"It is God's word that doth convert, quicken, comfort, and build up, or, on the other side, would and beat down. What is the reason that there was so great an alteration made by the ministry of Christ and his disciples, by the apostles and others after them; yea, by Luther, and other ministers of reformed churches? They preached not traditions of elders, as the scribes, nor men's inventions, as papists, but the pure word of God. The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierceth, the more kindly it worketh."

-- William Gouge on Heb. 13:7