Preaching or Lecturing

Sun 9 May 1784: I preached to a small company at noon, on ‘his commandments are not grievous’. As I was concluding, Colonel Grant and his Lady came in, for whose sake I began again and ‘lectured’, as they call it, on the former part of the 15th chapter of St. Luke. We had a larger company in the afternoon, to whom I preached on ‘judgment to come’. And this subject seemed to affect them most.