But nQuiea quae sunt Domini nesciunt, a Domino nesciuntur: They that will not know the Lord, shall not be known of the Lord. It is objected, 1. Cor. 8, Knowledge puffeth up. Let Iraeneus expound it. Non quod veram scientiam de Deo culparet, alioquin seipsum primum accusaret, Not that he blamed the true knowledge of God, for then he should first have excused himself.
Beloved, oLet the word of God dwell in you plenteously. Do not give it a cold entertainment, as you would do to a stranger, and so take your leave of it; but esteem it as your best familiar, and domesticall friend: making it (as our Postil sweetly) your chamber fellow, study-fellow, bedfellow. Let it have the best room, and the best bed, the parlour of our conscience, the resting place in our heart. Neglected things are without the doer, less respected with in, but near the dore; Sed quae pretiosae sunt, non uno seruantur ostio: the more worthy things are not trusted to the safety of one door, but kept under many locks and keys. Give terrene things not only regard, preserve them with a more removed care.3 But this pearl of inestimable value, this Jewell purer then the gold of Ophir; ⟨p. 36⟩lay it not up in the Porters lodge, the outward ear, but in the Cabinet, and most inward closure of thy heart, Deut. 11. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart & in your soul Mary thought that place the fittest receptacle for such Oracles.4 This is that Physic, which can only cure the sickness of Ignorances pUbi ignorans in•: nit quod […], contum•x quid timeat, laborans quo praemiaetur, […] quo nutri•tur, famelicus conuivium, vulneraetus remidium: where the ignorant may find what to learn the refractary what to fear, the labourer wherewith to be rewarded the weak nourishment, the guest a banker, the wounded a remedy to cure him. Be not ignorant be not sick: Search the Scriptures, read, observe. This is not all. Non prodest Cibus, qui statim sumptus emittitur, the meat nourisheth not, which tarrieth not in the stomach, It must be digested by meditation and prayer. qMeditatio docet quid desit, oratio obtinet ne desit. Meditation shows our want; prayer procureth supply. Let it not be said of our perfunctory reading, as it was of the Delphian Oracle, Quoties legitur, toties negligitur, that we disregard what we read;
But nQuiea quae sunt Domini nesciunt, a Domino nesciuntur: They that will not know the Lord, shall not be knowne of the Lord. It is obiected, 1. Cor. 8, Knowledge puffeth vp. Let Iraeneus expound it. Non quod veram scientiam de Deo culparet, alioquin seipsum primum accusaret, Not that he blamed the true knowledge of God, for then he should first haue excused himselfe.
Beloued, oLet the word of God dwell in you plenteously. Do not giue it a colde intertainement, as you would doe to a stranger, and so take your leaue of it; but esteeme it as your best familiar, and domesticall friend: making it (as our Postill sweetly) your chamber fellow, study-fellow, bedfellow. Let it haue the best roome, and the best bed, the parlour of our conscience, the resting place in our heart. Neglected things are without the doer, lesse respected with in, but neere the dore; Sed quae pretiosae sunt, non vno seruantur ostio: the more worthy things are not trusted to the safety of one dore, but kept vnder many lockes and keyes. Giue terrene things not onely regard, preserue them with a more remoued care.3 But this pearle of inestimable value, this Iewell purer then the golde of Ophir; ⟨p. 36⟩lay it not vp in the Porters lodge, the outward eare, but in the Cabinet, and most inward closure of thy heart, Deut. 11. Therefore shall yee lay vp these my words in your heart & in your soule Mary thought that place the fittest receptacle for such Oracles.4 This is that Physicke, which can onely cure the sicknesse of Ignoranc•s pVbi ignorans in•: nit quod 〈…〉, contum•x quid timeat, laborans quo praemiaetur, 〈…〉 quo nutri•tur, famelicus conuiuium, vulneraetus remidium: where the ignorant may find what to learn the refractary what to feare, the labourer wherewith to bee rewarded the weake nourishment, the guest a banker, the wounded a remedy to cure him. Be not ignorant be not sicke: Search the Scriptures, reade, obserue. This is not all. Non prodest Cibus, qui statim sumptus emittitur, the meate nourisheth not, which tarrieth not in the stomack, It must bee digested by meditation and prayer.
- nGreg. 1 Cor. 8.1.
- oColoss. 3.16
- 3Math 13.40 Psal. 119.127.
- 4Deut. 11.28 Luk. 2.51.
- pChrys in Math. 22.Chry• in Math. 22.
- qBern.
