CHA Pl III. SEc:r •. I; of kn.Dwing :fefus At CArrying on the grea~ work ofoHr,. · falvation in his death. I . .• . Et us ~mw (efm, c_arryi~g on th~ great work ~f . · our falvat10n dunng h1s fuffenngs and death. ' This is the high poynt· which . Paul was ever , . - ·il:udying on, and preacqing on, and pondering 1 C:o;. :r.. 2. . ' · . - . • on ; for I determined mt to ktzow any thing a- · mongy;u,[ave Je/m Chrijl dn! him crucified. Chrifi crucified is the rareft piece ofknowledge In the world; the perfon of Chrifi , is a matter of high fpecularion, but Chrill: further confidered, as doarhed with his garments ofblood, is that knowledge which · efpecially P au/ purfues; he efteems not, reckons not, determin5 ., not to make any profeffion of any other fcience or dotl:rine than the moft necelfary, and only fa ving knowledge of ( hrifi crucifi- . ed. . 0 my foul how many dayes, and mon~ths, and years, haft .. thou fpent to attaine fom~ little meafure of knowledge in the · arc's, and tongues, and fciences ~ and yet what a poore skill haft . thou attained in refpetl: of the many thoufands of them that knew nothing at all of Jefus Chrift? and what ift.hou hadft . reached out to a greater proficiency? couldft thou have dived ' into the fecrets of nature, could!!: thou have excelled the wifdome Kf . ofall the children of the Ea-ft country, and a/1 t'he wifdome of 8 , ~~·HJ• Egypt, and the wifdome ofSolomon, who Jfak§ofbeaft,, offculn,of fifhu,' of all trus from th~ Cedar tree that u in Lebanon, even to th( hij[op thAt springeth out of the ~all, yet without the faving knowledge ofChrift crl:llcifiedEChrifi fuffering,bleeding,&dying) all i:his had J>een nothing:·fee ecclef. r. 1 8. _only that knowledge is wor~h _the having which refers .co Chrifi.; and above all that is the rauft pieceofChrifts humiliation, which holds him forth fuffering for us, and fo freeing us from hell fufferings. Come then, and fpend thy time for the future more fruitfully in read- ..i; ' • \ ... ' • . m~ -
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