[ 409] National knowledge of God, no true knowledge.
LOok upon a common beggar, he knows the road-way from place to place, can tell you the distance from Town to Town; nay more, can inform you of such a Noble-mans,* 1.1 such a Knights, such a Gentlemans house, though it stand a great way off from the Road; of such a Farmers, and such a Yeomans house, though it be in never so obscure a Village, yet all this while hath no setled home, no abiding place of his own: Such is the knowledge of every Christian, except a true Christian, he can tell you of the pleasures that are at the right hand of God in the highest Heavens, can talk and prate of God, discourse of goodnesse, but all this while is not good him∣self, nor can make our unto himself any assurance of Interest in those heavenly things which he so much talketh of.