May 14, 2007

Wardlaw (1779-1853) on Humility and Interpretation

"An humble docility of spirit is one of the first requisites to the discernment of divine truth. Under the divine teaching promised to believing prayer, a babe may comprehend, what a philosopher, who scorns to ask the promised illumination, may misconceive and pervert to his destruction."
Ralph Wardlaw, Two Essays (Glasgow, 1830), p. 294.

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