Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

-~---·-:::::.v---=---P--R-I--G-H_T__.._..N_E=--S"'"'"".---..::..........____--....., 279 -------------------------------- the voyce ofthe .~hepheard, he knowes and difcernes betweene that which is good, and that which is counterfeit:, he knowes morall goods andevils,what is to be chofen, and what to be refufed; thishe knowes,fuchadiftinguiiliingEl- . .cuityhe hath,this is proper to thofe that are per~ 'feet;. the like you !hall haveexprefied, Ro1_n. 1i.6e Rom.u.~. ·renewedin the_(jirit of your minde, thatyou may difc&rne the good 1vill of God :that i•, that you may diil:inguifh betweene the good will that is d·uly perfed,& ~h~t which is not his ·will ; This propertie ~vill follow a minde that is_renewed, he wil1 be able tO difcerne What-an-other can~ not. . , Lall:ly, tbJt I may conclude; He to' whom this wifdome is revealed, hethatisper.fic1,there is a wondrous change in his judgement; that which before feemed foolifhnelie to him, now he reckons it to be true w.ifedome i and that which before wa~the greatell: wifedome, now it appearesto be foolifhnelfe; as aChild, when he is growne, to yeares, and is perfect:, the thil'1g_s_th~t before he magnified, now he difre– gard~ the-m; and the things that before he made no account' of, now they are prized and efl:ee– med ; fuch a diff renee there is, fuch a chan~e in the judgemet1r, when once this wifedo!lleis revealed. So it is in otherthings: takt> a yong , beginner in any thing, a young Scholler, he judgeth othcrwife of the exercife of what he learnes, than when he is growne ro mlturitie : • as. we fee, a m.m that is unacquainted with _ Y Mulickc, 4.His judges mene is cha'.t ged. " Simi!~.

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