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A67781	The tryall of true wisdom, with how to become wise indeed, or, A choice and cheap gift for a friend both to please and pleasure him, be he inferior or superior, sinful or faithful, ignorant or intelligent / By R. Younge ... ; add this as an appendix, or third part, to The hearts index, and, A short and sure way, to grace and salvation.	Younge, Richard.; Younge, Richard. Hearts-index, or, self-knowledg.; Younge, Richard. Short and sure way to grace and salvation.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y194; ESTC R39197	35,053	36

the Scriptures that coelestial glass though this also must be done by the spirits help Therefore Thirdly If thou wilt be Soul-wise and truly profit by studying the Scriptures be frequent and fervent in Prayer to God who is the only giver of it for the direction of his holy spirit For first humble and faithful Prayer ushered in by meditation is the cure of al obscurity Especially being accompanied with fervor and fervency as you may see Matth. 21. 22. If any lack wisdom saith St. James let him ask of God who giveth to al men liberally and reproacheth no man and it shal be given him Jam. 1. 5. Mark the words it is said if any wherefore let no man deny his soul this comfort Again ask and have It cannot come upon easier terms Yea God seems to like this sute so well in Solomon as if he were beholding to his Creature for wishing well to it self And in vain do we expect that alms of grace for which we do not so much as beg But in praying for Wisdom do not pray for it without putting difference desire not so much brain-knowledg as to be Soul-wise and then you will imploy your wisdom to the glory of the giver Let thine hearts desire be to know God in Christ Christ in Faith Faith in good works to know Gods vvill that thou mayest do it and before the knowledg of all other things desire to knovv thy self in thy self not so much thy strength as thy vveakness Pray that thine heart may serve thee insteed of a commentary to help thee understand such points of Religion as are most needful and necessary and that thy Life may be an ●●●●sition of thy invvard man that there may be a sweet harmony betwixt Gods VVord thy judgment and vvhole conversation that what the natural man knoweth by roat thou mayst double by feeling the same in thine heart and affections As indeed experimental and saving knovvledg is no less felt than knovvn and I cannot tell how comes rather out of the abundance of the heart than by extreme study or rather is sent by God unto good men like the Ram that was brought to Abraham when he would have Sacrificed his son Isaak When Christ taught in the Temple they asked Hovv knovveth this man the Scriptures seeing he never learned them So it is a wonder what learning some men have that have no learning Like Prisilla and Aquila poor Tent-makers who were able to school Apollos that great Clerk a man renovvned for his learning What can we say to it For no other reason can be given but as Christ said Father so it pleaseth thee For as Jacob said of his venison when his Father ask'd how he came by it so suddenly Because the Lord thy God brought it suddenly to my hands So holy and righteous men do more easily understand the words of God than do the wicked because God brings the meaning suddenly to their hearts as we read Luk. 24. That Christ standing in the midst of his Apostles after he vvas risen from the dead opened their understandings that they might understand clearly the Scriptures and vvhat vvas vvritten of him in the Lavv of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms vers. 44. 45. Lo how suddenly their knowledge came unto them But see what a general promise God in the Person of wisdom hatth made to all that serve him Prov. 1. Turn you at my reproof and behold I will pour out my spirit unto you and make known my words unto you vers. 23. And Psal. 25. The secrets of the Lord are revealed to them that fear him and his covenant is to give them understanding vers 14. These secrets are hid from the wicked neither hath he made any such covenant with them but the contrary As see Dan. 12. 10. Unto you it is given to knovv the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven but to others in Parrables that they seeing should not see and hearing they should not understand Luke 8. 10 Mark 3 11 Matth 13 13 Again It is not enough to pray except also it be in Christs name and accrding to his vvill believing to be heard for his sake and that it be the intercession of Gods ovvn spirit in you And being truly sensible of your sins and wants that you chiefly pray for the pardon of sinne the effusion of grace and for the assistance of Gods Spirit that you may more firmly believe more soundly repent more zealously doe more patiently suffer and more constantly persevere in the practice and profession of every duty But above all you must know that as Sampsons companions could never have found out his Riddle if they had not plowed with his heifer so no man can know the secrets of God but by the revelation of his Spirit 1 Cor. 12. 8. Mat. 16. 17. Yea suppose a man be not inferiour to Portius or Pythagoras who kept all things in memory that ever they had read heard or seen To Virgil of whom it is reported that if all Sciences were lost they might be found again in him To Aben Ezra of whom it was said that if Knowledge had put out her candle at his brain she might light it again and that his head was a throne of wisdome or Josephus Scaliger who was skilled in thirty Languages Yet if he want the Spirit of God to be his teacher he is a dunce to the meanest and most illiterate believer For one excellent and necessary prerogative of the spirituall man is this he hath God for his teacher he learns the Counsels of God of that spirit which onely knoweth Gods counsels Luk. 21. 15. which is no small priviledge for the scholar learns quickly when the Holy Ghost is his teacher the Eye sees distinctly when the Holy Ghost doth enlighten it With the Spirits helpe the meanes can never be too weake without never strong enough Luk. 24. 44 45. Pro. 1. 23. 51. Fourthly Thou must get an humble conceit of thine own wisdome The first step to knowledge is to know our own ignorance We must become fools in our own opinion before we can be truly wise as the Apostle sets it down 1 Cor. 3. 18. And indeed the opinion of our knowing enough is one of the greatest causes of our knowing so little For what we presume to have attained we seeke not after Yea the very first lesson of a Christian is humility He will teach the humble his way Psalm 25. 9. Jam. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 5. 5. And he that hath not learned the first lesson is not fit to take out a new Pride is a great let to true wisdome For God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble Jam. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 5. 5. Whence it comes to passe that few proud wits are reformed Iohn 9. 39. And for this cause also did our Saviour propound his woes to the Pharisees his doctrines to the People A heart full of pride is like a vessell full of aire This self opinion

