VT s Epbe fians, Chap. 4. 525 tofore touching the things ofgrace and falvation ; thou feeft another beautyand excellency in Chrift and grace then heretofore, a vanity in all worldly delights which thou never faweft before. For triall; Hereby a man may fee whetherever he were converted; Yfe i Do you retaine your old opinion]till, an old m;nde, and an oldwea- ther beaten (inner fill? Thou haft not yet learned Chritt, there never came graceinto that heart. He that is in Ch rift is a new creature, he hathexperience of the venomeof fine, of the goodofgrace, and of the vanityof thefe things here below : The drunkard feeth the bitter- neffe offucha courfe, and he detefeth it; thecourfe he thought plea- fant , but now he bath learned better ; before bee defpifedChrift, flighted the word and meanes ofgrace ; now he feeth nothing but a Chrift can relieve him, not friends, not wealth, but onely Chrift is all in all with him; nowhe knowes what a priviledgeit is to be amember ofChrift. VERSE at. If fo beyehave heard him,and havebeen taught by him; Vsnsa 21. as the truth is in lefus. In that the Apofle thus excepteth, ifyehave heard him as the truth is in him; Hence we fee, That there is a double learning ofChrifi,and that Doc?. every kindeoflearning doth not exclude corruption. There is a know- ndowt6doe f ledgeofthe letter, another fpirituall, as the Scripture calleth them, a chdr;,terai:, knowledge fpeculativeandaffective : theone doth conceive and ap- prehend the things of Chrift, but maketh nochange : the other doth Ì eof lem. alter and difpofe the affecìions to Chrift and the wayes wherein Chriftbath walked, and this knowledge and learning of Chrift loth farreexcell the other , as much as the experimentall tailing ofany creature, doth the knowledge we haveof it by reading Authors : He that tafeth a cupofWine, knoweth it farre otherwife then he that readeth this or that of the tail of ir. The Scripture therefore fome- times diftindìly fpeaketh ofknowledge, The Gofpel bath beenefruit/id Cot 1.5,e, inyou, finceyou knew thegraceofGod in truth. It is not all hearing, no nor all knowing, but the true, inward, powerfull, affec4ionate know- ledge, which is frwtfull in us : Thegreateft Clerksare not alwayes of moil confcience, knowledge and confcience are often divorced: The Devitt knoweth more then all the learned Doltors in the world. Li- terall knowledgeonely conceivethof things , but hath no feelingof them in himfelfe,nor is affectedwith them ; now this knowledgedoth not alter nor change a man ; but the knowledge which is fpirituall, livelyaffecìing the foule, this transformeth a man into the image and pompe ofthat whichhe knoweth. Paul bleffeth God for thehelee- vingRomans, that they obeyedfrom the heart unto theforme of doilrine Rom.srt9: whereunto they were delivered; this is a faving knowledge which bree- deth the fruits of trueobedience, true delire of increafe. To reade of the natureofhoney, leadeth a man into fome conceitof it, but no- thing affecìethhim; but to tafle an honeycombe, this maketh him knowmore feelingly, and delire to raft further : So itis inknowledge, sapientia is pipidafeientia,true knowledge is favouryknowlcdge,which relifheth in the foule. Z z3 This
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