“Leave not off reading in the Bible, till you find your hearts warmed.
Psalm 119:93: “I will never forget thy precepts, for with them thou hast quickened me.”
Read the word not only as a history, but strive to be affected with it.
Let it not only inform you, but inflame you.
Jer. 23:29: “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord.”
Go not from the word till you can say as those disciples; Luke 24:32: “Did not our hearts burn within us?”
–Thomas Watson, “How We May Read the Scriptures with Most Spiritual Profit,” in The Bible and the Closet: Or How We May Read the Scriptures with the Most Spiritual Profit; and Secret Prayer Successfully Managed, ed. John Overton Choules (Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1842), 39.
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