that much human learning is not necessary for this : on the contrary, human learning, if unsancfified, is rather an impedi- ment to this, especially if it be relied upon, as it too often is, as a sufficient instructor, and a safe guide\ There is no safe guide but the Holy Spirit: and " he often reveals unto babes and sucklings the things which are hid from the wise and prudent^" The way to seek divine knowledge is, to study the Holy Scriptures with humility and prayer'' : and if you do so study them, you shall " be guided into all truth," and " be made wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus."]
2. Be not satisfied with indistinct and narrow views of it —
[There are in the Gospel " heights and depths" that can never be explored. We may not indeed have different truths brought to our view: but the same truths will be brought with ten-fold clearness and power to the soul. It is the same sun which lights us amidst the gloom of winter, and in the height of summer: but how different are the sensations it excites, and the effects it produces! Yet of these feelings and these effects the peasant is as sensible as the greatest monarch upon earth. Know ye then your privilege, every one of you, and seek the enjoyment of it: and let every one of you labour and pray, that " his light be as that of the sun, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day"^."]
a 1 Cor. i. 18—21. b Matt. xi. 25.
<= Prov. ii. 1 — 6. d Prov. iv. 18.