Following his denunciation of the spiritual apathy and sloth of the senior members of the university in his sermon "Scriptural Christianity" on 24 August 1744, he was never asked to preach there again — "I preached, I suppose, the last time at St Mary's", he wrote in his journal, "Be it so; I have fully delivered my soul."
After delivering a sermon titled "Scriptural Christianity" on 24 August 1744 where he denounced the spiritual apathy and sloth of senior university members, he was never asked to preach there again — "I suppose I preached the last time at St Mary's", he wrote in his journal, "Be it so; I have fully expressed my thoughts."