I go to church and there beyond expectation find one seat, and all the church crammed by twice as many people as used to be; and to my great joy find Mr Frampton in the pulpit, and I think the best sermon for goodness and oratory without affectation or study that ever I heard in my life. The truth is he preaches the most like an apostle that ever I heard man, and it was the best time that I ever spent in my life at church.1 S. Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, entry for January 20, 1666 [O.S.], 1667 [N.S.].
– Samuel Pepys, in his Diary, January 20, 1666–67
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