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Sermon on Self-denial, Works, pp. 809, 810. After warning against ‘affectation of new senses and meanings of Scripture, and picking exceptions at the pious and solid expositions of other learned men’—he adds this admirable advice—‘Whenever we judge it necessary to interpose any opinion or sense of our own, let us—First—do it with humility and reverence, and with reservation of honour and reverence to others from whom we differ; not magisterially with an eurhka (eureka!), as if we spoke oracles rather than opinions. Secondly, let us beware departing from “the analogy of faith,” and that “knowledge which is according to godliness,” into diversions of fancy and critical curiosity; instead, let us ever resolve to judge those expositions best and soundest, which are most orthodox, practical, and heavenly, and most tend to further duty and godliness.’