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Excerpt from The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of the Late Rev. William Jones, M.A., Minister of Nayland, Suffolk, Vol. 3 of 6: To Which Is Prefixed a Short Account of His Life and Writings
Every science hath its own elements; it hath a sort of alphabet peculiar to itself; which must be learned in the first place, before any judgment can be formed, or any pleasure received when that science is treated of for none but fools are enamoured with what they do not understand; and few things can be understood without being first learned. How can I understand, said the Ethiopian Eunuch, unless some man should guide me? When he looked into the prophet Isaiah, he had a book before him, in which it frequently hap pens that the thing spoken of is not the thing intend cd, and he knew not how to distinguish: (f whom speaketh the Prophet this 2 said he; of himself; or of some other man 9 Therefore he wanted one to guide him. But the case is so particular, that something more than the guidance of man is necessary; and the royal prophet was sensible of it, when he said, Open thou mine eyes, that I may see the wondrous things of thy zaw.-even in men of honest minds, well affected to the truth, there was found a slowness of heart, which oui' blessed Saviour found it necessary to re move by his own immediate grace, before his discourse could be understood then opened he their understand ings, that they might understand the scripture.
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