" First, then, Puritan preaching was thoroughly biblical. The Puritan preacher found his message in God’s Word. “The faithfull Minister, like unto Christ, [is] one that preacheth nothing but the word of God,” said Puritan Edward Dering.[1] John Owen agreed: “The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word.”[2] As Miller Maclure noted, “For the Puritans, the sermon is not just hinged to Scripture; it quite literally exists inside the Word of God; the text is not in the sermon, but the sermon is in the text.... Put summarily, listening to a sermon is being in the Bible. "
― Joel R. Beeke , Puritan Evangelism: A Biblical Approach
![Joel R. Beeke quote : First, then, Puritan preaching was thoroughly biblical. The Puritan preacher found his message in God’s Word. “The faithfull Minister, like unto Christ, [is] one that preacheth nothing but the word of God,” said Puritan Edward Dering.[1] John Owen agreed: “The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word.”[2] As Miller Maclure noted, “For the Puritans, the sermon is not just hinged to Scripture; it quite literally exists inside the Word of God; the text is not in the sermon, but the sermon is in the text.... Put summarily, listening to a sermon is being in the Bible.](/image/2589106.jpg)