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understandings ought not to search into mystcryes above theircapacitie and comprehension.

XCII.

We may read the writings of Poets and Philosophers, butyet wisely, to cull out of them , whatsoever is profitable , asalso with a discerning judgement to avoyde whatsoever ishurtful!; and so to imitate the wittieCees, who whatsoeverflower they gather of,following nature as their guide, with asingular wisdome suck out only that which is profitable.

XCIII.

The doctrine of wisdome by SoLmon is compared to honeyand the honey comb, because that as honey sweetens meates,so the word all other learning, but yet there is this differencein the signification ofboth, for honey because it is already pre-pared to eate, signifies the more superficies of the Letter, butthe honey-combe where the honey is not expressed from thewaxe, doth figuratively point forth the allegorical! significa-tion, that the Veile of the Letter being withdrawnc, the fweet-nesse of the spirituall sense,but with some delay and labour maybe perceived.

XCIV.

Honey too liberally eaten killes • so the searching after theknowledge of the Divinitie is sweet, but he which desires tosearch further then the nature of man is capable; his glory willoppresse and crush him; for as honey taken immoderatelybursts the eater, so this enquirie the understanding that cannotcomprehend it.

XCV.

Hast thou found honey?Eate so much as is sufficient for thee,least thou be filled therewith and vomit it ? hast thou found thesweetnesseof the ur derstant ing> of heavenly thing*, wHeh is

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