2018-08-12
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2018-the-type-of-preacher-daniel-baker-desired-to-be
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# The Type of Preacher Daniel Baker Desired to Be

“Dry, logical sermons, with rounded periods, delivered in a cold, formal, and heartless manner, I can never relish, however beautified by the superficial elegances of composition; and I question if the good effects which flow from such preaching will be sufficient to compensate the minister for all his care, labor, & refinement. I love warm, animating, lively, *evanggelominos* Preaching, full of fire, breathing love and compassion. I may I never, become a cold, lifeless, sentimental preacher, but may I imitate the zeal of a Whitefield, the tenderness of a Hervey, the affection of a Baxter, and blend all with the pure, sound, evangelical principles of a Doddridge.”

— [Daniel Baker](/authors/daniel-baker), [Life & Labors](/authors/william-munford-baker), p. 62