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( 5 ) come in competition with, or ſtand in oppoſition to, the knowledge of Jeſus Chriſt. Neither was this a warm flight of devotion, or a thought that ſuddenly ſtruck the the effect of the moſt attentive conſideration,  the moſt deliberate and ſerious enquiry So rted in what is here rendered determined. he had ſaid, 'I have well weighed the caſe, I med it round, and balanced advantages and, gains and loſſes;——I have endeavoured to n every thing that merits conſideration here;——after the moſt ſerious, deliberate and impartial ſcrutiny, this is my ſettled opinion, my fixed ſentiment, That no knowledge whatſoever is worthy to be once named with the knowledge of "Jeſus Chriſt my Lord, for whom I have ſuffered the loſs of all things, and do count them but dung," (or dogs meat, as the Greek word imports) "that I may win Chriſt, and be found in him, not having mine own righteouſneſs, ec.' (a)

Now, this being the great Apoſtle's judgment, we need not wonder that he determined to know nothing,