[T]he Scots encouraged the habit of listening to the preacher. People were expected to be able to repeat the main points of the preacher’s sermon to a master or parents. Those who heard the word preached were under a divine obligation to meditate on it and to recall it to their hearts. Henderson said: “Therefore pray to the Lord, that whenever ye come to hear the word, ye may understand what is spoken to you and lay it up in your heart, that ye may have faith to believe, that ye may keep it into your memory, and the Spirit may bring it to your remembrance and that ye may have the word of promise also into your mouths to bring it out there as need is.” Henderson warned his listeners about the pitiful problem that sometimes neither the preachers nor hearers have faith as they deliver and listen to preaching.

L. Charles Jackson, Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters: The Work of Alexander Henderson, 116.