Sermons, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sermons, Vol. 2There is a manner of Divinity in such a saying as this! It prepossesses the mind in favour of its Supernal origin. Affirmations of this order belong not to earth. It is not thus that we speak and think. We boast, indeed, our aphorisms, and the invention of any important one entitles to the distinction of a preeminent wisdom. We can digest into them very useful knowledge: they become principles of judgment and rules of life. But when we attempt to seize the conception of a God, we can only succeed, and then most imperfectly, by laborious disser tation. Our reasonings are long and abstruse. Refinement follows refinement, and explanation Oppresses explana tion. The Lord always might answer us out of the whirlwind, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Nothing, therefore, of this kind can we condense. The sentence, the word, cannot be found to characterise Him. Our ideas are feeble, and this is seen in their diffuseness. They have no fulness, no certitude, in them. We cannot pursue them steadily nor pronounce them confidently. And therefore it is not in man to explain his ideas in any sort like this He cannot strike out the single thought and term Of such a delineation. He speaketh of the earth 1 This B.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.