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Dangerous Curiosity

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 3.

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Dangerous Curiosity.

Be not curious to search into the secrets of God: pick not the lock where he hath allowed no key. He that will be fitting every cloud, may be smitten with a thunderbolt; and he that will be too familiar with God's secrets, may be overwhelmed in his judgments.
Adam would curiously increase his knowledge; therefore Adam shamefully lost his goodness. The Bethshemites would needs pry into the ark of God; therefore the hand of God slew about fifty thousand of them.
Therefore, hover not about this flame, lest we scorch our wings. For my part, seeing God hath given me his word, I will carefully improve myself by what he hath revealed, and not curiously inquire into, or after, what he hath reserved.