A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…

2. How aptly this Perfection is included in such Knowledge will further appear, if you consider the manner of knowing, or the special nature and kind of this Vision or Knowledge, viz. that it is not that slight, ineffectual, merely notional, insipid Knowledge, which unregenerate Minds are now wont to have of the most evident Truths, viz. that, for instance, that God is the most excellent, the most perfect, the most desirable, as well as the most adorable Good; which Knowledge, because it answers not the true End of divine Knowledge, is called Ignorance: Whereupon they are said to be alienated from the Life of God, through the Ignorance that is in them, Eph. 4. 18. But that Ignorance is paraphrased by Blindness of Heart, i. e. a most perfectly voluntary and chosen Ignorance, founded in Aversion of Will. And elsewhere, Jer. 9. 3▪—6. by a refusing to know God, a saying to him, Depart from us, we desire not the Knowledge of thy Ways, Job 21. 14. Whereupon ⟨p. 23⟩the Light that is in such is said to be very Darkness, and then how great is that Darkness! Mat. 6. 23.

2. How aptly this Perfection is included in such Knowledg will further appear, if you consider the manner of knowing, or the special nature and kind of this Vision or Knowledg, viz. that it is not that slight, ineffectual, meerly notional, insipid Knowledg, which unregenerate Minds are now wont to have of the most evident Truths, viz. that, for instance, that God is the most excellent, the most perfect, the most desirable, as well as the most adorable Good; which Knowledg, because it answers not the true End of divine Knowledg, is called Ignorance: Whereupon they are said to be alienated from the Life of God, through the Ignorance that is in them, Eph. 4. 18. But that Ignorance is paraphras'd by Blindness of Heart, i. e. a most perfectly voluntary and chosen Ignorance, founded in Aversion of Will. And elsewhere,