There is a great necessity lies upon the prophets and ministers of Christ to Preach, and to preach home to the conscience. Warn them they must, and so warn them that they may take notice; else it is in vain and shall be before the Lord as no warning. This they must do, and do it oft—and why? Else the blood of the wicked will be required at their hand.

Their blood, their lives lie at the stake for sinners’ souls. They have a hard task, a dangerous calling, and therefore had need preach and tell them of their sins that, if it be possible, they may save their souls, in not their own.

People wonder many times at some preachers; they are so fiery, so particular, so terrible, so long. You may cease to wonder; their lives, their souls go for it if they do it not; the hazard of souls and lives will make dumb men speak.

— William Greenhill

Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel, 115

Ore from the Puritans’ Mine, 413