Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

All other knowledge may swell the head, sooner than better the heart or reform the life: A Man may go silently down to Hell by hypocrisy; he may go triumphantly thither by open profaneness, and he may go Learnedly down to Hell with great pomp and ostentation, what-ever he knows, if he knows not the Love of Christ, ruling in ⟨p. 206⟩him, and giving Laws to him, and conforming him both to the Death, and Resurrection of his Saviour.

All other knowledge may swell the head, sooner than better the heart or reform the life: A Man may go silently down to Hell by hypocrisie; he may go triumphantly thither by open prophaneness, and he may go Learnedly down to Hell with great pomp and ostentation, what-ever he knows, if he knows not the Love of Christ, ruling in ⟨p. 206⟩him, and giving Laws to him, and conforming him both to the Death, and Resurrection of his Saviour.

And let this suffice to have spoken of the second Proposition: That tho' the Love of Christ in its highest elevation passes all perfect knowledge, in our present dark imperfect state, yet there's enough of the Love of Christ that may be known, to engage our desires and endeavours to know more, to shame us that we know so little of what may be known; to engage our hearts to him, and make us confess that whatever else we know without this, is not worth the knowing.

Come we now to the second part of the Text, viz. the Apostles Prayer, for Grace the End: That ye might be filled with all the fullness of God, wherein we meet with a second [Greek or Hebrew], or something that implies a contradiction in appearance.