# “Preaching doctrine and preaching Christ” by Robert Murray M’Cheyne

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“There is a wide difference between _preaching doctrine_ and _preaching Christ._

Mr. M‘Cheyne preached all the doctrines of Scripture as understood by our Confession
of Faith, dwelling upon ruin by the Fall, and recovery by the Mediator.

‘The things of the human heart, and the things of the Divine Mind,’ were in substance
his constant theme. From personal experience of deep temptation, he could lay open
the secrets of the heart, so that he once said, ‘He supposed the reason why some
of the worst sinners in Dundee had come to hear him was, because his heart exhibited
so much likeness to theirs.’

Still it was not doctrine alone that he preached; it was _Christ_, from whom all
doctrine shoots forth as rays from a centre.”

–Robert Murray M’Cheyne, **[_Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M’Cheyne_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851510841?tag=toletaupanre-20),**
Ed. Andrew A. Bonar (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1844/1966), 65.

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