Quote by Michael A.G. Haykin

“Fost.  He told me that I was the nearest the Papists of any, and that he would convince me of immediately. Bun.  I asked him, Wherein? Fost.  He said, In that we understood the Scriptures literally. Bun.  I told him that those that were to be understood literally, we understood them so; but for those that was to be understood otherwise, we endeavoured so to understand them. Fost.  He said, Which of the Scriptures do you understand literally? Bun.  I said this, He that believes shall be saved.  This was to be understood just as it is spoken; that whosoever believeth in Christ shall, according to the plain and simple words of the text, be saved. Fost.  He said that I was ignorant, and did not understand the Scriptures; for how, said he, can you understand them when you know not the original Greek? etc. Bun.  To whom I said, that if that was his opinion, that none could understand the Scriptures but those that had the original Greek, etc., then but a very few of the poorest sort should be saved (this is harsh); yet the Scripture saith, That God hides these things from the wise and prudent (that is, from the learned of the world), and reveals them to babes and sucklings.”