sparing of their censures How-ever I could wish that our Reverend Divines would afford themselves more liberty in this case then they do There be some expressions that we borrow from our Predecessors that deserve to be mentioned or used by a Minister that remains perhaps twenty or thirty years in a Parish more then once though it be to the same Congregation for that which takes not or is not minded at one time may at another and how many have been converted by that onely argument that God seeth all things even in the darke when the doors are shut and the curtains drawn Nor do I think that a dull and flat tool or instrument would be used when a more quick and sharp one may be had at as easie a rate and perhaps neerer at hand But we are mostly even the best of us loth to deny our selves though it be for our Masters many of our Brethrens great gain and advantage But of this by the way onely a word or two more that may reach to all that are in their natural condition and I shall conclude 58. In the last place Are not all wilfull sinners arrant fools who Adam-like will receive what-ever comes or is offered them be it bribe or other sinful bait not once thinking this is forbidden fruit and thou shalt die the death That think the vowed enemy of their souls can offer them a bait without a hook you cannot but acknowledg them stark fools though thou thy self beest one of the number Again for men to dishonour God and blaspheme his Name while he does support and relieve them to runne from him while he does call them and forget him while he does feed them To imitate the Common Protestants in Queen Maries time who laughed the Martyrs to scorn and esteemed them superstitious fools to lose their lives and fortunes for matters of Religion accounting faith holinesse immortality of the soul c. meer fopperies and illusions To be quick-sighted in other mens failings and blinde to their own Are not these so many infallible properties of a fool and yet these are the lively characters of every sensuallist In so much that if I should give you a list or Catalogue of all the fools in one City or County You would blesse your selves that there are so few Bedlam houses and yet so many out of their wits that can not perceive or discern the same And yet no wonder for as I told you-ere-while Sensual men are so be-nighted and puzled with blindnesse that they know no other way then the flesh leads them Yea many by losse of conscience become Atheists and by losse of reason Beasts Yea to any thing that is spiritually good the natural man is blinde and deafe and dead as ye may see by these ensuing Scriptures 1 Tim. 5. 6. Rom. 1. 21 22 25. Ephes. 5. 14. Isa. 6. 9 10. John 12 40. Psal. 69. 23. Matth. 4. 16 15. 14. Ephes. 4. 18 19. 5. 8. 1 Pet. 2 9. Acts 28. 27. Rom. 11. 8. Matth. 23. 16 17. 19. 24. 26. 27. 3 4 5. 2 Pet. 2. 16. Revel. 3. 17. Rom. 6. 13. 8. 11. Micah 7. 16. Psal. 58. 4. Eph. 2. 1. If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. But it is otherwise with the godly as let Satan or the world offer a wise Christian the bait of pleasure or profit his answer shall be I will not buy repentance so dear I will not lose my soul to please my sense If affliction comes he will consider that Gods punishments for sinne calls for conversion from sin and in case God speaks to him by his Word to forsake his evill wayes and turn again to him he will amend his course lest if he heare not the word he should feel the sword Whereas nothing will confute a fool but fire and brimstone The Lord spake to Manasses and to his people but they would not regard Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the Captains of the Host of the King of Ashur that took Manasses and put him in fetters and brought him in chains and carried him to Babel 2 Chron. 33. 10 11. Fools saith holy David by reason of their transgression and because of their iniquity Psal. 107. 17. From which words Musculus infers that all wilfull transgressors are arrant fools And it is the saying of Cardan That dishonesty is nothing else but folly and madnesse Yea Solomon throughout all his Proverbs by a fool means the natural man and by a wise man a man sanctified O that it were rightly learned and laid to heart by all that are yet in the state of un-regeneracy for it is every one of their cases To conclude in a word Without knowledge the soul is not good Prov. 19. 2. The ignorant cannot be innocent I am the light of the world sayes our Saviour John 8. 12. 12. 46. Where light is not Christ is not for Christ is light 59. And so according to my skill I have performed what I at first promised It remains before we leave it that some use be made thereof that so both wise and weak may learn something from what hath been spoken of this subject Wherefore in the first place If it be so that both the sensual and rational even all that are yet in their natural estate are uncapable of divine and super-natural knowledge that they are blinde touching spiritual things Then let not any carnal wretch hereafter dare to speak evill of the things actions or persons that are out of the reach of his capacity but silently suspend his judgement untill he be better informed For as it pertaineth not to the Rustick to jugde of letters So it belongeth not to natural men to judg of spiritual things Yea let those ignorant ones that have used to speak evill of the way of truth learn to kick no more against the pricks lest they bring upon themselves the same curse that their fellows did who brought up an evill report of the Holy Land Num. 13. 32 33. 14. 23 24. Yea put case they shall think they do God good service in it as many do in persecuting and putting to death his children and Ambassadors John 16. 2. as a world of examples witnesse Yea the Jews thought they did marvellous well in crucifying the Lord of life But what says the holy Ghost Prov. 14. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death vers. 12. Even the Powder-traytors thought they merited when they intended to blow up the whole State Alass Natural men are no more fit to judge of spiritual matters then blinde men are fit to judge of colours And yet none more forward then they as you may see by those blinde Sodomites that dealt so roughly and coursely with Lot and his two Angel● Gen. 19. 1. to 12. That they are ignorant and so unfit is