Pop Quiz

Okay, Pop Quiz. Who said this:

"And therefore it does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions of the Scripture, and other good books on divinity; because, although these may tend as well as preaching to give men a good doctrinal or speculative understanding of the things of the Word of God, yet they have not the an equal tendency to impress them on men's hearts and affections."

I love this quote. It shows just how important preaching is in impacting the souls of men and women. God has ordained in His Word that preaching should "affect sinners with the importance of the things of religion, and their own misery and necessity of a remedy." Reading books is great, but it cannot replace the man of God, exhorting God's truth faithfully in the pulpit.