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the holy is understanding. Prov. ix. 10.

Wise men lay up knowledge. Prov. x. 14:

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way.-Prov. xiv. 8.

Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek the Lord, understand all things.-Prov. xxviii. 5.

Surely I am more brutish than any man; and have not the understanding of a man.-Prov. xxx. 2.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, &c. If thou know not, O thou fairest, &c. go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock. Cant. i. 7, 8.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider.-Isa. i. 3.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge. Isa. v. 13.

Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see, &c. and understand.-Isa. vi.9, 10. Matt. xiii. 13, 14.

The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.-Isa. xi. 9. Hab. ii. 14.

The Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice, &c. -Isa. xix. 21.

It is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them, will not have mercy on them.-Isa. xxvii. 11. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep; and hath closed your eyes, &c. and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, &c. therefore, &c. the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid, &c. In that day shall the eyes of the blind see out of obscurity, &c. They also that erred in spirit, shall come to understanding, &c.Isa. xxix. 10-14. 18. 24.

Save us from his hand; that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.-Isa. xxxvii. 20.

Have ye not known? &c. it is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.-Isa. xl. 21, 22.

That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this.-Isa, xli. 20.

I will bring the blind by a way they know not; I will lead them in paths they have not known.-Isa. xlii. 16.

They have not known, nor under stood; for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, and they cannot understand. And none considereth in his heart; neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burnt part of it, &c.-Isa. xliv. 18, 19,

Nations that knew not thee, shall run unto thee, because of the Lord thy God.-Isa, lv. 5.

They that handle the law, knew me not. Jer. ii. 8.

I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. -Jer. iii. 15.

My people are foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.—Jer. iv. 22. viii. 7. ix. 3. 6. v.21. Hosea v. 4.

Let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord; who exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.-Jer. ix. 24.

I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord.-Jer. xxiv. 7. Hosea ii. 20.

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them, unto the greatest of them.-Jer. xxxi. 34.

All the remnant, &c. shall know,

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whose words shall stand, mine or theirs.-Jer. xliv. 28. Ezek. vi. 10. I will set my glory among the heathen so the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day, and forward, &c. And when I have brought them again, &c. then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity.-Ezek. xxxix. 21,22.27, 28. xxxviii. 23. Jer. xvi. 21. To the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth, &c. they shall make thee eat grass as oxen, &c. till thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men.-Dan. iv. 17. 25. 32.

But the people that do know their God, shall be strong, and do exploits: and they that understand among the people, shall instruct many, &c. and some of them of understanding shall fall. Dan. xi. 32, 33. 35.

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased, &c. And none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. -Dan. xii. 4. 10.

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, &c.Hosea ii. 8.

The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land, &c. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest unto me.-) -Hosea iv. 1. 6.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord, &c. For I desire, &c. the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.-Hosea iv. 3. 6.

I taught Ephraim also to go, &c. but they knew not that I healed them. -Hosea xi. 3.

Who is wise? and he shall understand these things: prudent? and he shall know them.-Hosea xiv. 9.

The poor of the flock that waited on me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.-Zech. xi. 11.

The priest's lips should keep knowledge.-Mal. ii. 7.

The light of the body is the eye, &c. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!-Matt. vi. 22, 23.

No man knoweth the Father, save the Son; and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.-Matt. xi. 27.

If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice ; ye would not have condemned, &c.— Matt. xii. 7.

Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it is not given, &c. therefore speak I to them: in parables, &c. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not; then cometh the wicked one, &c.-Matt. xiii. 11. 13.16.19.35. Mark iv. 11, 12. 15.34.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch, &c. Are ye also yet without understanding?Matt. xv. 14. 16.

Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.-Matt. xxii. 29.

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The Gadarens (through ignorance of Christ) besought him to depart from them.-Luke'viii. 37.

Peter said, &c. Let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias; not knowing what he said.-Luke ix. 33. I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes; even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight, &c. No man knoweth who the Son is, &c. who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him, &c. Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.-Luke x. 21-23.

Woe unto you, lawyers; for ye have taken away the key of know ledge; ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in, ye hindered (or forbade).-Luke xi. 52.

That servant which knew his Lord's

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will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes: but he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.-Luke xii. 47, 48. Jesus took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, &c. And they understood none of these things, and this saying was hid from them; neither knew they, &c.--Luke xviii. 31. 34. John xii. 16. xiii. 7. xx. 9. He beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. -Luke xix. 41, 42.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.-Luke xxiv. 45.

He was in the world, and the and the world was made by him; world knew him not.-John i. 10. 26. Ye must be born again, &c. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said, Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things? If I have told you earthly believe not; how shall things, aud ye ye believe, if I tell you heavenly? John iii. 7. 9. 10. 12.

