More Human Effort.

John Owen has written:

“Next, there are those who find it hard to believe that the knowledge which they desire to be filled with, and which they dig so hard for in the writing of the scholars, might be had at first hand from the Scriptures. It seems too easy for them. Do they really think that human books can teach them profound thoughts, subtle arguments, fine distinction, intellectual stimulation, and the increase of learning they want, while the Scriptures are somehow mean, sordid, and boring? This really is the stupidity of the most inexperienced tyros. Haven’t they learned that the Scriptures are the one and only rule for measuring all truth, that nothing at all may be labeled “true” or admitted to the status of truths unless contained in the Scriptures, the fount and source of all truth? What thoughts or concepts concerning religion may ever have any weight or sublimity unless they are extracted from the holy writings?”

(Owen, John. Biblical Theology, Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications 2002, pp. 697-698.)