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VE
a.9,
Eplsefiaus,Chap.
iç.
105
wifdome.
Commonly
the molt Chriftians
are counted
good men,god
wot,
butfimple
foules,
of
no
parts
:
the wifdome
ofGod
is
folly with
the world
;
it
islike
the
waters
of
Shiloh,
which becaufe
it
giveth not
the
loud report,
like
thefe humane wifdomes,
it
is
not
in
requeft with
men
of
carnal!
judgement.
Let
this weakneffebe farre from
us.
This
wifdome makeththe
face
to
Thine,
is able
to
farisfie
the foule,
i
care to
know
nothing,but
Chrift,and
him crucified;
yea,to
fave
the
foule
eternally,
bringing
it
toendleffe glory. Such who have thewifdome to get ho-
nours
and treafure here
on earth, they laugh at
all learning befides,
in
comparifon
of
this, counting that
skill
folly, which
a man
may have
and yet goe bare-foot
e.
But
how truely
may
we deeme al that wifdome
folly,which
a
man
may have,
and
yet
lofe
his
owne foule
Having difpatched the three
circumances,
which
were included
in
VERSO.
9;
the former
werfe,
we come
now
unto the fourth
in
this
Yerfe; namely,
the manner
of
working this
wifdomeidus,
in
thefe words
[Having
opened
unto
us
the myfieryof
his
will.]
Which
is
amplified:s.By the
caufe,
Godsgood
pleafure,the
freedome
whereof
is
argued in
the
words follow-
ing
;
which
he purpo
fedin
himfelfe;not
confidering any
thing
in
us
which
might move him
unto
it. Here
is
nothing needeth explication,
unlefïe
thofe words
; the
myffiery
of
his will.
Which
phrafe doth
note out the
hidden
wifdome, which the
pleafure
of
his
will ordained
to
our
glory,
and
is
for
matter
all
one with
the wordof
truth,
the
Gof
ell
of
falvation,
werfer3.
Thefummeis.
Which
fo
rich
benefits
of
wifdome
and
under
'landing
he
did
woke
in
us,
when
now
he
had
opened
onto
us
that
fecret
wifdome
which
his
will
bad ordained,to
our
glory
;that
Goffell
falvation,
whichhe
did
out
ofhis gracious pleafure, which
within
him
felfe,net
looking
at
any
thing in
us,he
purpled
toward us.
Obferve
fiat
;
God worketh
Paving
wifdome
in
none,
to whom
he
DO17.
openeth
not the
doctrine
of
wifdome,the Gofpell
of
falvation: As
God
did promife
that
the
hearts
of
the
foolifh fhould underftand
;
fo likewife
he
did
promife, that
all
of
us
fhouid be
taught of
him
:
And looke
as
the
precepts
of
Grammar, and doltrine
of
Logicke,
muff
be made
known
and
opened unto us,before we
can
getthe
Art or
wifdome
of
Grammar
and Logicke ;fo
it
is,we mutt have unfolded the
datrine of
Gods
Paving
wifdome, before we can have wrought
in us
the
divine
quality
of
this
wifdome, which
commeth
from above.
For further underftanding,
it
is
fit
to
confider
what
things this opening
of
the Gofpel comprehendeth
in
it,
or
how
God doth
open this
Paving
wifdometo
us.
r.0utwardly,
by
propounding the doétrine
of
it unto
our cares, which he doth by
his Minifters
:for
this
caufe Minifters are called fuch as
teach others
in
wifdome,Col.
a.the
end.Such
as feed
with
wifdome
and
under'landing, ler.
Such
as
make wife,as it
is,Dan.1x.3. For though
itbe read, wife,the
word
hath
an aelive
fignification,
andimportethto
make wife,
or bring to
wifdome,
as
thenext word doth not
fignifie juft men,
but
fuch
as
turne
others to righteoufneffe.
Even
as in
great Schooles, there
are inferiour
Vfliets,
as
well
as
the
principali Matter ;
fo
it
is
here
:
It
pleafeth
God
by