Nettleton on emotionalism in evangelism:
A powerful religious excitement, badly conducted, has ever been considered by the most experienced ministers and best friends of revivals, to be a great calamity. Without close discrimination, an attempt to raise the tone of religious feeling will do infinite mischief. This was the manner of false teachers: ‘They zealously affect you; but not well.’ It will be like that of Paul before his conversion, and like that of the Jews who were never converted, ‘a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.’ The driving will become like the driving of Jehu: ‘Come, see my zeal for the Lord!’ The storm, and earthquake, and fire, are dreadful; but God is not there.
—Bennet Tyler, The Life and Labours of Asahel Nettleton (Banner of Truth, 1975), 366–367.
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