If Ever you Would Keep Humble...

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JOwen

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Thomas Brooks, Select Works, vol.1:

Direct. 8. Get more internal and experimental knowledge and acquaintance with God.

If ever you would keep humble, no knowledge humbles and abases like that which is inward and experimental. It is a sad thing to be often eating of the tree of knowledge, but never to taste of the tree of life. We live in days wherein there is abundance of notional light. Many professors know much of God notionally, but know nothing of God experimentally. They know God in the history, but know nothing of God in the mystery. They know much of God in the letter, but little or nothing of God in the spirit; and therefore it is, that they are so proud and high in their own conceits; whereas he that experimentally knows the Lord, is a worm and no man in his own eyes. As the sun is necessary to the world, the eye to the body, the pilot to the ship, the general to the army; so is experimental knowledge to the humbling of a soul. Who more experimental in their knowledge, than David, Job, Isaiah, and Paul? And who are more humble than these worthies?

Seneca observed of the philosophers, that when they grew more learned, they were less moral: so a growth in notions will bring a great decay in humility and zeal, as is too evident in these days. Remember this, a drop of experimental knowledge will more humble a man, than a sea of notional knowledge.
 
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