6. Now this is the measure of wisdom, which if it be above measure is hurtful, as it is written, _Make not thyself over-wise_. And Paul has taught that the division of grace is according to measure, saying, _The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal, to one is given the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge_, [to another the faith of wisdom by the spirit of knowledge][13] _by the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit_, and that this grace is given according to the will of the Spirit. In that He divides, He shews His equity, in that He divides as He will, His power. Or He may will to bestow that upon each which He knows will be profitable. Sidenote: Ps. civ. 15. Sidenote: Prov. ix. 2. 7. An omer then is a measure, and a measure of wine, _which maketh glad the heart of man_. For what is the joy of the heart but the draughts of wisdom? This is that _wine_ which _Wisdom_ hath _mingled_ in a cup, and given us to drink, that we may receive to ourselves temperance and prudence, that wine which should be so equally transfused through all the senses and thoughts and all the emotions which are within this our house, that we may know how to abound to all and to be wanting to none. 8. More fully also it may be understood of the Blood of Christ, to Whose grace nothing can be added nor taken away. Whether you take little or drink much, to all the measure of Redemption is perfect. Sidenote: Exod. xii. 4. Sidenote: S. Matt. x. 30. 9. The Passover too of the Lord, that is, the lamb, the fathers are ordered so to eat, that it might be according to the number of their souls, neither more nor less; that more should not be given to some, and less to others, but that it should be according to the number of their souls, lest the stronger should take more and the weaker less. For the grace, the gift, the redemption is distributed equally to all. And there ought not to be too many, lest any go away defrauded of his hope and redemption. Now there are too many, when any are beyond the number, for the saints are all _numbered, and the hairs of their heads_; for _the Lord knoweth them that are His_. Neither can there be too few, lest any be too weak to receive the greatness of the grace. Sidenote: 2 Cor. vi. 16. 10. Wherefore He hath commanded all to bring an equal faith and devotion to the Pasch of the Lord, that is, to the Passover. For it is the Pasch, when the mind lays down its senseless passion, and puts on good compassion, that it may suffer together with Christ, and take His Passover into itself, so as that He may _dwell in_ it, _and walk in_ it, _and may_ become _its God_. Thus grace is equal in all, but virtue is diverse in each. Let each then take that portion which fits his strength, that neither the stronger may lack nor the weaker be burthened. Sidenote: S. Matt. xx. 10. Sidenote: 2 Tim. iv. 8.