CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

2. Knowledge must have practise following, because doing is the end and accomplishment of knowing. It's not knowing the rules of Hippocrates will bring health, unless there be a practical use of them. Hence believing is called eating and ⟨p. 89⟩drinking of Christ, John 6. A man that is hungry, though he know never so much of excellent meats, yet that will not satisfy him, unless he eat. It's a rule Scire malum, non est malum, so God he knoweth evil, yet this knowledge is not evil; so Scire be••um, non est bonum: Philosophers make this distinction between the understanding and the will; the understanding draweth the object to it self, but the will is drawn by the object to it, so if I understand any thing, I am not in a moral sense that I understand, but if I will any thing, or love any thing, I am what I love, Anima ubi ama•, not ubi anima.

2. Knowledge must have practise following, because doing is the end and accomplishment of knowing. It's not knowing the rules of Hippocrates will bring health, unlesse there be a practicall use of them. Hence beleeving is called eating and ⟨p. 89⟩drinking of Christ, John 6. A man that is hungry, though he know never so much of excellent meats, yet that will not satisfie him, unlesse he eat. It's a rule Scire malum, non est malum, so God he knoweth evil, yet this knowledge is not evil; so Scire be••um, non est bonum: Philosophers make this distinction between the understanding and the will; the understanding draweth the object to it self, but the will is drawn by the object to it, so if I understand any thing, I am not in a morall sense that I understand, but if I will any thing, or love any thing, I am what I love, Anima ubi ama•, not ubi anima.