You are particularly requested to observe, further,--that singular pains have been taken to mystify this entire subject. It has been a favourite device to multiply difficulties,--real or imaginary,--and so, to create a miserable sense of the dangers which fairly hem the subject in,--in order to render more palatable a desperate escape from them all. Thus, we are told of the risks to which Grammatical nicety, and Rhetorical accommodation expose us; and again, the snares into which the Logical method may betray. Metaphysical aid, we are assured, mystifies; and even Learning, (would to Heaven we had a little more of it!) obscures the sense[451]. Might we just take the liberty of suggesting that the study of the exploded works of German unbelievers, (of which Germany herself, thank GOD! is beginning to be ashamed,) on the part of men of very moderate intellectual powers, however wise in their own conceit; and with no previous Theological knowledge to guide them,--is another yet more fruitful avenue to error?... Next, we are threatened with the manifold inconveniences which would ensue from the discovery that there is more than one sense in Holy Scripture,--(_that_ one sense being assumed to be, _not_ the sense intended by its Divine Author, but the sense which the first hearers may be supposed to have put upon it[452].) "If words may have more than one meaning," (it is not very logically argued,) "they may have _any_ meaning[453]." We are told a great deal about "the growth of ideas;" and of human prejudices; and of "the disturbing influence of Theological terms."--But all this kind of thing, it will be perceived at once, is altogether foreign to the matter in hand. _Ought Scripture to be interpreted like any other book,--or not_? _That_ is the real question! _Has Scripture only one meaning_, or _more_? _That_ is the point in dispute! Above all, _What is the true principle of Scripture Interpretation_? _That_ is the only thing we have to discover! Now, as for _how_ the principles of Divine Interpretation are to be discovered, it is undeniable that there can be no surer way than by discovering _what is the method of the HOLY GHOST_; by inquiring, what is the method of our SAVIOUR CHRIST, and of His Evangelists, and of His Apostles?