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Dr. Buchanan’s Sermons, pp. 249-251. See some valuable remarks in Scott’s continuation of Milner, vol ii. pp. 385, 386. ‘I am confidently persuaded,’—says Dr. South,—‘that there is no endowment, no natural gift whatever, with which the great Father of lights has furnished the mind of man, but that it may, in its highest operations, be sanctified, and rendered subservient to this great work of the Ministry. Real religion engages no man, particularly no Minister, to be dull, to lounge, and to be indolent; but on the contrary, it stirs up all the active powers of the soul in designing and bringing about great and valuable ends. Leighton declared—‘that there could not be too much learning, if it were but sanctified.’ At the same time pointing to his books, he said—‘One devout thought is worth them all,’—meaning, no doubt, that no accumulation of knowledge is comparable in value to internal holiness.’ Life by Rev. J. N. Pearson, p. 120.