Regi Addictissimus
Completely sold out to the King
From William Jones (1561-1636):
It is not enough to hear sermons every week, which is good and commendable, but we must give diligent attention to the things that we hear, especially now in the time of the gospel when God speaks by His own Son.… We must not only hear the preacher but also attend to the things that he says. An infant does not only take the breast into his mouth, but he sucks at it, and that with greediness. So we must not only lie at the breast of the Word, but we must suck sweet doctrines and heavenly instructions from it.… It is said of the people that they hung on Christ, watching the words that came from his mouth, ready to receive them before they came: so with all care and diligence we must hang on the preacher, mark his words, and be ready to receive them into our ears and hearts, even before they are delivered, so eager should we be of the Word. A COMMENTARY UPON THE EPISTLES OF ST. Paul, HEB 2:1.
Rittgers, R. K., & George, T. (Eds.). (2017). Hebrews, James: New Testament (Vol. XIII, p. 29). Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press.
It is not enough to hear sermons every week, which is good and commendable, but we must give diligent attention to the things that we hear, especially now in the time of the gospel when God speaks by His own Son.… We must not only hear the preacher but also attend to the things that he says. An infant does not only take the breast into his mouth, but he sucks at it, and that with greediness. So we must not only lie at the breast of the Word, but we must suck sweet doctrines and heavenly instructions from it.… It is said of the people that they hung on Christ, watching the words that came from his mouth, ready to receive them before they came: so with all care and diligence we must hang on the preacher, mark his words, and be ready to receive them into our ears and hearts, even before they are delivered, so eager should we be of the Word. A COMMENTARY UPON THE EPISTLES OF ST. Paul, HEB 2:1.
Rittgers, R. K., & George, T. (Eds.). (2017). Hebrews, James: New Testament (Vol. XIII, p. 29). Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press.
