John Frame has convincingly made the case that doctrine and application (or the meaning of a text and its application) cannot be neatly separated (See his Doctrine of the Knowledge of God). The great preacher Jonathan Edwards understood this. And so it was said of him (by ‘Rabbi’ John Duncan):

[He is a preacher] whose doctrine is all application, and his application is all doctrine.

We do well to follow the model that Edwards (and many of the Puritans) set, not only in preaching, but in all our study, meditation, and conversation.

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