Chap. 33. An Ealofrtion'tep.n the BoolZof J o B. Verf. 2. 497 caufed theApoftle to profefhe (x Pet: r. t a.) Iwill not be neg- ligent topro youalmayes to remembrance of thefe things, though ye know them, and be:eflaóltfeed in the prefent truth. As the ignorant ought to heare that they may know,fo theywho have knowledge, oughttoheare,that they may-be moreknowing ; as they that are fooles, ought toheare that they may be wile; fo they that are wife oughttoheare that they may beyet wiCer.(Pro:1.5.)A sì?ife mean will heare, and will encreafe learning. Salomonhaving fayd in the fanner verfe, that he fpake thefe Proverbs, Tu. -give fubtlety to thefimple, to the young men knowledge anddi fcretion ; left an íhould fay, if your Proverbs or wife tentences are fo plaine ayi eafie, that the fimple may found them, and young men -comp(e- hend theta, thenwhatpro,t {hail wife and learned men get by reading or hearing them ? fhà11 not they lode their labourand mif-pend their time in the iudy of them ? No, faith he , the greaten Clerkes and ripeft 'wits may gather initruáion from them, as well as the fimple vulgar, and greener heads. Their depth will not drown a lambe, and they are deep enough to fwim a Leviathan. And therefore as a wile man will heare, that is, is willing to heare, that hemay encreafe learning ; fo let not the wifeft thinke themfelves too wife to heare, for they may en- creafe their learning , how learned foever they are. And as the wifeft may learne everyday,; fo they that are ..truely wife, doe learn every hearing day, as the lame Solomon tells us ( Prot: y. 8. ) GiveinflruElren to a wrfeman, and hewill be yet wifer.. They- Sarenturn o are the moftf-oolifh of all men, who thinke themfelves fowife vie difcere. that they need no more inftruaion , and fo knowing that they need learn nomoreknowledge. Theword of God it is 'Bitted for all forts and finesof men, it is for the ignorant, and-forthe,know- ing ; it is for the foolifh, and for the wile ; it ismilke for babes, and 'ftrong meat for men ; it is for them that are out of the Church tobring themin;and for thofe that are within the Church tobuild-them up ('Eph: '4. i 3. )'Till we all come unto afierfeEl man, unto themeafure oftheiatureofthe feei ofs of ChrifJ ; till we are wife and knowingto perfedìion, and funnel's ,oflfature (which will not be on this fide glory) we have need togive ease, and heare, for the perfe&Being ofour knowledge, and the hightñinj ìßf our Stature. Agáine, Thee wife men were called to beate-andiveeare, S f f nor
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