Chew the cud; this is the metaphor that is commonly made use of. The beasts that chewed the cud, were clean for food and sacrifice. (Lev. xi. 3.) These creatures gather up their food into a kind of inward bag, and then they sit down and bring it up to chew it over again, and then convey it into the stomach for nourishment. So that Christian whose self and service is a sacrifice acceptable to God, gathers up what he thinks the best in a sermon, and, when retired, chews it over again for his spiritual nourishment and growth in grace. As your considering, thinking man is the only wise man, so your considering, thinking Christian is the only thriving Christian.
Samuel Annesley — "How May We Give Christ a Satisfying Account, Why We Attend upon the Ministry of the Word?" (Matt. 11:9), Casuistical Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, Sermon I, in The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles in the Fields, and in Southwark, ed. James Nichols, 5th ed., vol. IV (London: Thomas Tegg, 1844), p. 182
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