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VA
Dotl.q.
Sphejans,Chap.l,
V
E
R,17,'
So
the
fpirit hash
both
love, which warmerh our
frozen
hearts
and afte.
Clions,and
alto
this light ofrevelation,
which delighteth the
eye
ofthe
underftanding,
and
manifefieth to the view
of
it,
things that
are
hea-
venly.
Wherefore
let
us feeke
to God for
this comfortable
effect
of
his
fpirit
:
Even
as
he can lay
his hand
on this
bodily light
by
a
cloud,
in-
tercepting
the
Ihining
of
it;
fo can
hee with -draw this
illumination
of
his
fpirit, and caufe
us
to grope
as
it were
in
darkneffe,
though
the
eye
of
our mindes were neither
Phut
up,
nor otherwife troubled. Doe
we
not fometimes
fee
things comfortable, and on
a fudden
feeke
them
eclipfed,
when no
finne
hath
inwardly altered
the
(late
of
our
foules,
this heavenly illumination now fpreading
it felfe
through the word
of
promifewee
fet
before
us,
now
prefently withdrawne
or
much
obfcu-
red!
It
is
a
wonder how
weake men
of
underftanding and godly,
wifedome, fhould
fee
clearely and
joyfully the things
of
their peace;
yea,
thewill
of
God,
in
which they are to
walke; and men
for Confci-
ence cquall
to
them,
for underftanding
and
godly wifedome farre
be-
fore,fhould walke
only
inabled
withmuch acoe
to
carry on
their
courfe
in faith and obedience ;
I
cannotfinde any reafon
for
it,
but
in
this
out-
ward
revelation, which
fhineth farre more brightly to the one
then
the other.
Now by
moone light
a
weake eye will reade or write better
then the
fharpeft
fight can by twi-
light,
when now
day firft
breaketh.
Obferve
fourthly,who
iris
that worketh
in us all
true wifedome,even
God
by the fpirit
of
Chrift
:
I
told
you
it
is
therefore
called
the
fpirit
of
wifedome,
becaufe
the
fpirit
from the Father
and
the Sonne doth
worke
it
in
us
:
It
is
not
pregnancie
of
natural' wit,
can make
us
wife
to
falvation,
nor
ripeneffe
of
yeares,
not many
wife
;
and grace wee
fee
is
notcommon
to
gray
hayres
;
it
is
a
fpirit,
and
the
infpiration
of
the
Almighty, that
giveth
underflanding,
rob
32.8. Nevertheleffe, wee
doe
attaine
ripenefte
of
wifedome by meanes,
even
as
we
fee
in
natural!
men, they come
to
a
more
full
meafure
of
civili
wifdome, not without
meanes making
way to it
:
How doth
a
foolifh
youth grow
a
wife man
Firft,
one
day teacheth another; hee
as
his dayes
increcìf
,getteth
know
-
ledge
of
many things
;
Secondly,
lace
tafteth,
as
we fay, many waters;
and findeth
by experience the good
in
fome
things, the
evill
in
other
-
fòme; Thirdly, heegroweth by
fome
meanes
weaned from his youth.
full
tufts, which
like
aback.bias
did
draw after themfelves the
un-
derftanding: thus when
his
knowledge
is
increafed, when
bee bath
gathered experience
and
fowed hiswilde oates,
as
we fay, he groweth
a
wife Raid
perfon
:
In the
fame manner, when
God bath brought
us
on to know,
to
prove things by our owne experience, and to be
wea-
ned
from the lulls
of
finne,
which
are
the true follybound
in our hearts,
then
he caufeth
wifedomein'farre greater meafure to enter into
us.
Wee
fee
then to whom
we mull give all thankes for
what wifedome
foever
we
have received, and
to whom
we mull
flye
for
the
increafing
of
it,
even
to
God, who
giveth
it
plentifully and upbraideth
us
not.
See
what
is
written
verfe
S.
Now