"...the only way to study the Word of God is the way in which physical science is studied.

"...it [study of the Word] must be in the same way as natural knowledge is come at, by the continuance and progress of learning and liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, and which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world." [emphasis his]."

Consider carefully, by way of contrast, these verses:

"If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:" (Eph. 4:21) Notice that the truth is personally "taught by Him" and it is only to those who are "in Jesus".

"Let no one defraud you of the prize." "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." (Col. 2:8- 10)

"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." (2nd Cor. 4:6)

"We are being changed into the same image." Notice what produces this change - beholding intently the face of Christ.

"To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."

"Abide in Me and I in you ... Without Me you can do nothing." 4

"Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."

"You search the Scriptures, thinking that in them you have eternal life, but you will not come to Me..." 5

The very best way that we can tell the true from the false is this: " By their fruits you will know them." This is what tells me which sources are helpful and which are not. I have often been fascinated by the details of some author's work - only to have been left colder and less inclined to love Christ after putting that book down. But after reading the Bible in the proper spirit, and after reading certain other works, I find again that wonderful desire for God Himself - as opposed to mere enthusiasm for the -topic- of God (that dry husk!), or one of the many subtopics (just so much chaff!). 6

A final question: When is the last time you were sensible of "the love of God shed abroad in your heart"? This is supposed to be a reality in the lives of all believers. Those times that it has been a reality for me has left me desirous and thirsty for more and more of the blessed Living Water. It has also made me keener to make note of the means by which these "times of refreshing" return, as opposed to those things (books, websites, music, theologies, etc.) that seem to keep it (Him) away.

Notes
1. The Church came about after Acts 28:28, according to him.

2. This teaching is more dangerous than may be at first readily apparent. To argue for a second (and better) blessing of the Holy Spirit later in Acts adversely effects the nature of God (is God divided?), the veracity of Christ (He promised the Spirit at Pentecost, after all) and the nature of salvation as well. We cannot separate the presence from the benefits of the Holy Spirit. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to God at all (Romans). It is all or nothing. This is the whole reason we are not to grieve the Holy Spirit; because we are intimately connected with Him the moment we were regenerated. Bullinger's pneumatology (Doctrine of the Holy Spirit) is wrong on several counts and is serious error.

3. This belief in dual revelation (inevitably downgrading true revelation - the Word of God) is something that he shares with Hugh Ross of modern times. Both point to Genesis 1:14 and Psalm 19 as validation for their view. More on this heresy, as it relates to Ross, at least, can be found (here).

4. Abiding in Christ is being in constant communion with Him, the exact thing that Paul writes of in 2nd Cor (beholding His glory) as the very key to progress toward Christlikeness. Many today treat John's "abide" as merely a "don't apostasize", yet the spiritually intimacy implied is much greater than that. We must stay within range of God's best blessings, "walking in the light as he is in the light"

5. There is a kind of Bible study that is no more than a studious neglect of the Christ of the Bible. The heart and glory of our faith is exactly the thing that can't be contained in mere words. In the same way that one writer said "The whole life must pray", so, when it comes to Bible study, our whole (undivided) heart and spirit must "strive mightily according to His working" (Col).

6. By "fruit" we can also think of those spiritual leaders who drew inspiration or, in the case Victor Wierwille, actually plagiarized outright E.W. Bullinger's work. The latter's "The Giver and His Gifts (1905) found it's way, uncredited, in the founder of The Way International's own book, "Receiving the Holy Spirit Today" (3rd ed. 1957). Error begets error, of course: The Way takes some of the quirks of Bullinger's and gives them ever new, even more unorthodox garb.