Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

1. These Practical Duties performed would give us light, He that doth the Truth cometh to the light, John 3.21. not only out of boldness but discovery of knowledge; Truth is nothing but goodness explained, and goodness is nothing but Truth consolidated. Rudiments of knowledge are prerequisite to practice, but examples clear all things to us. Demonstration by the Compasses maketh the Maxim evident. He that doth best, knoweth best, for he seeth the actions as they are in themselves and circumstances, he doth [Greek or Hebrew], he seeth the bottom by diving into them,¹ Psal. 119.130. (pethac pethaiim) the very entrance into the command giveth light, the Door is a Window to him that hath a weak sight; even those things Men have formerly ridiculed, practice hath reconciled them to be their Diana and great delight. As the Gnostic in Clem. Alex. who could not taste lewdness till he was in all evil, as tis Prov. 5.14. If wicked practices darken the mind (as all the works of darkness do) than holy actions illuminate the Soul.

1. These Practical Duties performed would give us light, He that doth the Truth cometh to the light, John 3.21. not only out of boldness but discovery of knowledge; Truth is nothing but goodness explained, and goodness is nothing but Truth consolidated. Rudiments of knowledge are prerequisite to practice, but examples clear all things to us. Demonstration by the Compasses maketh the Maxim evident. He that doth best, knoweth best, for he seeth the actions as they are in themselves and circumstances, he doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he seeth the bottom by diving into them,¹ Psal. 119.130. (pethac pethaiim) the very entrance into the command giveth light, the Door is a Window to him that hath a weak sight; even those things Men have formerly ridiculed, practice hath reconciled them to be their Diana and great delight. As the Gnostick in Clem. Alex. who could not taste lewdness till he was in all evil, as tis