Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 24:32

32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures.

There was a mighty difference no doubt, betwixt Christ's Preaching, and his Ministers; he Preached as one who had Authority, not as the Scribes, not as ordinary Ministers, but with more Majesty and Power; but as to the saving Efficacy of his Words, that depended upon his Will, where he pleased to put forth such Efficacious Grace, there his Words became effectual, where he did not, they were not so: Christ Preached in the hearing of hundreds, who yet continued Unbelievers, and Perished in their Unbelief. There is a great deal of difference also between one Minister's Preaching and anothers; some kind of Preaching of its self, makes Mens Hearts to Freeze, others make them to Burn, but where Preaching makes our Hearts to Burn within us, Christ throws in the Coal, which the best Preacher doth but blow up: only the Spirit of God is pleased to Work (as Erasmus saith) secundum quod nactus est Organon, according to the Instrument it worketh by, and to Concur with Rational and Spiritual means, in order to Rational and Spiritual ends. But wherever any Soul is Baptized with Fire at hearing a Sermon, it is also Baptized with the Holy Ghost. Christ will not always Cure Blind Eyes with Clay and Spittle (tho he did it once.) These were Disciples before the Fire was kindled in their Hearts, Christ's Preaching did but blow it up. We ought so to speak in our Preaching, so to open, and apply the Scriptures as our Discourses, may have a rational tendency, to make the Hearts of our hearers to Burn within them, not so as to make them Dead, and Sleepy, and Cold, or luke-warm: and then to know that it must be Christ's Work to Inflame them, when we have said all that we can say.