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covery of a work of grace in the heart?
Talk. Great knowledge of Goſpel Myſteries.
Great Knowledge no ſign od grace 1 Cor. 12Fait. This ſigne ſhould have been firſt, knowledge, but fiſt or laſt, it is alſo falſe; for, Knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the myſteries of the Goſpel, and yet no work of grace in the Soul. Yea, if a man have all knowledge, he may yet be nothing, and ſo confequently be no child of God. When Chriſt ſaid, Do you know all theſe things? And the Diſciples had anſwered, Yes: Headdeth,Bleſſed are ye if ye do them. He doth not lay the bleſſing in the knowing of them, but in the doing of them. For there is a knowledge that is not attained with doing. He that knoweth his Maſters will, and doth it not. A man may know like an Angel, and yet be no Chriſtian; therefore your ſign is not true. Indeed to know, is a thing that pleaſeth Talkers and Boaſters; but to do, is that which pleaſeth God. Not that the heart can be good without knowledge,for without that the heart is naught: There is therefore knowledge, and knowledge. Knowledge and knowledge. Knowledge that reſteth in the bare ſpeculation of things, and knowledge that is accompanied with the grace of faith and love, which puts a
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