Sibbes on the importance of preaching a strawberry-rhubarb theology:[W]itty things only, as they are spoken to the brain, so they rest in the brain, and sink no deeper; but the heart (which vain and obnoxious men love not to be touched), that is the mark a faithful teacher aims to hit.
(I would only add, at the end: "through the brain"!)
--Richard Sibbes, in the preface to John Smith, Introduction to the Creed, cited in Ralph Turnbull, Jonathan Edwards the Preacher (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958), 54.
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