Let everyone who seeks to understand God s highest unfoldings, as given in this epistle, first of all pray for this spirit. But this is not enough. No one has ever discovered the secrets here revealed apart from the written Word. God s spirit inspired the Scriptures. His spirit is not imparted to the saints to enable them to perceive light apart from the Scriptures, but through the written record.
Wisdom demands that there be two witnesses to the truth.
The spirits that ignore the written revelation disagree among themselves. The spirit that cleaves close to the record alone will bring us into harmony with each other and with the spirit of God. Wisdom will seek to discern the spirits. There are so many divergent ones, each trumpeting itself, that no one can accept them all. The matter is much simplified if we have the overwhelming conviction that the Scriptures are inspired by God and were indicted by His holy spirit.