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Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…
Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ... To which may be added, a short scriptural catechism, accommodated unto their capacities. / By Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce for Nicholas Buttolph, 1690
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First, We have nothing so Noble to be acquainted withal, as the Lord Jesus Christ. It was once asked in Cant. •. 9. What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved? and the Answer was, O He is altogether Lovely. Thus if any demand, What is the Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, more than any other Knowledge! the Answer may be, 'Tis the Knowledge of him that is altogether Lovely. Gram••• and Rhetoric is the Knowledge of Speech; Lo•• is the Knowledge of Respect and Reason; Physics are the Knowledge of Qualities, and Mathematics are the Knowledge of Quantities. But sure, None of there Things are comparable to our dearest, glorious Lord Jesus Christ; of whom 'tis said, in Col. 1. 19. In him does all Fullness dwell. To be acquainted with Him, 'tis to know the brightest Thing in the Third Heaven it self; 'tis to Know those Mysteries, which the very Angels do bend themselves to pry into; 'tis to Know that, which with […] we should count our selves Losers by every thing that would obstruct us in the Excellent Knowledge of.
First, We have nothing so Noble to be acquainted withal, as the Lord Jesus Christ. It was once asked in Cant. •. 9. What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved? and the Answer was, O He is altogether Lovely. Thus if any demand, What is the Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, more than any other Knowledge! the Answer may be, 'Tis the Knowledge of him that is altogether Lovely. Gram••• and Rhet'rick is the Knowledge of Speech; Lo•• is the Knowledge of Respect and Reason; Physicks are the Knowledge of Qualities, and Mathematics are the Knowledge of Quantities. But sure, None of there Things are comparable to our dearest, glorious Lord Jesus Christ; of whom 'tis said, in Col. 1. 19. In him does all Fulness dwell. To be acquainted with Him, 'tis to know the brightest Thing in the Third Heaven it self; 'tis to Know those Mysteries, which the very Angels do bend themselves to pry into; 'tis to Know that, which with 〈…〉 we should count our selves Losers by every thing that would obstruct us in the Excellent Knowledge of.