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Paul's maxim: "The natural man discerneth not the things of the Spirit of God." Forgive my laughing; but it does so remind me of Douce Davie Deans. I will make you professor of spiritual insight, &c., &c., &c. Now is not this disgusting? Might I not justly call the man a "profane dog" who approved of it?
That it is the privilege of him that discerneth the Lord's body, and that no man is to deny him it, is also by the text as evident, 'and so let him eat, because he is worthy. And then to father these their doings upon God, when yet he hath not commanded it, neither in the New Testament nor the Old.
But the sight of the heart is illumined. It discerneth and discovereth the divine Kingdom. It is everlasting and eternal. Praise God, therefore, that the sight of thy heart is illumined, and the hearing of thy mind responsive.
There they rested, building such shelters as they could, and said to one another: "This is the End, for Shaun discerneth that there are no more gods, and before us lieth the marsh and old age hath come upon us."
It does not indeed produce any astonishment, although it awakens extreme regret, that one of the most obvious effects resulting from the publication of the Gospel of Christ should be so unblushingly denied by this class of mankind. "The natural man discerneth not the things of the Spirit of God, because they are spiritually discerned."
What they need is a deep and pungent conviction, a true repentance, a living faith and a sound conversion. May God hasten it in His time. "He that is spiritual," says our apostle, "judgeth or discerneth all things, yet he himself is judged or discerned of no man."
The presiding and moderating in the human order, that is, by a coactive power to compass the turbulent, to avoid all confusion and contention, and to cause a peaceable proceeding and free deliberation, pertaineth indeed to princes, and so did Constantine preside in the same council of Nice. There is a twofold judgment which discerneth and judgeth of faith.
And the younger brother called to the elder on the bank, saying, "Stand still until the dawn of day; and when Ra ariseth, I shall judge with thee before Him, and He discerneth between the good and the evil. For I shall not be with thee any more for ever; I shall not be in the place in which thou art; I shall go to the valley of the acacia."
Nature discerneth the law, and the righteousness thereof; yea, it discerneth it, and approveth thereof; that is, that the righteousness of it is the best and only way to life, and therefore the natural will and power of the flesh, as here you see in the Pharisee, do steer their course by that for eternal life.
For the more full explanation of which distinction, I liken the prince to the will of man; the ministers of the church to man’s particular senses; a synod of the church to that internal sense which is called sensus communis; the fountain and original of all the external things and actions ecclesiastical, or such as concern the worship of God, to the objects and actions of the particular senses; and the power of making ecclesiastical laws to that power and virtue of the common sense, whereby it perceiveth, discerneth, and judgeth of the objects and actions of all the particular senses.
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