John Trapp on Proverbs 4:5

Verſ. 5. Get wiſdome, get underſtanding] Compara ſapientiam, compa[illegible: 1 letter]a intelligentiam. So Chryſoſtome. Comparate ſaeculares, comparate vobis biblia, animae pharmaca. Get you Bibles by all means, whatever they coſt you: you may better want bread, light, &c. than the knowledge of the Scriptures. Auſtin makes mention of ſome that neglected the means of knowledge, becauſe knowledge puffeth up; and ſo would bee ignorant, that they might bee humble, and want knowledge, that they might want pride. This was to do as that fooliſh Philoſopher, that pluckt out his eyes to avoid the danger of uncleanneſs; or as the ſilly Frier, to whom Sir Thomas Moore wrote thus.

Tu benè caviſti ne te ulla occidere poſſit Litera: Nam nota eſt litera nulla tibi.

But men muſt get knowledge, and leſt it puff them up, ſwelling them beyond meaſure, they muſt get humility laid on as a weight to keep them down.

Forget it not] For ſo much a man learns as hee remembers. The promiſe alſo of ſalvation is limited to the condition of keeping in memory what wee have received, 1 Cor. 15.2.