Excerpt from Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter, Vol. 1 of 2: Considered in Reference to the Whole System of Divine Truth

If there is a saying fitted to express the common basis, not indeed, of the Protestant Church itself, but of all its theology, as contradistinguished from error on the one side and the other, it is that of Luther: "Theology is nothing else but a grammar applied to the words and sentences of the Holy Spirit." To make this application, is hence the first aim of the theologian, sincerely desiring, while he does so, that nothing be misinterpreted, and this always the more, the more he feels pressed by the necessity of the times, and, on the other, encouraged by the fresh helps and acquisitions which criticism is ever bringing to his aid.

The end to be gained by this, is not to lay the foundation of a new theological science, - that would succeed ill in the hands of this generation!

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