WhywiCiomc is fo magni6 . e4byS.Uo. 111011, 1 Iohn -4· Iohn8, Epher.s.x 4• Note. hence it isthat Salomon fo exceedingly triagni• · fies wifedome and knowledgeAhoveaUgetting, faith he,gL"t that. There are many things tbat are Preciousin the World, Pearle, Gold, and Silver, butthis i~ beyond rhem1ll. Why doe you thinke the wifeman would magnific wife– dome fo much? Becaufe tbis wifedome brings gracewith it, and therefore whenC.brift is faid to be rhe light oftheworld, he is Gtid likewife to be the lift': the light he _was, r John4· and !oh•. 8. Hee u the true light, that lightens every mttn. Andwhat is that light? Why, it is thar-light that brings life together with it. Therefore 3 Ephef 5. 14.1..Ari[e tho~ that jleepeft, &c. and Chrijfjhallgive thee light. Now,you know, life is .contrary to death, bur the Apo!l:le expreifeth it tl;lus ·: chrifl ihall give· the 1igflt, becaufe when a man h:ath much light, he fhall withair have much life and grace :and therefore this I will commend toyou, as oneof the principaR meanes of all other to grow {l:rong in Grace, and in the inw1rd man, to grow much in kno.v. ledge. Beloved, itis another thing than we_are aware of-: ifwe were fully perfv;aded that it werea thing (o excellent, that it would bt}ng fo much grace with it, certainely we ..would fiudy it more thanwe do: 2 Peter 2.20. faich he, Touhaveefcapedtheftlthine(feofthe World, . throu~hthe knowledge {}f Chrift: That is .that, ! that deliversyou from the bondage of finne., r that ·whiChenables you to efcape theft!thinejfo 1 thatisin the W(Jr/d~ · when other men are yet i tangled ~~---:---------,---------....----..!~- .
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