the SallJation of the Cl;urc!J from l;is Perjon. 97 be wife, wax foolijh in their Imaginations: How wofully did all their Enquiries after the Nature and Will of God, their own State, Dilty and Happinefs, iili1e in curiality, uncertain. ty, v'anity and falfhood? He who is infinitely good and compaffionate did ttom the beginni~g. give fome_ relief in this woful fiate by iuch parcels of D1vme Revelatwns as he thought meet to commuqicate unto them by the Prophets of Old, fuch as they were able to receive. By them he fet up a light _(hining in a dark place, as the light of Stars in the night. But it was the riiing of the Sun of Righteottfnefs alone that difpelled the Darknefs that was on the Earth, the thick Darkpeis that was on the people, bringing :tife and Immor– talityto light by the Gofpel. The Divme Perfon of the Son of God, in whom were all the T reafures of Wifdom and Knowledge,who is in the bofom of theFather hath now made known all things unto the Church, giving us the perfefr I dea and certainty of all facr~d Truth, and the full affurance of things invifible and eternal. Three things are nece!fary that we may have the benefit and comfort ofDivine Light or Truth. Firfl, the Fulnefs of its Revelation; Second!J, the Infallibility of it, and rhird!J, the Authority from whence ~t cloth proceed. If either of thefe be wanting, we cannot attain unto frability ~nd affu– rance in the Faith of it, or Obedience unto it. Full it muil: b.e,to free us from all attempts offear that any thing is detain– ed or hidden from us,that were needful for us toknow. With– out this the Mind of man can never' come to refr in the Knowledge of Truth. All -that he·krtows may ·be ufe– lefs unto him, for the want ofthat which he neither cloth nor· can know, becaufe not revealed. And it muft be Infallible alfo. For this Divine Truth whereof we treat, being con • cerning thingsVnfeen, Heaven[y,EternalMyfteries tranfcend– ing the reach of Humane Reafor\, nothing but the abfo- ' () lute
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