“Learn to esteem and value ministers who deal faithfully with your souls. A flattering ministry will ruin the people. Flattery from a minister is worse than flattery from a friend, for such a minister flatters a man not out of his goods and lands but out of his soul and salvation.”

- Josiah Shute, Ezra’s Covenant Renewal and the Pursuit of a Lasting Reformation, (Crossville, TN: Puritan Publications, 2023) 106.