A Body of Practical Divinity

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; John 8.12. I am the light of the world, he that follows me shall have lumen vitae, the light of life. By Nature we are dead, therefore unfit for teaching; who will make an Oration to the Dead? But Christ teacheth them that are dead, he gives the light of life; as when Lazarus was dead, Christ said, Come forth, and he made the dead to hear, Lazarus came forth. So when Christ saith to the dead Soul, Come forth of the Grave of Unbelief, he hears Christ's voice, and comes forth; it is the Light of Life. The Philosophers saith, Calor & lux concrescunt, ⟨p. 98⟩Light and Heat increase together. 'Tis true here; where Christ comes with his Light, there is the heat of Spiritual Life going along with it.

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