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of them that do, how much fewer yet take forth 

 their lesson aright ? — Learn any thing else they 

 will, but not righteousness; and, if that, any thing, 

 but to do it ? But this is not 'Op9-o]o/y,£ri/, rightly to 

 divide ; this is to mangle the text, and to saw 

 Isaiah asunder again. Would learning, or talk- 

 ing, or pretending serve the turn, we might find 

 righteousness enough in the world : we can define 

 it, and distinguish it, criticise upon the word, and 

 dispute of the thing without end : we stuff our 

 heads with the notion, and tip our tongues with 

 the language, and fill the world with our pretences 

 to it : but * Little children, saith St. John, (O ye 

 world of learners) be not deceived, (let no man 

 seduce you "into this piece of gnosticism, as 

 if to learn, or to know, were sufficient; no,) 

 'O uTotwv, he that doth righteousness, he is righte- 

 ous. Non fortia loquimur, sed vivimus, saith St. 

 Cyprian : the life of religion is doing. What 

 we know, we must practise too: t Whereto 

 we have already attained, we must walk in it, 

 saith the Apostle. They that followed Christ, 

 were first indeed called JDisciples, that is learners, 

 (for there we must begin ;) but they soon after 

 commenced Christians at Antioch, anointed to 

 action, as the word implies ; and this name sticks 

 bv them still, as the more essential. Their oil 

 must not be spent all in the lamp, in schold sa- 

 pienticB, that they may shine by knowledge ; they 



* 1 John, iii. 7. t Phil. iii. 16. X Acts, xi. 26. 



