HUMILITY | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1858

HUMILITY.

At a house near Preston Castle, in England, the non-conformist ministers used to meet for mutual conference. At one of these meetings that difficult text, [Rom. viii, 19-22] was spoken from. When it came to John Bunyan's turn to speak, he only said, "The Scriptures are wiser than I;" intimating that the meaning was beyond his comprehension. Thus Luther used to say, "The meaning of this Scripture I could never find out." What a reproof to those conceited persons, who, without a tenth part of the scriptural knowledge these eminent men possessed, have assurance enough to decide, in the most dogmatical manner, on any part of the word of God.