sure they use unsound words to express sound matter. The clothes
should be shaped to the person. Truth is plain and simple; let words of
truth also be full of simplicity. I say no more but leave that upon you
that you hold fast even the very words of the Scriptures and be not
bewitched by the vain pretensions of spirit--all spirit,--pure and spiritual
service,--and such like, to the casting off of the word of truth, as
_letter_, as _flesh_. And such is the high attainment of some in these
days--an high attainment indeed, and a mighty progress in the way to
destruction--the very last discovery of that Antichrist and man of sin. Oh,
make much of the Scripture for you shall neither read not hear the like of
it in the world! Other books may have sound matter, but there is still
something, in manner or words, unsound. No man can speak to you truth in
such plainness and simplicity, in such soundness also. But here is both
sound matter, and sound words, the truth holden out truly; health and
salvation holden out in as wholesome a matter as is possible. Matter and
manner are both divine.

Lecture VII.

Of The Name Of God

Exod. iii. 13, 14.--"And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come
unto the children of Israel and shall say unto them, The God of
your fathers hath sent me unto you and they shall say to me, What
is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses,
I AM THAT I AM and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."

We are now about this question, What God is. But who can answer it? Or, if
answered, who can understand it? It should astonish us in the very entry
to think that we are about to speak and to hear of his majesty whom "eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of any
creature to consider what he is." Think ye that blind men could have a
pertinent discourse of light and colours? Would they form any suitable
notion of that they had never seen, and which cannot be known but by
seeing? What an ignorant speech would a deaf man make of sound which a man
cannot so much as know what it is but by hearing of it? How then can we
speak of God who dwells in such inaccessible light that though we had our
eyes opened, yet they are far less proportioned to that resplendent
brightness, than a blind eye is to the sun's light?

It used to be a question. If there be God?