A Body of Practical Divinity

4. Christ teacheth easily. Others teach with difficulty. Difficulty in finding out a Truth, and in inculcating it, Isa. 28.10. Precept must be upon precept, line upon line; some may Teach all their lives, and the Word take no impression. They complain as Isa. 49.4. I have spent my labour in vain. Plough on Rocks. But Christ the great Prophet teacheth with ease. He can with the least touch of his Spirit convert. He can say, Let there be light; with a word he conveys Grace.

5. Christ when he teacheth, makes Men willing to learn. Men may teach others, but they have no mind to learn, Prov. 1.7. Fools despise instruction; they rage at the Word, as if a Patient should rage at the Physician when he brings him a Cordial: thus backward are Men to their own Salvation. But Christ makes his People a willing people, Psal. 110.3. they prize Knowledge, and hang it as a Jewel upon their Ear. Those that Christ teacheth, say as Isa. 2.3. Come let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in them: and as Acts 10.33. We are all here present before God, to hear all things commanded.

6. Christ when he Teacheth, doth not only illuminate, but animate. He doth so teach, as he doth quicken;