*But nevertheless, in these condemners of rabbinic blindness, St. _Paul_’s words are remarkably verified, viz. _Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself, for thou that judgest, dost the same thing._――For, take away all that from Christ, which Christian doctors call enthusiasm, suppose him to be only an _outward distant_ heavenly prince, no more really in us, than our high cathedrals are in the _third heavens_, but only by an invisible hand from his throne on high, some way or other raising and helping _great scholars_, or great _temporal_ powers, to make a rock in every nation for his church to stand upon; suppose all this (which is the very marrow of modern divinity) and then you have that very _outward_ Christ, and that very _outward_ kingdom; which the carnal Jew dreamed of, and for the sake of which, the spiritual Christ was then nailed to the cross, and is still crucified by the new-rising Jew in the Christian church. Let then the eager searcher into _words_ for wisdom, the book-devourer, the opinion-broker, the exalter of human reason, and every projecting builder of religious systems, be told, that the thirst and pride of being _learnedly wise_ in the things of God, is keeping up the grossest ignorance of them, and is nothing else but _Eve_’s old serpent, and does no better work in the church of Christ, than her thirst after wisdom did in the paradise of God.――Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth, is the only way, by which any man ever did, or ever can attain divine knowledge, and divine goodness.――To knock at any other door, is like asking life of that, which is itself dead, or praying to him for bread, who has nothing but stones to give. Say not, that it is only the _illiterate_ enthusiast, that condemns human learning in the gospel kingdom of God. For when he condemns the blindness and mischief of Popish logic and criticism, he has all the learned Protestant world with him; and when he lays the same charge to the Protestant learning, he has a much larger kingdom of Popish great scholars, affirming the same thing. So that the private person, charging human learning with so much mischief to the church, is so far from being led by _enthusiasm_, that he is led by all the _church-learning_ that is in the world.