Quest. CXLVI. Is the Scripture fit for all christians to read, being so obscure?
Answ. 1. The essentials and points necessary to salvation are plain.
2. We are frequently and vehemently commanded to delight in it, and meditate in it day and night; to search it; to teach it our very children, speaking of it at home and abroad, lying down and rising up, and to write it on the posts of our houses, and on our doors, &c.
3. It is suited to the necessity and understanding of the meanest, to give light to the simple, and to make the very foolish wise.[396]
4. The ancient fathers and christians were all of this mind.
5. All the christian churches of the world have been used to read it openly to all, even to the simplest; and if they may hear it, they may read the same words which they hear.
6. God blessed the ignorant Ethiopian eunuch when he found him reading the Scriptures, though he knew not the sense of what he read, and sent him Philip to instruct him and convert him.
7. Timothy was educated in the knowledge of the Scriptures in his childhood.
8. That which is written to and for all men, may be read by all that can; but the Scripture was written to and for all,[397]——&c.
Object. But there are many things in it hard to be understood.