The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe. Д«ut while the subject humbles the mind, it also expands it. No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God. But when we come to this master-science, finding that our plumb-line cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild assвЂ™s colt and with solemn exclamation, вЂI am but of yesterday, and know nothingвЂ™. Other subjects we can compass and grapple with in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the thought, вЂBehold I am wiseвЂ™. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.

I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study of GodвЂ™s elect is God the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. It has been said by someone that вЂthe proper study of mankind is manвЂ™. On January 7th, 1855, the minister of New Park Street Chapel, Southwark, opened his morning sermon as follows:

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