yet, like the lean kine that had
devoured the fat, are never the fatter or more well-favoured.

It is no wonder, then, that these are the first principles that we must
learn in Christ's school, the very A B C of Christianity: "Learn of me,
for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls,"
Matth. xi. 29. This is the great Prophet sent of the Father into the world
to teach us, whom he hath, with a voice from heaven, commanded us to hear:
"This is my well-beloved Son, hear him." Should not the fame and report of
such a Teacher move us? He was testified of very honourably, long before
he came, that he had the Spirit above measure, that he had "the tongue of
the learned;" (Isa. l. 4.) that he was a greater prophet than Moses,
(Deut. xviii. 15, 18.) that is, the wonderful Counsellor of heaven and
earth, (Isa. ix. 6.) the "Witness to the people," a Teacher and "Leader to
the people." And then, when he came, he had the most glorious testimony
from the most glorious persons,--the Father and the Holy Ghost,--in the most
solemn manner that ever the world heard of, Matth. xvii. 5. "Behold, a
voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased; hear ye him." Now, this is our Master, our Rabbi, Matth.
xxiii. 8. This is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession (Heb.
iii. 1.); "the light of the world and life of men," John viii. 12. and vi.
33, 51. Having, then, such a Teacher and Master, sent us from heaven, may
we not glory in our Master? But some may suppose, that he who came down
from heaven, filled with all the riches and treasures of heavenly wisdom,
should reveal in his school unto his disciples, all the mysteries and
profound secrets of nature and art, about which the world hath ploded
since the first taste of the tree of knowledge, and beaten out their
brains to the vexation of all their spirits, without any fruit, but the
discovery of the impossibility of knowing, and the increase of sorrow by
searching. Who would not expect, when the Wisdom of God descends among
men, but that he should show unto the world that wisdom, in the
understanding of all the works of God, which all men have been pursuing in
vain; that he by whom all things were created, and so could unbowel and
manifest all their hidden causes and virtues, all their admirable and
wonderful qualities and operations, as easily by a word, as he made them
by a word; who would not expect, I say, but that he s