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An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on…An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on…
An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reverend divine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his own hand ...An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reuerend diuine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his owne hand ...
London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for John Bartlett, 1630London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for Iohn Bartlett, 1630
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. That we use the means to understand, and come to knowledge of the Word. This was the fault of the first ground, the seed therein had no entrance at all.
1. That wee vse the meanes to vnderstand, and come to knowledge of the VVord. This was the fault of the first ground, the seed therein had no entrance at all.
2. That we love and delight in the Word, that we make it our joy, that we relish and affect it: for having knowledge, and feeling the sweetness of it, we shall be the more desirous of it, without wearisomeness, without loathing. From the want of this, it is, that many men of great learning are yet carried away, because their knowledge was only in the brain, and not rooted in the heart. Like the second ground.
2. That we loue and delight in the VVord, that we make it our ioy, that we relish and affect it: for hauing knowledge, and feeling the sweetnesse of it, we shall be the more desirous of it, without wearisomnesse, without loathing. From the want of this, it is, that many men of great learning are yet carried away, because their knowledge was onely in the braine, and not rooted in the heart. Like the second ground.