Resolution No. 8

Resolved, to act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings as others; and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.

Jonathon Edwards

Thinking About Hobbits

You do not understand a passage well enough to preach it unless you can make it a metaphor. If you can’t put the idea of a passage into a metaphor, you don’t really understand it. And you are certainly not ready to preach it” (Edwards, Deep Preaching, p. 126).