have been delivered unto Me of My Father.”4220 If thou desirest all things, thou shalt have
them with Me; if thou desirest the Father, by Me and in Me thou shalt have Him. “No man
knoweth the Father but the Son.” Do not despair; come to the Son. Hear what follows, “And
he to whom the Son will reveal Him.” Thou saidst, “I am not able. Thou callest me through
a strait way; I am not able to enter in by a strait way.” “Come,” saith He, “unto Me, all ye
that labour and are heavy laden.” Your burden is your swelling. “Come unto Me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of
Me.”4221
7. The Master of the Angels crieth out, the Word of God, by whom all reasonable souls
are without failing fed, the Food That refresheth, and abideth Entire, crieth out and saith,
“Learn of Me.” Let the people hear Him, saying, “Learn of Me.” Let them make answer,
“What do we learn of Thee?” For we must be going to hear I know not what from the Great
Artificer, when He saith, “Learn of Me.” Who is it that saith, “Learn of Me”? He who formed
the earth, who divided the sea and the dry land, who created the fowls, who created the an-
imals of the earth, who created all things that swim, who set the stars in the heaven, who
distinguished the day and the night, who established the firmament, who separated the light
from the darkness, He it is who saith, “Learn of Me.” Is He haply about to tell us this, that
we should do these things with Him? Who can do this? God Only doeth them. “Fear not,”
He saith, “I am not laying any burden on thee. ‘Learn of Me,’ this which for thy sake I was
made. ‘Learn of Me,’” saith He, “not to form the creature which by Me was made. Neither
do I tell you indeed, to learn those things which I have granted to some, to whom I would,
not to all, to raise the dead, to give sight to the blind, to open the ears of the deaf; nor to
wish as for some great thing to learn these things of Me.” The disciples returned with joy
and exultation, saying, “Lo, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy Name.”4222
And the Lord said to them, “In this rejoice not, that the devils are subject unto you; rejoice
rather, because your names are written in heaven.”4223 To whom He would, He gave the
power to cast out devils, to whom He would, He gave the power to raise the dead. Such
miracles were done even before the Incarnation of the Lord; the dead were raised, lepers
were cleansed;4224 we read of these things. And who did them then, but He who in after
4220 Matt. xi. 27.
4221 Matt. xi. 28, 29.
4222 Luke x. 17.
4223 Luke x. 20.
4224 2 Kings iv. and v.
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On the same words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, ‘I am the way,’ etc.