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A27051	A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts: I. of falsely pretended knowledge, II. of true saving knowledge and love ... / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1689 (1689)	Wing B1429; ESTC R19222	247,456	366

But let that holy knowledge and love be mine which God most loveth and the World most hateth and costeth us dearest upon Earth but hath the blessed end of a Heavenly Reward Chap. XII The eighth Inference What is the work of a faithful Preacher and how it is to be done IF that Knowledge which kindleth in us the Love of God be the only saving Knowledge then this is it that Ministers must principally preach up and promote Could we make all our hearers never so learned that will not save their Souls But if we could make them holy and kindle in them the love of God and goodness they should certainly be saved The holy practical Preacher therefore is the best Preacher because the holy practical Christian is the best and only true Christian We work under Christ and therefore must carry on the same work on Souls which Christ came into the World to carry on All our Sermons must be fitted to change mens Hearts from Carnal into Spiritual and to kindle in them the love of God. When this is well done they have learnt what we were sent to teach them and when this is perfect they are in Heaven Those Preachers that are Enemies to the godliest of the people and would make their Hearers take them all for Hypocrites that go any further than obedience to their Pastors in Church-forms and Orders Observances and Ceremonies and a civil Life are the great Enemies of Christ his Spirit his Gospel and the Peoples Souls and the Eminent Servants of the Devil in his malignant War against them all All that Knowledge and all those Formalities which are set up instead of divine Love and holy Living are but so many cheats to deceive poor Souls till time be past and their convictions come to late I confess that ignorance is the calamity of our times and people perish for lack of Knowledge And that the Heart be without Knowledge it is not good And lamentable ignorance is too visible in a great degree among the religious sort themselves as their manifold differences and errours too openly proclaim And therefore to Build up men in Knowledge is much of the Ministerial work But what Knowledge must it be Not dead Opinions or uneffectual Notions or such Knowledge as tendeth but to teach men to talk and make them pass for men of parts But it is the Knowledge of God and our Redeemer the Knowledge of Christ Crucified by which we Crucifie the Flesh with all its Affections and Lusts And by which the World is Crucified to us and we to it If the Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this World hath blinded their Eyes when there is no truth and mercy and knowledge of God in the Land no wonder if such a Land be clad in mourning When men have not so much Knowledge of the evil of sin and their own sin and misery and of the need and worth of Christ of the truth of Gods Word of the vanity of the World of the greatness wisdom and goodness of God and of certain most desirable Glory of Heaven as shall humble their Souls and turn them from the World to God and absolutely deliver them up to Christ and mortifie fleshly Lusts and overcome temptations and renew them unto the Love of God and goodness and set their Hearts and Hopes on Heaven This is the ignorance that is mens damnation And the contrary effectual Knowledge is it which saveth Souls Chap. XIII The ninth Inference Those that Know God so far as to Love him above all may have comfort notwithstanding their remaining ignorance A Great number of upright hearted Christians who Love God sincerely and obey him faithfully are yet under so great want of further knowledge as is indeed a great dishonour to them and a hinderance of them in their duty and comfort and to many a great discouragement And O that we knew how to cure this imperfection that Ignorance might not feed so many Errours and cause so many fractions and disturbances in the Church and so many sinful miscarriages in its members But yet we must conclude that the person that hath knowledge enough to renew his Soul to the Love of God shall be loved by him and shall never perish and therefore may have just comfort under all the imperfections of his knowledge More wisdom might make him a better and more useful Christian But while he is a Christian indeed he may rejoyce in God. I blame not such for complaining of the dulness of their Understandings the badness of their Memories their little profiting by the means of Grace I should blame them if they did not complain of these And I think their case far more dangerous to the Church and to themselves who have as much ignorance and know it not but proudly glory in the wisdom which they have not But many a thousand Christians that have little of the Notional and Organical part of Knowledge have powerful apprehensions of the Power Wisdom and Love of God and of the great Mercy of Redemption and of the Evil of Sin the Worth of Holiness and the Certainty and Weight of the Heavenly Glory And by how much these men love God and Holiness more than the more Learned that have less Grace by so much they are more beloved of God and accounted wiser by the God of wisdom and therefore may rejoice in the greatness of their felicity I would have none so weak as to under-value any real useful Learning But if Pharisees will cry out against unlearned godly Christians These people know not the Law and are accursed Remember the Thanksgiving of your Lord I thank thee Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to Babes And as the reputed foolishness of God that is of Gods Evangelical Mysteries will shortly prove wiser than all the reputed wisdom of men so he that hath wisdom enough to love God and be saved shall quickly be in that World of light where he shall know more than all the Doctors and subtile disputers upon Earth and more in a moment than all the Books of men can teach him or all their Authors did ever here know Jer. 9.23 24. Thus saith the Lord Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness and righteousness in the Earth For in these things do I delight saith the Lord. Chap. XIV Questions and Objections answered Quest 1. IF so much knowledge will save a man as helpeth him to love God as God may not Heathens or Infidels at least be saved For they know that there is one God who is Infinitely Good and Perfect and more amiable than all the World and the

