37$ Nr. Lye's summary Reburial Mr. Lye: SE1040,k, Preached it the conclufionof the Moraing.Exercife . in Lowbard-fireet. Jahn 13. 17. Ifye know theft things, happy areye ifye do them. 1 \I thefe words two things obfervable,firil, A Suppofition,which is double. 1. If you know thole things. 2, If you do theft things, rhere .e many that do, but do nor knew, do not under land; there bemany that know, but do not do, do not praEice. But our Saviour to his DiCciples is, Ifyou know firit, and then, Ifyou do. Knowing without Aping is unprofitaPc ; doing without ki:oroing is 41- pofiibie. 2. A Pofition, If you fo know as to do, then ittaitdeitoi blef- fed, happy are ye. Fitt}, fo - the Suppofition , which is double. 'Firth Ifyou know : this word Knowledge in Scripture contains two things. /. It intimates an as of the mind or sonderflanding, If you know. 2. It imports an a&of the memory, or retentive faculty of the foul, if you fo know as to remember. From both thefe fignifications, yon have thefe two aafervattons. I Our firll great care fhould be this, with AR ferioufneffe to apply our (eke, to the k ovoledge of the things of the Gofpel ; 7rapeofiu4octi, poop down to lockinto, to have a dear-, ihydrow ' perfea fight of thole things that are difcovered in the ehtpr-11-glafs of the Gofpel. VOre mutt look into the perfea Law of liberty, Yams 2. 25. 2. M the word imports an aa of memory, or remembrance, it affords us this t),fe,vation,. viz. Next to our knovoincr of it, fhould be our care to retain and -ernember theglorious Truths ofthe Gofpel. 'Tas all one, not to remember, as nor toknow ; we mut+ not only at. tend to Wifdomes words, but muft keep them in the centerof out hearts, P _ rOV. 4.21 2. Ifyou do, hence °Verve, 'Tis not enough to know and rememkr, butane ought to doAccording to what we know, and pragice according to what we remember. 'Tis tome flight kind of happineffe to know, but io to know, as to do, this is the happineife i Ifyou know, if you do. We
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