the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

[274] it difficult to imagine that the same person who was correct and perspicuous in his writings could be habitually unintelligible in the pulpit. The ‘intelligent’ person referred to very probably laboured under some strong theological bias, which prevented him from assenting to Mr. Lowman's conclusions, and perhaps, in some cases, even from perceiving the drift of his arguments, and, therefore, it is possible enough that he might sometimes misunderstand him; but we can hardly place much reliance on the testimony of a man who, by his own account of himself, remained a constant hearer of a preacher whose discourses he could never understand.