Seventhly, who teacheth like him? that is, so effectually, so efficaciously. As God hath authority to charge his teachings upon us at our peril to receive them, so he hath a power to work our hearts to the receiving of them. Who teacheth thus like God? The M••isters of Christ teach in the authority of God, and charge all to receive what they say in his Name, but they cannot give an effect to the charge (Isa. 48.17.) He teacheth to profit. One translation saith, He teacheth things profitable. But that is a lean rendering, for so doth every Minister that teacheth as he ought; but our rendering carrieth the efficacy of the word of God in it, He teacheth to profit; that is, he can make the dullest Scholar learn, he can make the most stubborn heart to submit. Christ speaking of this great work of God in teaching, ⟨p. 342⟩saith (John 6.45.) No man cometh unto me, except the Father draw him. What is that drawing? It is this teaching, as ye may see (vers. 45.) Every one therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh unto me. That is, every one whom the Father hath vouchsafed to teach and instruct, that man cometh to me, that is, he believeth and obeyeth the Gospel, and submitteth both in judgment and practise. Every one that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh to me: There is not one whom God hath undertaken to teach, that doth miscarry. (Isa. 32.4.) The heart of the rash shall understand knowledge; or, the heart of the hasty. Now hasty and rash persons, are heady and inconsiderate persons, and therefore none of the wisest; they usually have little judgment or discretion, who are much in passion; but God can make the heart of the rash to understand knowledge; that is, he can make them understand and know things aright, who seem most uncapable of, and are naturally at the greatest distance from a rightness of knowledge and understanding.
Seventhly, who teacheth like him? that is, so effectually, so efficatiously. As God hath authority to charge his teachings upon us at our peril to receive them, so he hath a power to work our hearts to the receiving of them. Who teacheth thus like God? The M••isters of Christ teach in the authority of God, and charge all to receive what they say in his Name, but they cannot give an effect to the charge (Isa. 48.17.) He teacheth to profit. One translation saith, He teacheth things profitable. But that is a lean rendring, for so doth every Minister that teacheth as he ought; but our rendring carrieth the efficacy of the word of God in it, He teacheth to profit; that is, he can make the dullest Scholar learn, he can make the most stubborn heart to submit. Christ speaking of this great work of God in teaching, ⟨p. 342⟩saith (John 6.45.) No man cometh unto me, except the Father draw him. What is that drawing? It is this teaching, as ye may see (vers. 45.) Every one therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh unto me. That is, every one whom the Father hath vouchsafed to teach and instruct, that man cometh to me, that is, he believeth and obeyeth the Gospel, and submitteth both in judgment and practise. Every one that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh to me: There is not one whom God hath undertaken to teach, that doth miscarry. (Isa. 32.4.) The heart of the rash shall understand knowledge; or, the heart of the hasty. Now hasty and rash persons, are heady and inconsiderate persons, and therefore none of the wisest; they usually have little judgment or discretion, who are much in passion; but God can make the heart of the rash to understand knowledge; that is, he can make them understand and know things aright, who seem most uncapable of, and are naturally at the greatest distance from a rightness of knowledge and understanding.
