The best kind of sermon

Seek not so much to have thy ear tickled as thy understanding enlightened. The painful bee passeth by roses and violets and sits upon thyme; so shouldest thou rather choose to feed on plain and wholesome doctrine, though hot and biting, than on the quirks and flowers of man's invention. In a word, learn evermore to judge that sermon best, though plain, whereby thou understandest. [Nehemiah Rogers]