The Preface. and capacity, being vainly puffed up in their B.efhly minds, they fell into endleis Divifions among them– felves,agreeing only in an oppofition unto the ,.fruth. But thofe who co'ntented themfelves to be \Vife unto fo– briety,repreifed' this impious boldnefs. rr 0 this purpofe fpeaks LaElantius, lib.4.de -vera Sapient. Qy_omotlo igitur procre:: a'lJit ~ Nee fciri a quoquampoffunt nee narrari opera Di11ina; fed tamenJaate litertt docent ilium 1)ei filium, 'Dei ejJeJermonem, How therefore did tbe Father beget the Son? TIJefe 'Divine Works can be known ofnone,. declaredby none. r:But the holy Writings . teach z.vherein it.is determined, that he is tbe Son ofGod, that he is theWord ofGod. And Ambrofe de fide ad Gratianum. Qt!_terrJ abs te,quando aut quomodo putes filium ejJe generaturum? mihi enim impofobile eft fcire generationisJecretum. Mens deficit, 1Jox filet;non mea tantumfed& Angelorum;fupra poteflatesfupraAn1: gelos,fupra Cherubims,jupra Jenfum,fupra omnem fenfum. ---Tu quoque manum ori admo11e; Jcrutari non .licet fuperna myfleria. Licetfcire quod natusfit, non licet dijcutere quomodo natusfit; illud negare mihi non licet, hoc qu.erere mttus eft. Nam Ji Paulus ea qu.e audi1Jit, raptiJA iu tertium ct£lum, inejfabilia dicit, quomodo ·nos exprimere pojJumus patern.e generationis arcanum, quod nee fcntire-potuimus nee audire? QEid te irta @;eflionum tormenta deleRant ? - · J enquire ofyou 1Vhen and how the Son w,1s begotten ? !m:: 7 poflble it is to me to kn~~v tl:e myfiery of this Generation. My mindfoiletl,, my rvoice isfilent, ,and not only mine, but of t!Je An::. gels; It is above Principalities, above Angels, abo-ve th{Cheru::. bims
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