LEIGHTON.

In conversation seek not so much either to vent thy knowledge, or to

increase it, as to know more spiritually and effectually what thou

dost know. And in this way those mean despised truths, that everyone

thinks he is sufficiently seen in, will have a new sweetness and use

in them, which thou didst not so well perceive before (for these

flowers cannot be sucked dry), and in this humble sincere way thou

shalt _grow in grace and in knowledge_ too.

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