Our opinion, and our sense, often deceive us, and discover but little.
What signifies making a great dispute about abstruse and obscure matters, for not knowing of which we shall not be questioned at the day of judgment.
It is a great folly for us to neglect things profitable and necessary, and willingly to busy ourselves about those which are curious and hurtful.—We have eyes and see not.
2. And what need we concern ourselves about questions of philosophy?
He to whom the Eternal Word speaketh, is set at liberty from a multitude of opinions.
From one Word are all things, and this one all things speak: and this is the beginning which also speaks to us, John viii. 23.
Without this Word no one understands or judges rightly.
He to whom all things are one [Footnote], and who draws all things to one,—and who sees all things in one,—may be steady in heart, and peaceably repose in God.
[Footnote: The Author seems here to allude to that passage of St. Paul, 1 Corinthians ii. 2. where he says, "That he desired to know nothing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.">[