is. Nothing thatiswbolly alim to this : Nothi.ng but what doth keep irs due f Plboraination to this, and fo may be reduced to the knowledge of Chrif.t, I (or. 2.2 He would not own any other .knowJedg~as /c.!zowlcdge, but difdaimeth it as Ignor~tnce andFool– ijh!fJcjs, though it feemedwi(dom i.n theeyesof the world.. 1 Cor-~ 3. 19. Thisfnming k._nrn:Plulge and'wi[dom of the world' that is · wra!ly disjunct from Chrifi, is part of the [all] that ~e muil: fdl w buy the Peotrl , if we will obtain it. MAtt h. 13. 46. and part of the [ ~t!l thing;] which P~ul accounted dung 111Jd lofs, that he might 'Win Chrifl and befotmd in him. Phi/, 3. 7, 8, 9, 1 o. ' For they that know not thu On.e thing.,know.nothing, whacfoever they mly feem toknow: and they that would go beyond rhe :tnowledge of Chrifi, and think it too low for them, and trouble · . their brains and the Church with their fpeculations, ·they do not · ~ntJw in-deed, bnt dreAm. And if they would fee their faces in the · ~lafs of Scripture. l Tim. 6. 4· Thq'~tre prondk_nowing nothing, ilHt doating about ~eftions and ftrifes of words ; whence cometh envy, railing, evil J urmijings, perverfedijjmti»gs of men of corrupt minds, and de.ftitute of the Truth. - Moreover, if your fJrentth be fo fmall that it will nor fuffice for ever] ;hing , at leafi y_ou lhould lay it- out on this One- .thi»g. . \ . Yourtime,I know, is fmall, your /jvcJ are fhort, .and therefore~ yo1;1 may fay, We have not r;me for m:my thingJ·; tlut when you ' have but One thing given you to do , that muil be done, you . :may fure find time for thu.. for which you hdve yoar-– time. If you fer your fervant to w-ork, and bid him befme to do one -· thing, whatever elfe he do, youwitl not take it well ifth'llt one !hall · be negletl:ed. If you fend him on an errand, ami bid him be fure : to remember one thing, wl1atfoever he forger, you will not rake it well if heforget that one. If you trufi him but with one thit;g, and · bid himbe hue to keep that one, you will not take it welltf that he!ofi; efpecia·lly if hewilfully throw it away. 0 confider, Whether,this be not your cafe. . God bath fent~ you into this world but on one err~tnd, even to make fure of ever- · Ja!ting life, and will you neglecb that one ?He harh trufl:edyou with one thing\ and will you caH away that one? He bath ~tven you one ltffon tO learn, even to pleafe him and eo fave yourtouls ~ and will youn.otleam andrcroernb.er that.onc .llfyou had ford - - - ---· - ~ - ... ----- ----- -- - ------- -· --- _. - - -
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