proverbs, ehap,9. ver.s. 2t ter Awife man fhall heare and increafe is learnîng. The bare hearing doth not necefrarily argue a wife man. F or fooles doe often bring their Bares to the word, but to heare, and learne, and to learne with increafe,that doth tellifie anholy wifdomc. Gods blefsing doth accompany fuch as haue finceritie in them to adde to their flocke : and from fuch as haue no more but a fhew,he taketh away that alfo,that they mayappeare to be diffemblers. Luk ,8. i 8. Secondly, found vnderflanding cloth difcouer the defeaof vnderlhnding : what great neede they haue, what little flore they haue, and the dore ofGods florehoufe and treafure ope- ned to them for their full fupplie. Thirdly, they know the wants of thefe heavenly Iuels, that 3 their price is ineíimable,and therefore they grow infatiable in their delires, and though they get much, yet Dill they labour for more, and bee as greedie and hauing, as though they had nothing at all. Fourthly,the former tatting & feedingon this coelefliall food 4 bath brought them to aperpetual longing afterit:themore they receiue, the more hungne theyare : the cxercife of eating hath fo fharpened their appetite, as they defire continually to cate. Iníruetion to approue our wifedome and righteoufnes in Vfe,r. proceeding to be more wife and righteous : and fo fhall wee beD pleafe God himfelfe. i.7hef4..i. So !hall we be inriched with more full holineffe. 2Cor.7.1. So fhall wee bee eflabli- fhed more firmely, and kept from all apof}acie and backe . Eliding. 2 `Pet,3.1 7.18 Reproofe of Non-proftcients,which are taught much and 2 learne little,and pra&ife nothing at a11. Secondly, offull per- fons which thinke they haue attained to a fuf-ficiencie : they haue plyed it hitherto, and now they may giue ouer their la- bours, they haue gotten though and now what neede they feeke any more ? But let them heare what the fpirit ofGod tefhfieth oftheir cafe to the conceited Laodicians,when they Apoc.3.3,, Paid they were rich and increafedwith goods, and wanted no- thing, then they were wretched, and miferable, and poore,and hadnothing. Hee that hall; as much grace as euer hec did de. fire, P.cafons, r.
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