For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
Ver. 3. Was not of deceit, nor, &c.] Neither for profit, pleasure, nor preferment (the worldling's trinity). A minister, as he should have nothing to lose, so he should have nothing to get, but should be above all price or sale. He hath too impotent a spirit, whose services, like the dial, must be set only by the sun of self-respects. True grace is of a most masculine, disengaged, noble nature, and remits nothing of its diligence either for fear of a frown or hope of a reward.