An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

You will say, How, or when doth it appear, that we are or have been taught of God? I shall answer that query in four things.

First, If you are or have been taught of God, his teaching unteacheh or emptieth you, & that in a threefold respect. First, of your own carnal principles. The great business of divine teaching, is to unteach, ⟨p. 343⟩to take men off from their own Will and Reason, from their own Rules, as also from those Customs which they have received by tradition from their fathers. If you would appear as taught of God, you must lay down all these. The teachings of grace empty the soul of what it hath taken up by Nature. Secondly, the teachings of God empty the soul of all self-righteousness. If ye be taught of God ye will be nothing in your selves. Paul, before the teachings of God came, had confidence in the flesh, and boasted in his own righteousness; but when he was taught of God, he threw off all those. Thirdly, If ye are taught of God, that will certainly unteach and empty you of all unrighteousness. The Apostle speaks fully to that (Ephes. 4.20, 21.) Ye have not so learned Christ, if so be that ye have been taught as the truth is in Jesus. If ye have been divinely taught, then this teaching hath emptied you of the old man; as of all self-righteousness so of all unrighteousness towards others. It is impossible any should take in the teachings of God, and yet hold any sinful practisings.

First, If you are or have been taught of God, his teaching unteacheh or emptyeth you, & that in a threefold respect. First, of your own carnal principles. The great business of divine teaching, is to unteach, ⟨p. 343⟩to take men off from their own Will and Reason, from their own Rules, as also from those Customes which they have received by tradition from their fathers. If you would appear as taught of God, you must lay down all these. The teachings of grace empty the soul of what it hath taken up by Nature. Secondly, the teachings of God empty the soul of all self-righteousness. If ye be taught of God ye will be nothing in your selves. Paul, before the teachings of God came, had confidence in the flesh, and boasted in his own righteousness; but when he was taught of God, he threw off all those. Thirdly, If ye are taught of God, that will certainly unteach and empty you of all unrighteousness. The Apostle speakes fully to that (