confcienc~ to be ·E;camine_J_.~--33__;:x_ · · But Q.er~ is the differenf=e·Y9P thall .al w_3:Y Cap. ~4· £pdbetween theknowledg o(.an HypprJcrtt~, , ,.. '. ., and the rrue Chriflian. . Tlie Hypo~rites ~nowledge is like~he light oftheinc~eaflpg Moon, which ipcreafeth i~ Light.;arid.b,ig.., pelfe onely~ pot at all in Heat. l3ufthe light ofthe true Chriftian is like the rifing fun.in .~hemorping, _or the Vernal Sunne 1n the Spring, where light andheat are conjoyqed, the darkpeffe and coldneffe of thenig~t -~s lefiened, the heat ofthe day isi1;1creafe~.Th~ Moon grows lighter and lighter, andbigger ;tpd bigger:, but not hotter ~nd. ho!ter : Hep Plenilunium or full is ~s cold a~her Waue! ~ut the rifing Sun we all fee doth not onely , go higher and higher, but growes hotter and hotter. The Hypocrite h~thonely an increafo in k.!Jowledge in his Plenilunium and fuU, l1e bathno~heat in Co11fcience a9a ajfeflionJ to be difcerned, the true Chrifiian bath both light apqheat increafing alike/ogether. There is a four-fold ~Jivledge in the world, ;t· knowledge ofSpecul.ation, which is the by- .pocrites knowledge;a knowledge joined with aijli~ and difobedience which is theknow– ~edgeofthe Devi!J; a knowledg joyned with delellation and complacency , which is the An1.e1Jknowledge; And the knowledge joy-. ~ed with Con(cience . anq good affeCtions, ¥Thich is the Chrift~ans. The hypocrite with all his fwelling ~nowledge is like thofe children which have the Rickets, whofe headindeedgrowes big- ~~~ ~~~~ ~l,loth~~ fhilds, b~~t t~eir flre 1n~h . ;~.ut; /
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