If thou knowest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water, &c. Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship. John iv. 10. 22.

The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?-John

vi. 52.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, &c.—John vii. 17.

I am the light of the world he that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life, &c. ye neither know me nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye

should have known my Father also,
&c. When ye have lift up the Son of
man, then shall ye know that I am
he, &c. If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed; and
shall know the truth, &c. Why
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do ye not understand my speech?
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John viii. 12. 19. 28. 32. 43. xiv.

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We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is, &c. Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not, ye were might see; and that they which see might be made blind, &c. If blind, ye should have no sin, &c.John ix. 29. 39. 41.

He that walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth.John xii. 35.

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.-John xiii. 17.

All these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.-John xv. 21, 22. xvi. 2, 3.

And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, &c. They have known surely that I came out from thee, &c. The world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.John xvii. 3. 7, 8. 25.

As yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. -John xx. 9. xii. 16.

It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.-Acts i. 7.

Ye denied the Holy One, &c. and killed the Prince of life; and now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it; as did also your rulers.-Acts iii. 14, 15. 17.

When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took

knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.-Acts iv. 13.

They that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets, which are read every sabbath day; they have fulfilled them in condemning him.-Acts xiii. 27.

I found an altar with this inscription, To THE UNKNOWN GOD: whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship, I declare unto you, &c. We ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, &c. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.-Acts xvii. 23. 29, 30.

I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.Acts xxvi. 9.

That which may be known of God, is manifest, &c. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, &c. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge; God gave them over to a reprobate mind.-Rom. i. 19-21. 28. Ps. xix. 1, &c.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? &c. Thou art called a Jew, &c. and knowest his will, &c.-Rom. ii. 4. 17, 18.

The way of peace have they not known, &c. By the law is the knowledge of sin. Rom. iii. 17. 20.

vii. 7.

We glory also in tribulations; knowing that tribulation worketh patience, &c.-Rom. v. 3, 4.

They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge'; for they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish

their own righteousness, have not submitted, &c.-Rom. x. 2, 3.

I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part is happened to Israel, &c. O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor?-Rom. xi. 25. 33, 34.

That ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.-Rom. xii. 2.

I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able to admonish one another.-Rom, xv. 14.

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The mystery which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandments of the everlasting God, made known to all nations.Rom. xvi. 25, 26.

In every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge, &c. The world by wisdom knew not God, &c.-1 Cor. i, 5. 21.

I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified, &c. We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, &c. which none of the princes of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, &c. God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit, &c. The things of God knoweth no man; but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, &c. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned, &c. Who hath

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DIVINE THINGS, &C.

known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.-1 Cor. ii. 2. 7, 9. 10-12. 14. 16. Ps. xcii. 5, 6.

If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.-1 Cor. iii. 18.

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? &c. Know ye not that your bodies? &c.-1 Cor. vi. 2, 3. 15.

We know that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth; and if any man think he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know, &c. We know that an idol is nothing, &c. Howbeit, there is not in every man that knowledge.-1 Cor. viii. 1, 2. 4. 7.

I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud.-1 Cor. x. 1, 2.

To another, the word of knowledge by the same spirit.-1 Cor. xii. 8.

Though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, &c. and have no charity, I am nothing, &c. Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away; for we know in part, &c. Now we see through a glass, darkly (or in a riddle), but then face to face now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known.-1 Cor. xiii. 2. 8-10. 12. Job viii. 9.

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If any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.-1 Cor. xiv. 38.

Some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.1 Cor. xv. 34.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.-2 Cor. ii. 11.

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil, untaken away, in the reading of the Old Testament, &c. When Moses is

of this world hath blinded the minds
of them which believe not; lest the
light of the glorious gospel,&c. should
shine in them, &c. God, who com→
manded the light to shine out of dark-
ness, hath shined in our hearts, to
give the light of the knowledge of the
glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ.-2 Cor. iv. 3, 4. 6.

We know that if our earthly house, &c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men, &c. Henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.-2 Cor. v. 1. 11. 16.

Therefore as ye abound in every thing, in faith, in utterance, and knowledge.-2 Cor. viii. 7.

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature are no gods: but now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you? &c.-Gal. iv. 8, 9.

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, &c. That God, &c. may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope, &c.Eph. i. 9. 17-19.

The mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as, &c. that ye may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, &c. and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.-Eph. iii. 4, 5. 18, 19.

He gave some apostles, &c. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, &c. Walk not as other Gentiles, &c. having the understanding darkened; being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them; because of the blind

1 Thess. iv. read, the veil is upon their heart.-ness or hardness of their heart.-Eph. iv. 11-13. 17, 18. 2 Cor. iii. 14, 15.

If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the god

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