From Chapter XIX of The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, “Directions for Profitable Hearing God’s Word Preached”

Titus 3: Directions for Holy Resolutions and Affections in Hearing

The understanding and memory are but the passage to the Heart, and the Practice is but the expression of the Heart: therefore how to work upon the Heart is the principal business.

Directions:

1. Live under the most convincing lively serious Preacher that possibly you can.
2. Remember that Ministers are the Messengers of Christ, and come to you on his business and in his name. Hear them therefore as his officers, and as men that have more to do with God himself than with the speaker.
3. Remember that this God is instructing you and warning you and treating with you, about no less than the saving of your souls: Come therefore to hear as for your salvation.
4. Remember that you have but a little time to hear in; and you know not, whether ever you shall hear again: Hear therefore as if it were your last.
5. Remember that all these days and Sermons must be reviewed, and you must answer for all that you have heard.
6. Make it your work with diligence to apply the Word as you are hearing it, and to work your own hearts to those suitable resolutions and affections which it bespeaketh.
7. Chew the Cud, and call up all when you come home in secret, and by Meditation Preach it over to your selves.
8. Pray it over all to God and there lament a stupid heart, and put up your complaints to Heaven against it.
9. Go to Christ by faith for the quickenings of his spirit. Make Conscience of Teaching and provoking others.
10. Make Conscience of Teaching and provoking others.

A Legacy of Preaching: Two-Volume Set—Apostles to the Present Day: The Life, Theology, and Method of History’s Great Preachers (pp. 568-569). Zondervan Academic. Kindle Edition.