to use it Now the ungodly not knowing how any creature signifieth the Divine perfections nor how by it to ascend to the Knowledge and Love of God do indeed know nothing with a proper formal Knowledge 2. And what is it that such men know or seem to know which may be compared with their Ignorance To give them their due praise they know how to eat as well as a Dog though not so subtilly as an Ox or Sheep that can distinguish grass before he taste it He can tell how to drink tho' not by so constant a temperance as a Beast He can speak better than a Parrot He can build him a house as apt for his use as a Swallow or other Birds can do for theirs He can lay up for the time to come more subtilly than a Fox or Ant though nothing so orderly and by wonderful self-conficiency as the Bees He can look upwards and see the Birds that soar and fly in the Air though he cannot imitate them He can look into the surface of the Waters and Artificially pass over them in Ships though he cannot live in them or glide through them as the fish He can master those that are weaker than himself as the great Dogs do the little ones and carry away the bone from them all He can glory in his Strength though it be less than a Horse's an Oxe's an Elephant's or a Whale's He can kill and eat his fellow Animals as well as a Pike among the Fishes a Kite among the Birds or a Wolf or Dog among the Beasts He can more craftily than the Fox entrap and ensnare them the Fishes Birds and Beasts yea as artificially as a Spider doth the Flies to make up what he wants of the Hawk or Dog for swift pursuit or of the Lyon for rapacious Strength He can sing and so can the Linnet the Owsel the Lark and Nightingale He can make his Bed as soft as the Birds their Nests or as other creatures that love their ease He can generate and breed up his Off-spring though not with that constancy of affection and accurateness of Skill and Industry as a Hen her Chickens or most other animals do their young Yea he can live in Society Families Commonwealths though much more disorderly contentiously and to the disturbance if not destruction of each other than Pigeons in their Dove-house or the flight of Stares or Larks or Lapwings or the flocks of Sheep and less accurately than the Bees do in their Hive All this and more we can speak of the praises of the Knowledge or Wisdom of an ungodly man that never learnt to Know and Love his God nor any thing truly worthy of a man And is all this worthy the name of Knowledge Their Character could not be fitlier given than here it is by the Apostle They know nothing as they ought to know But of this more next Chap. IV. And therefore those are to be accounted the wisest and best knowing men that love God most and not those that are stored with unholy knowledge THis fourth Doctrine is also a discernable part of the meaning of the Apostle in the Text. His purpose is to humble those that judge themselves wise for that which is no wisdom but useless ludicrous notions and self-conceitedness And to shew men wherein true wisdom doth consist Many thousands there are that heartily love God and are devoted to him and live to his service in the World who never read Logick Physicks Metaphysicks or Mathematicks nor laid in that stock of artificial notions which are the Glory and Utensils of the Learned World. And yet that these are truly and happily wise and knowing the Apostle judgeth and I thus further prove 1. Because they know the things themselves and not only the names and definitions of them As he that knoweth food by eating it the Military Art or Navigation by Experience or a Countrey by travelling or dwelling in it Others lick the outside of the Glass but taste not the sweet that is within 2. Because they know the greatest and most excellent things God is infinitely greater and better than the Creatures And Heaven incomparably better than the riches and pleasures of this Earth To know how to Build a City or a Navy and how to Govern an Army or a Kingdom is more than to know how to pick Sticks or Straws or to dress and undress us Understanding is valuable by the dignity of its objects therefore how much doth the wisdom of a holy Soul excell all the Craft and Learning of the ungodly Let not the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this that he knoweth God if he so know him as to love him 3. Because they know the most Necessary things and the most Profitable They know how to be Good and how to do their duty and how to attain their End and how to please God and how to escape damnation and how to be happy in everlasting joy and glory And I think he is wise that is wise enough to be Happy and to attain all that the Soul of man can well desire But who will desire the Wisdom that maketh a man never the better and that will not save his Soul from Hell What Soul in Hell doth think that Wisdom brought him thither It were a thousand times better not to know how to speak or go to dress or undress us than not to know how to be holy and happy and to escape sin and everlasting misery 4. A holy Soul understandeth that which his understanding was made for and for which he hath his life and time and teaching which is but to be good and Love God and Goodness and to do good And Wisdom as is afore proved as as all other means is to be estimated by its end But an ungodly man knoweth not that which he was made for He is like a Knife that cannot cut a Ship that will not endure the Water a House that is not fit to dwell in What is a man's wit worth but for its proper end If man was made but to eat and drink and play and sleep and build and plant and stir a while about the Earth and have his will over others and his fleshly pleasure and then die then the ungodly may be called wise But if he be made to prepare for another world and to Know and Love and Live to God they are then worse than Bedlams and more dangerously beside themselves 5. A holy Soul knowing God the beginning and end knoweth all things Because he knoweth them 1. In the chiefest excellency of their natures as they bear the Impress of God 2. And in their Order as governed by him 3. And in their Usefulness as tending to him Though neither they nor any others be well acquainted with their material part which the Philosopher thinketh that he knoweth best Who think you best knoweth what Money is He that knoweth the King's Impress and the Value and