inQCQntríbing .r ` ent'l la¢Detnptí0n. 09 lieve its languor. From hence it is, that variety is Chap VI. the fpring of delight, and pleafure is the product of novelty. W! find the pleafure of the firft tafte in learning fomething new, is alwayes moft fenfible. The moft elegant compofitions, and excellent difcourfes, which ravifht at the firlt reading, yet repeated often are naufeous and irkfome. The exercife of the mind on anobje& fully known, is unprofitable, and there- fore tedious: whereas by turningthe thoughts onCome- thing elfe, it may acquire new knowledge. But the Apoille tells us that the Myftery ofour Redemption contains all the Treafures of Wi[dom and Knowledge, Cot. z. to fignify their excellence, and abundance the un- fearchable riches ofGrace are laid up in it. There is infinite variety and perpetual matter for the inquiry of the molt excellent underftanding : no created reafon is able to reach its height or found its depths : by the continual fludy, and increafe in the knowledge of it, themind enjoys a perfevering pleafure, that far exceeds the short vehemence of fenfual delights. 2. It excels other Sciences in the certainty of its Prin- ciple; which is divine Revelation. Humane Sciences arebuilt upon uncertain maximes, which being admit- ted with precipitation, and not confirm'd by fuflìcient Experiments, the Mind is fatisfied with appearances, in tread of real certainty. And from hence 'tis, that upon fevere inquiry into matters of fail, thole do- ctrines which were received in one age are difcover'd to be falte in another. Modern Philofophy difcards the Antient. But the Do&rine of Salvation is the WordofTruth, that came from Heaven, and bears the characters and marks of its Divine defcent. 'Tis con- firmed by theDemonflrationofthe spirit, and ofPower. Y Cor. 2. 4:. 'Tisalways the fame, unchangeable as God. the Author, and Chrift the 'Objeét of it, who is the fame yeflerday, Heb. 33. to
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