For the Law made nothing perfect, but the ringing in of a better hope did. Heb. vii. 19. But ye are come to mount Zion, and unto he city of the living God, the heavenly Jerualem, and to an innumerable company of anels; to the general Assembly and Church of he first-born, which are written in heaven, and o God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just nen made perfect. xii. 22 to 24.

natural Wisdom and Reason is inferior to the Wisdom of God, and insufficient for his Salvation.

I SAID days shall speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding. Job xxxii. 7, 8.

God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he which we cannot comprehend. xxxvii. 5.

With God is terrible majesty: touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power and in judgement, and in plenty of justice; he will not afflict; -men do therefore fear him; he respecteth not any that are wise of heart. xxxvii. 22 to 24.

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts, or who hath given understanding to the heart? xxxviii. 36.

Then Job answered the Lord, and said, I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,

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He that teacheth man knowledge shall not he now? The Lord knoweth the thoughts of han, that they are vanity. xciv. 10, 11. Through thy precepts I get understanding; herefore I hate every false way. cxix. 104. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and an not to thine own understanding. In all thy ays acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy aths. Prov. iii. 5, 6.

The froward is an abomination to the Lord; ut his secret is with the righteous. iii. 32. As his ways are plain unto the holy, so are ney stumbling-blocks unto the wicked. Eccles. xxix. 24.

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, nd prudent in their own sight! Isaiah v. 21. I will proceed to do a marvellous work and a -onder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall erish, and the understanding of their prudent clay; for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Isaiah xxix. 14; 16.

And an highway shall be there, and a way; and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;-the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err herein. xxxv. 8. I am the Lord, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. xlii. 8.

Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. 1. 10.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts; neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. lv. 8.

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things; prudent, and he shall know them: for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall fall therein. Hosea xiv. 9.

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O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom ad knowledge of God! How unsearchable are s judgements, and his ways past finding out! r who hath known the mind of the Lord, or ho hath been his counsellor? Rom. xi. 33. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of e wise, and will bring to nothing the underanding of the prudent, because the foolishness God is wiser than men; and the weakness of -od is stronger than men. For ye see your alling, brethren; how that not many wise men Eter the flesh, not many mighty, not many oble are called. But God hath chosen the Dolish things of the world to confound the ise; and God hath chosen the weak things f the world to confound the things that are mighty; and base things of the world, and mings which are despised, hath God chosen; rea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. 1 Cor. i. 19; 25, 26; 27 to 29.