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Wilkins, Eccl. p. 44. Dr. Watts has remarked,—‘It is of vast advantage for improvement of knowledge and saving time, for a young man to have the most proper books for his reading, recommended by a judicious friend.’—On the Improvement of the Mind, ch. iv. This and ch. v. abound with most valuable instructions upon Christian study. Professor Franck accompanies the same advice to young students with the following admonitions. ‘They should read little, but read that little well; they should prefer those works, whose tendency is to lay a solid foundation, and prove them in a sedate and attentive manner; never commencing any other book, until the subject of the former is perfectly understood and digested. If these monitions are neglected, they may become sciolists [An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge], but never men of learning; sophists [a teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning], but never truly wise; the mind will be possessed with an intemperate thirst after “knowledge that puffs up,” and filled with unholy indifference for “the wisdom that comes from above.” Franck’s Guide to the Reading of the Scriptures, ch. iii.