Sublimity of the Scriptures.
A LL other sciences are but poor and beggarly elements if compared with this. What doth the naturalist but only busy himself in digging a little drossy knowledge out of the entrails of the earth? The astronomer who ascends highest mounts no higher than the celestial bodies—the stars and planets—which are but the outworks of heaven. But the Scripture pierceth much farther, and lets us into heaven itself; there it discovers the majesty and glory of God upon His throne; the eternal Son of God sitting at His right hand, making a prevailing and authoritative intercession for us; the glittering train of cherubim and seraphim, an innumerable company of angels, and the spirits of just men made perfect; so that, indeed, when you have this Book laid open before you, you have heaven itself, and all the inconceivable glories of it, laid open to your view.—Bishop Hopkins.