William Burkitt Notes and Observations - 1 Peter 2:3 - 2:3

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William Burkitt Notes and Observations - 1 Peter 2:3 - 2:3


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In these words our apostle declares the condition whereon our profiting, growing, and thriving, by the word, doth depend, namely, upon our tasting and experiencing its power, as it is the great instrumental cause both of our spiritual birth and growth. This taste is a spiritual sense of the goodness, power, and efficacy, of the word, in conveying the grace of God unto our souls; in a taste there is sweetness and refreshment, but not fulness and satisfaction.

Learn hence, 1. That God doth graciously sweeten the word to such a soul as doth desire sincerely to taste the sweetness of it.

2. That it is but a taste of the sweetness of God and his word which a Christian partakes of in this life; satiety and satisfaction are reserved for another state.