The Christians Practise of this Command.
THE light of the righteous shines more* 1.1 and more vnto the perfect day, Pro. 4. 18. and hee goes from strength to strength, till hee appeare before God in Sion, Psal. 84. 7. When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vn∣derstood* 1.2 as a childe, and thought as a childe, 1. Cor. 13. 11. But as I grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus, 2. Pet. 3. 18. I put childish things from mee, 1. Cor. 13. And now I giue all diligence to ioyne ver∣tue with faith, and with vertue knowledge, and with knowledge temperance, and with tempe∣rance patience, and with patience godlinesse, and with godlinesse brotherly kindnesse, and with brotherly kindnesse, loue, 2. Pet. 1. 5. Thus being knit to the head by ioynts and bands, I encrease with the encreasings of God, Coloss. 2. 19. fruitfull in all good works, and encreasing in the knowledge of God, Coloss. 1. 10. till at