The Fountain of Life Opened

For such is the excellency thereof even above all other knowledge of Christ that it renders the Understanding judicious, the Memory tenacious, and the Heart highly and fixedly joyous. How it serves to confirm and perfect the ⟨image 6⟩understanding, is excellently discovered by a worthy Divine of our own, in these words.

For such is the excellency thereof even above all other knowledge of Christ that it renders the Vnderstanding judicious, the Memory tenacious, and the Heart highly and fixedly joyous. How it serves to confirm and perfect the ⟨image 6⟩understanding, is excellently discovered by a worthy Divine of our own, in these words.

¹A young ungrounded Christian when he seeth all the fundamental truths, and seeth good evidence and reasons of them, perhaps may be yet ignorant of the right order and place of every truth: It's a rare thing to have young Professors to understand the necessary truths methodically: and this is a very great defect. For a great part of the usefulness and excellency of particular truths, consisteth in the respect they have to one another. This therefore will be a considerable part of your confirmation and growth in your understandings, to see the body of the Christian doctrine, as it were at one view, as the several parts of it are united in one perfect frame; and to know what aspect one point hath upon another; and which is their due places. There is a great difference betwixt the sight of the several parts of a Clock or Watch, as they are disjointed, and scattered abroad; and the seeing of them conjoined, and in use and motion. To see here a pin, and there a wheel, and not know how to set them all together, nor ever see them in their due places; will give but little satisfaction: it is the frame and design of holy doctrine that must be known, and every part should be discerned as it hath its particular use to that design, and as it is connected with the other parts.