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taught me humility, in the sense of my o\rn igno- 

 rance, so it taught me the narrowness of my under- 

 standing which could take in things only by little and 

 little. It taught me, that thy wisdom was unsearch- 

 able, and past finding out : yea, and that thy works, 

 though they are but finite in themselves, and ne~ 

 cessarily short of the infinite Wisdom that contrived 

 them, are yet so wonderful, as fully to confirm the 

 observation of the wise man, No man can find out 

 the work, that thou makest, from the leglnrtirig / 

 the end. If a man were to spend his whole life, in 

 the study of a poor fly, he will still leave much more 

 undiscovered, than the most singular wit ever at- 

 tained. 



4. It taughi me also, with the wise man, (when I 

 looked back on what I had attained) to write vanity 

 and vexation, upon all my secular knowledge and 

 learning. That little I knew was not attained with- 

 out much labour, nor yet free from much uncer- 

 tainty. And the great remainder, which I knew not, 

 rendered that I knew, poor and inconsiderable. 



5. Hence I did most evidently conclude, that the 

 perfection of my understanding was not to be found ; 

 as neither my happiness, in this kind of knowledge ; 

 jn a knowledge thus sensibly mixed with ignorance, 

 in the things I seemed to know, mingled with pain 

 and dissatisfaction, in respect of the things I knew 

 not. And the more I knew, the mare impatient niy 



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