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Despite its liturgical importance, seventeenth-century Reformed preaching is still neglected by historians of religion, who tend to see it as a homogeneous corpus. This article challenges this view by examining three works on preaching published at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Their authors invite us to reassess the influence of Jean Claude’s Traité de la composition du sermon on preaching practices in France and the Refuge countries during the second half of the seventeenth century. They also draw our attention to the possible acculturation of Reformed preaching by Catholic preaching, in parallel with the rise of moral sermons and the use of portraits.