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Oh Lord God; how am∣bitious, how covetous of knowledg is this soul of mine? as the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing; no more is the mind of man with understan∣ding; yea, so insatiable is my heart, that the more I know, the more I desire to know; and the less I think I know: Under heaven there can be no bounds set to this intellectuall appetite: O do thou stop the mouth of my soul with thy
self, who art infinite; Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee: Alas, Lord, if I could know all creatures, with all their forms, qualities, workings; if I could know as much as inno∣cent Adam, or wise Solomon; Yea more, if I could know all that is done in earth or hea∣ven, what were my soul the better, if it have not attained the knowledg of thee: Since, as the Preacher hath most wisely observed, In much wisdome is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledg, in∣creaseth sorrow; Oh then, set off my heart from affecting that knowledg whose end is sorrow; and fix it upon that knowledg, which brings e∣everlasting
Eccles. 1. 8.
Ps. 73. 25.
Eccles. 1. 18.
Joh. 17. 3.