The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on AdamThe paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam

2. It signifieth sense and experience. We use to say, I never knew what poverty meant. Such a man may talk of it, but never had experience of the pinching of it: so we say also, I now know what a prison means. Perhaps ⟨p. 251⟩he knew what it was before, but that was but a bare notion; now he hath tasted of it by experience, and can read the nature of it by proof. So, 2 Cor. 6. ult. it is said, Our Saviour knew no sin: he had knowledge humane, and spiritual, and therefore knew the loathsomeness of it: the meaning of it is, he knew not what it was by his own experience. Exod. 4.4. The Lord saith, Pharaoh shall know, that I am God; that is, he shall know by experience, that I am a just God, and feel it to his cost. So, Isa. 26.10. The wicked will not learn righteousness; and in this sense it is here taken, to wit, for experimental knowledge.

2. It signifieth sense and experience. We use to say, I never knew what poverty meant. Such a man may talk of it, but never had experience of the pinching of it: so wee say also, I now know what a prison meanes. Perhaps ⟨p. 251⟩hee knew what it was before, but that was but a bare notion; now he hath tasted of it by experience, and can read the nature of it by proofe. So, 2 Cor. 6. ult. it is said, Our Saviour knew no sinne: hee had knowledge humane, and spirituall, and therefore knew the loathsomnesse of it: the meaning of it is, he knew not what it was by his own experience. Exod. 4.4. The Lord saith, Pharaoh shall know, that I am God; that is, hee shall know by experience, that I am a just God, and feele it to his cost. So, Isa. 26.10. The wicked will not learne righteousnesse; and in this sense it is here taken, to wit, for experimentall knowledge.