l N EVV C 0 VE N A N To this Word, and fray upon it as the Bee cloth upon the Flower, and w.i.ll not off till you have . go~ fomewhat out ofit; if you be frill digging in thisMine, (here is enough, itisalarge, it is a deepe Mine) this would make you rich in tknowledge, and ifyou be rich in knowledge,it w·ill make you richJ"in grace likewife: it is the expreffionthat is ufed, I Cor.r. Therefore be affured ofthis, we have many bufindfes todo in this world,and every man bdlowes himfclfe on fome thing; hefpends his time, and placeth his intentions fome where-: now there is no– thing iq the world that you can befiow it fo profitably on, as to get new light daily ; get . new truths: ifamangather knowledge ofother things, they are-but trifles; and yet that. is a thoufand times>beyond the gatheringofwealth but yet that is nothing to the other knowledge, it is beggerly, and impotent, and poorc, as the Apofl:I_e faith: for the things themfelues are poore . Is there any thing in the world can helpcaman to Bappineifetoany purpofe 1 ifthe things cannot do it, the knowledge can– not: forthe knowledge cannot be better than the thing. I fay, the bell: naturail thing you can doe, is togather wifedome that will ferue but for this-prefent life, but to get that wifedome thatwillbuild you upingrace, that will make you flrong inchri{l, that is farre more to be chofen, remember that which Sa!omrm faith, that it is above Pearles, and that is not-enough toexprelfe it; but, ( faith he ) goe through' ·all , , Kk z the 45S Simile. 1 Cor.I.~. Moral! know. ledge better thanwealth.
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