A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Use 3. For Exhortation. Let every one that desires to be saved labour after such knowledge in Spiritual things, as is most conducing to so high an end. Labour for the knowledge of the best things, and for as much of it as you can get. Do not be afraid of too much wisdom, of being overcharged with Spiritual ⟨p. 127⟩knowledge. There is no danger that this learning should make you mad. To enforce force the duty, Consider,

Use 3. For Exhortation. Let every one that desires to be saved labour after such knowledge in Spiritual things, as is most conducing to so high an end. Labour for the knowledge of the best things, and for as much of it as you can get. Do not be afraid of too much wisdom, of being overcharged with Spiritual ⟨p. 127⟩knowledg. There is no danger that this learning should make you mad. To enforce force the duty, Consider,

1. How useful this knowledge is, Prov. 15.2. That the Soul be without knowledge is not good. Knowledge in the mind is as necessary and useful, as eyes in a guide. What a Leader is to his followers, ¹or a Driver to a Chariot, that the mind is to the Man. He had need of eyes that is to be an Inspector or leader of others. As the eye is the overseer of the body, so the understanding is of the whole, and therefore knowledge is as useful in the one, as light in the other. And as the knowledge of natural things is useful to a Man, as a Man, so is the knowledge of Spiritual things most useful to him as a Christian; and that,

1. How useful this knowledg is, Prov. 15.2. That the Soul be without knowledg is not good. Knowledge in the mind is as necessary and useful, as eyes in a guide. What a Leader is to his followers,