A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

But what doth Serious Godliness in this Case? These, though they have not any considerable Parts and Learning, yet they bewail their Ignorance, and are willing to learn: they get a savoury Knowledge of necessary practical Truths, and they increase the knowledge of them by practice; though they are Fools to the World, they are wise for their Souls, and wise for Eternity, and this is the best Wisdom: They have learned Christ, which is the best Learning. This you shall find, those great Doctrines of Christianity, which Learned men bandy to and fro in doubtful disputation, such as these, viz. The unaccountableness of Predetermination, the supra or infralapsarian aspect of Election, the controverted extent of Redemption; the manner of the concourse of the Divine and Humane ⟨p. 16⟩will in Vocation; the formality of Justification: In these and such like Doctrines, wherein the most eminently learned can neither give nor receive satisfaction, Serious Christians, of but ordinary Knowledge, are so far satisfied, as to admire the Grace of God in Christ, and press after such Holiness of Life, as adorns their Profession and muzzles Revilers. So that by what hath been said, you may plainly see, that both the excellency, and deficiency of intellectual endowments, are best managed by Serious Godliness; without which, whatever can be said for either, is not worth the mentioning.

But what doth Serious Godlinesse in this Case? These, thô they have not any considerable Parts and Learning, yet they bewail their Ignorance, and are willing to learn: they get a savoury Knowledge of necessary practical Truths, and they increase the knowledge of them by practice; thô they are Fools to the World, they are wise for their Souls, and wise for Eternity, and this is the best Wisdom: They have learned Christ, which is the best Learning. This you shall find, those great Doctrines of Christianity, which Learned men bandy to and fro in doubtful disputation, such as these, viz. The unaccountableness of Predetermination, the supra or infralapsarian aspect of Election, the controverted extent of Redemption; the manner of the concourse of the Divine and Humane ⟨p. 16⟩will in Vocation; the formality of Justification: In these and such like Doctrines, wherein the most eminently learned can neither give nor receive satisfaction, Serious Christians, of but ordinary Knowledge, are so far satisfied, as to admire the Grace of God in Christ, and press after such Holiness of Life, as adorns their Profession and muzzles Revilers. So that by what hath been said, you may plainly see, that both the excellency, and deficiency of intellectual endowments, are best managed by Serious Godliness; without which, whatever can be said for either, is not worth the mentioning.