"I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." --- 1 Corinthians 2:2.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, . . .". --- Psalms 111:10.
"The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peacable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." --- James 3:17.
"Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth." --- 1 Corinthians 8:1.
Christ cricified, and he alone, is the power and wisdom of God, him all Christians, and especially divines, should make particular practice to study well. Were our faith built on human wisdom, then surely carnal philosophers would be the greatest believers; whereas they are sometimes the worst infidels, or at best the most silly and faithless people in times of distress.
And besides, their being puffed up is another evidence that they have not the true wisdom; for the wisdom from above is only with the lowly babes, who pray for it earnestly, Proverbs 11:2; Matthew 11:25.
What would all knowledge avail us, then, without the knowledge of Christ? One spark of pure love yields more power than all the stores of human learning. May the lord Jesus shed his love abroad in my heart! Him I have determined only to know; his love at the cross I account my greatest wisdom and glory.
They that would grow divinely wise
Must with his fear begin:
Our fairest proof of knowledge lies
In hating ev'ry sin.