PART III. of gracious Ajè5lions. 2I7 knows more than molt other Chriaians, have nothing of the Nature of true fpiritual Light in them. All true fpiritual Know- ledge is of that Nature, that the more a Perfon has of it, the more is he fenfible of his own Ignorance ; as is evident by i Cor. 8. 2. He that thinketh he knoweth any Thing, he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know. Agur when he had 'a great Difcovery of God, and Senfe of the wonderful Height of his Glory, and of his marvellous Works, and cries out of his Greatnefs and Incomprehenfiblenefs ; at the fame Time, had the deepeft Senfe of his bruitifh Ignorance, and look'd upon himfelf the muff ignorant of all the Saints ; Prov. 3o. 2, 3, 4. Surely I am more brutifh than any avian, and have not the Underflanding of a Man: I neither learned Wifdom, nor have the Knowledge of the Holy. tr ho bath afcended up into Heaven, or defcended? Who loath gathered the Wind in his Fifls ? Who bath bound the Waters in a Garment ? TI/ho bath eflablifhed all the Ends of the Earth ? What is his Name ? And what is his Son's Name ? If thou canfl tell. For a Man to be highly conceited of his fpiritual and divine Know- ledge, is for him to be wife in his own Eyes, if any Thing ìs. And. therefore it comes under thofe Prohibitions, Prov. 3. y. Be not wife in thine own Eyes. Rom. 12. 16. Be not wife in your own Conceits. And brings Men under that Wo, Ifai. 5. 21. Wo unto them that are wife in their own Eyes, and prudent in their own Sight. Thofe that are thus wife in their ownEyes, are forne of the leaf' likely to getGood of any in the World. Experience (hews the Truth of that, Prov. 26.. 12. Seell thou a Man wife in his own Conceit ? There is more Hope of a Fool than of him. To this fome may objea, That the Pfalmift, when we mutt fup- pofe that he was in a holy Frame, fpeaks of his Knowledge as emi- nently great, and far greater than that of other Saints, Pfal. 119. 99, too. I have more Underflanding than all my Teachers : For thy Teflimonies are my Meditation. I underfland more than the "Indents : Becaufe I keep thy Precepts. To this I anfwer two Things : Firfi, There is no Reitraint to be laid upon the Spirit of God, (as to what he íhall reveal to a Prophet, for the Benefit of hisChurch) who is fpeaking or writing under immediate Infpiration. The Spirit of God may reveal to fuch an one, and diaate to him, to declare to others, fecret Things, that otherwife would be hard, yea impoffi- -ble for him to find out. As he may reveal to him Myfferies, that other-wife would be above the Reach of his Reafon; or Things in a diftant Place, that he can't fee ; or future Events, that it would be impoffrble for him to know and declare, if they were not extraordi- narily revealed to him. So the Spirit of God might reveal to David this dif'inguifning Benefit he had received, by converfing much with God's Teftirnontes ; and ufe him as his Inftrument to record it f1r
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