An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Thirdly, Note; Knowledge is worth our longest travel, it will quit cost to go far for it.

We say, Some things are far fetched, and dear bought; true knowledge, especially the knowledge of Jesus Christ deserves to be far fetched, and it cannot be too dear bought; we must drive a strange kind of trade with the truths of God; we must be always buying, and never selling, yet that's a commodity will never lye upon our hands, never braid. If we were to fetch our knowledge from afar, as to the distance of place, we should not think much of it. The Queen of the South fetched her knowledge from afar, she came a very great way, undertook a long journey, to hear the wisdom of Solomon; in that sense we should be willing to fetch our knowledge from afar; yet some will scarce step over the threshold to fetch in knowledge. It is prophesied (Dan. 12.4.) Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Knowledge ought to be travelled for as much as any thing in the world. We fetch our gold and silver, and rich Commodities, afar off, we go to the ends of the Earth for them, through a thousand deaths and dangers; we sail within three inches of death for many months together, to fetch worldly riches f om afar off; and shall we not fetch knowledge afar off, how far soever it is ⟨p. 147⟩from us in distance of place, and what labour or cost soever we bestow to fetch it in? I will fetch my knowledge from afar, I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

We say, Some things are far fetcht, and dear bought; true knowledge, especially the knowledge of Jesus Christ deserves to be far fetcht, and it cannot be too dear bought; we must drive a strange kind of trade with the truths of God; we must be alwayes buying, and never selling, yet that's a commodity will never lye upon our hands, never brayde. If we were to fetch our knowledge from afar, as to the distance of place, we should not think much of it. The Queen of the South fetcht her knowledge from afar, she came a very great way, undertook a long jou•ney, to hear the wisdome of Solomon; in that sense we should be willing to fetch our knowledge from afar; yet some will scarce step over the threshold to fetch in knowledge. It is prophesied (