A Body of Practical Divinity

1. Christ teacheth the Heart. Others may teach the Ear, Christ the Heart, Acts 16.14. Whose heart the Lord opened. All that the Dispensers of the Word can do, is but to work Knowledge, Christ works Grace. They can but give you the light of the Truth, Christ gives you the love of the Truth. They can only teach you what to believe, Christ teacheth how to believe.

2 Christ gives us a Taste of the Word; Ministers may set the Food of the Word before you, and carve it out to you, but it is only Christ causeth you to taste it, 1 Pet. 2.3. If so be ye have tasted, the Lord is gracious. Psal. 34.8. Taste and see that the Lord is good. It is one thing to hear a Truth preached, another thing to taste it; one thing to read a Promise, another thing to taste it. David had got a taste of the Word, Psal. 119.102, 103. Thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter then honey to my mouth. The Apostle calls it [Greek or Hebrew], the savour of Knowledge, 2 Cor. 2.14. The light of Knowledge is one thing, the savour another. Christ makes us taste a savouriness in the Word.

2 Christ gives us a Taste of the Word; Ministers may set the Food of the Word before you, and carve it out to you, but it is only Christ causeth you to taste it, 1 Pet. 2.3. If so be ye have tasted, the Lord is gracious. Psal. 34.8. Taste and see that the Lord is good. It is one thing to hear a Truth preached, another thing to taste it; one thing to read a Promise, another thing to taste it. David had got a taste of the Word,