to elrowfe SAINTS. 02,2S to know Chrid#ian religion, to approve it, to 'tidy it to determine aright upon things ; evill things to bee evill, good things to be good ; duties to be duties, fins to be fills.; now they fuppote their underflandings are alive. But the truth is none of all there are the life of your underflandinr. The underflandiug bath another life betides thefe. The under - ftanding may have 41 there, and be dead. Asfirfl, for Kiaoe ledge, J need not 'land to prove that; the dead Heathens, the Anollle laves they knew God ; when they knew God , theyglorified him net as God, Rom.t.ar. Knowledge is not enough ; as our Saviour Chrifl fpeakes ; ifyee know thefe thing. bleJf d areyes if yee doe them, Joh. i3.17. Nay, literal( knowledge does not fo much as give the undetflanding true light, much lefte life.; a beat lear- ned Divine that is wicked, his unde.flanding is flip in dark - nefle; say, it may leave him more dead, then tisofe that are grofiely Ignorant ; as the Prophet (ayes of them that had knowledge ; 3 will get me to the great men, for they have known the way of the Lord, hot theft have altogether broken the Tyke, Jer.5.5 They were more dead, their hearts were more avert& from all goodneffe. Bare knowledge is a poore thing. and yet people are apt to glory in it ; the ,tpofllc makes a ri(hat it ;. We know we have all knowiMdge, r Is that fuck a peece of matte. ? Never tell me of your know- ledge ; J know yee all have knowledge ; but that's a poore thing ; nay , tl+e greater is thy woe , if thou haft not a quickened) mind ; as Sol+mon layes, free that inereafeth knowledge, ìnereafeth ferrety , Ecclef.t. ¡8. Thou increa fell thine ovine feV'e condemning, the More thou haft; the greater knowledge in thy Bofòme , the more thou feefl to condernne thee; is like a fword in thÿ bowels, that dai- ly galls thee , and wounds thee ; and therefísre little reifen to thinke that knowledge is thelifeof the Mind, it is-not' lo much as the light of the mi tide ; take heed layes i nr Savi- our; That the light that ti in thee hie not darknefe Luk,i i 35 That is, thou mayft have a great deale of lulu. pl h 3 and 1 237
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