Adaptation in a Minister

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1 Corinthians 9:20-22

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law…

"We use the language of the market," said Whitefield, and this was much to his honour; yet when he stood in the drawing-room of the Countess of Huntingdon, and his speech entranced the infidel nobleman whom she brought to hear him, he adopted another style. His language was equally plain in each case, because it was equally familiar to the audience: he did not use the ipsissima verba, or his language would have lost its plainness in the one case or the other, and would either have been slang to the nobility or Greek to the crowd.

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