A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

He knoweth that God that he must Please, and how to Please him, and how to be saved, and to live with God for ever. This is the honourable Knowledge of the Sanctified; which no men have but they alone. The cunning Politicians of the world have none of it, (as such). The Speculators of nature, the great Mathematicians, the Learned Doctors, famous for their skill in Languages, Philosophy, and the Theory of Divinity, are o•t without it. They have more of the words, and notions, and forms, and methods, then unlearned Saints have: but they want the Thing that these are made for. They have the signs, and the Godly have the thing signified. They have the Body of Theology, and the Godly Christian hath the Soul. The ungodly Doctors have better skill to break the shell, but the Godly Christian only knows how to eat the kernel. The Learned may be better at the office of a Cook, to dress the meat; but only the Godly do feed on it, and digest it. Knowledge is to be valued, (as all creatures are) according to its usefulness. As it is more Honourable to know how to Govern a Kingdom, Command an Army or Navy, or save mens lives, then to make a fiddle or an hobby horse; so is it ten thousand-fold more Honourable, to know how to Order our hearts and lives, and to walk with God, and obtain the everlasting Glory, then to know how to get the riches, and pleasures, and vain-glory of the present world.

He knoweth that God that he must Please, and how to Please him, and how to be saved, and to live with God for ever. This is the honourable Knowledge of the Sanctified; which no men have but they alone. The cunning Polititians of the world have none of it, (as such). The Speculators of nature, the great Mathematicians, the Learned Doctors, famous for their skill in Languages, Philosophy, and the Theorie of Divinity, are o•t without it. They have more of the words, and notions, and forms, and methods, then unlearned Saints have: but they want the Thing that these are made for. They have the signs, and the Godly have the thing signified. They have the Body of Theologie, and the Godly Christian hath the Soul. The ungodly Doctors have better skill to break the shell, but the Godly Christian only knows how to eat the kernel. The Learned may be better at the office of a Cook, to dress the meat; but only the Godly do feed on it, and digest it. Knowledge is to be valued, (as all creatures are) according to its usefulness. As it is more Honourable to know how to Govern a Kingdom, Command an Army or Navy, or save mens lives, then to make a fiddle or an hobby horse; so is it ten thousand-fold more Honourable, to know how to Order our hearts and lives, and to walk with God, and obtain the everlasting Glory, then to know how to get the riches, and pleasures, and vain-glory of the present world.