Excerpt from Village Sermons: Doctrinal and Practical
Your attention is requested this morning to some remarks on the proper manner of studying the scriptures. You profess to receive the sacred writings, my friends, as the only safe standard of christian belief and practice. You do not consider yourselves answerable to any earthly tribunal for the sentiments you derive from their pages. You must therefore realize the great importance of ascertaining their true meaning. To aid you in the successful discharge of this primary duty, will be the design of my present discourse.
1. If then you would obtain the true meaning of the scriptures, you must search them with earnestness. You must adopt such methods of study, and resort to such means of explanation, and spend so much time in the examination, as will ensure success in your undertaking. Let me illustrate this observation. Suppose then you begin the investigation of the christian religion with the gospel of Matthew.
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