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Here then we have an use of direction how to carry our selves in reading, ¹and studying holy truths, especially the sacred mysteries of the Gospel, how shall we study them? We think to break into them with the engine of our wit, and to understand them, and never come to God for his spirit: God will curse such proud attempts. Who •nowes the things of man ⟨p. 29⟩but the spirit of a man? and who knows the things of God, but the spirit of God? Therefore in studying the Gospel, let us come with a spirit of faith, and a spirit of humility, and meekness there is no breaking into these things with the strength of parts; That hath been the ground of so many heresies as have been in the Church. Only Christ […] the key of David that shutteth and no man openeth, and openeth and no man shutteth, he hath the key of the Scripture, and the key to open the understanding. And to press this point a little; if eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things of the ⟨p. 30⟩Gospel without the revelation of the spirit; then we must come with this mind, when we come to hear the things of the Gospel: Lord, without thy holy spirit they are all as a clasped book, they are hidden mysteries to me, though they be revealed in the Gospel. If my heart be shut to them, they are all hidden to me.

Here then we have an use of direction how to carrie our selves in reading, ¹and studying holy truths, especially the sacred mysteries of the Gospel, how shall we study them? Wee thinke to breake into them with the engine of our wit, and to understand them, and never come to God for his spirit: God will curse such proud attempts. Who •nowes the things of man ⟨p. 29⟩but the spirit of a man? and who knowes the things of God, but the spirit of God? Therefore in studying the Gospell, let us come with a spirit of faith, and a spirit of humility, and meeknesse there is no breaking into these things with the strength of parts; That hath been the ground of so many heresies as have beene in the Church. Only Christ the key of David that shutteth and no man openeth, and openeth and no man shutteth, he hath the key of the Scripture, and the key to open the understanding. And to presse this poynt a little; if eye hath not seene, nor eare heard, nor hath entred into the heart of man to conceive, the things of the