'<-– ,. -· .nings, all that wifedome of Gad revealed in · the Boo'ke of God) in the holy Scriptures, he never knew it as he ought, thereforeit is not profitable to him, to bring him home, -and · worke a change. This is ·the fecond difference. ; Hedircems Thirdly; Wifedome to the perfect, is fuch· . things- that wifedome,as enables him to diftinguifh ofthings differ. that differ, heisable to difcerne between good and evill, as you il1all fee an expreffion of it, He!J. 5.fJHt flrong meAtehelongs to thoftthat ttre per– felt: (for fo it ought to be tranflated, and fo it is in theOriginall) the old Tranilation, /Jy rettfon ofcuftome;and the new) hy reafon ofufe: but nei– ther is [o full as the originall, by rea[on ofhabit, in refpedthat theyhave t~~irfenfes exercifod to ·. difcerpe /JothgoPd& evill:thatis,hethat haththis . true wifedome, heh~th fuch a difi:inguilhing fa– cultie, that as the tafte difcerncs ofmeate, or, · Simile. as a man that, isaccuftomed to tall:e \Vine, ·can . eaiily difcerne betw~e!_le good and bad, fo,( not · by meere en(tome, as ·od1cr men haue it,but) · by a certaine \vifedomethatis.infufed into you, · you arc able to difcerne.betweene good and e– vill, even aHbe fenfes do: (forthatis the fcope ~~~T~f£cL , ofthe place.) As the rc~nfes aifccrne betweene colourand colour, betweene tall:e and tafte, fo there is an abilitie in thofe that'areperfed,to dif– ccrne betweene goodandevilJ: fo that, take fi1ch aman to whom this wi fedome is revealed, you - {hall find fuch an aptnelfe in him to difcerne., {>etweene good and evill; that is, he knowes the •
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