Among regular clergy, the orders of friars retained a slightly double-edged esteem among the laity as skilled confessors and dramatic preachers. |
The quaestuary preachers drain the very blood and marrow of the poor simple people. |
In May 1551 the king conferred on him the archdeaconry of Exeter, and appointed him one of the six preachers of Canterbury cathedral. |
Among Baptist preachers, the most formative figure in the area of homiletics was John Broadus. |
The controversy originated through the incursion of Arminian preachers into the Calvinistic Methodist churches of 18th century Wales. |
In addition to the regular clergy, these were served by 43 local preachers. |