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R
;
8phefaans,
Chap.3.
I
31;
Immediate, without the benefit
of
fenfe
,
as
t/iEls to.
and Paul,
i
z
Car. 12. Pauls
revelation may be underftood either
of
a
mixt
,
or
of
this latter
kind
,
for it had
fotnewhatdiffering from the more timely
Apoftles.
1.
Then that the Apoftle
having calling from
God
, received
his
meffage
and inftruátions from
him,
he
doth
teach us,
that
Thof
whom God
fendeth,
God
alp
teacheth
to
that
purpof.
Wee
fee
-12°,11-
Princes doe not difpatch Embaffadours,
but they
furnifh
them
4iirft
I
Fe
áe
h
he alto
with Precepts,
and with
their
pleafure
which they would
have figni-
tcacheth.
fled,
fo
doth God
in
Chrift
, fending any
to men. A scribe
mnfl
bee
Mar.13. ça.
taught
to the kingdome
of
God.
And our Saviour
Chrift
fends
out
his
Apoftles with this Commiffion,
Teach
rohatfoever
I
have
commanded
alai.
=ß.=o.
you:
So Paul
1
Cor.
r
I.
23. What
I
have
received
ofthe
Lord,
that have
I
delivered
unto you.
Now
this teaching
is
of diverfe
forts:
mediate,
or immediate;
in
the
fpirit,
or
in
the letter,
as
in
the
eleven and
Iudas:
Buthowfoever the
Lord
fendeth none,
but hefirft
fo
informeth them,
that that they
can fignify
his
pleafure.
So that
it
letteth
us fee
what wee
are
to thinke
of
them that
are runne
upon
the
Miniftery
withouttheir
errand
in
their
mouth,
they
runne,
but
Icrem,
=;.,,r.
GodPentthem not.
True
it
is
that they
may enter thus, and after be en-
abled
:
Some
mens
faults
goe before,
and
feme follow
after,
nevertheleffe
this
is
certaine
,
till their repentance
,
that
humbling themfelves,
they
have found force fupply
oftheir
wants, they are
not to
be reckoned
as
fens
from
God.
It
muff
teach
us
to
feek
the knowledge
of
Gods
will
before we
take
Yfe
2
upon
us
to
make
publication
ofit:
Looke
Gal.
x.16.
Paul faith
of
him
-
felfe
that
he
was calledofGods
grace and that
God
revealed
his Sonne
in
him,
that
he
fhouldpreach him
among the Gentiles.
Yea we fhould feek
this
not
in
the letter, but
in
truth
and
power,
that
wee may
not
fpeake
ofthefe
things
as
men doe
of
countries which
they
never faw
but
in
themappe.
2.
That
Paul
by
revelation
commeth to
learn;
which fignifieth
the
taking away
of
a
vayle.
Obferve hence,
That
allof
na
have
a
vayle
on
our
eyes
which
letteth
tie
from feting
DaEl.
theft
things
till
they
are revealed.
Paul was
no
Cyclops
but
quick. fight-
we
have by
ed,
and
yet till thefe things were
by
revelation opened
to
him ,
he
did
nature
a voile
not
underftand them: So it is, we have
fcales
on
all our eyes ,
which
ea=
will
not
let
us
fee
till
the Lord
make
them
fall
off,
ignorance
doth
fee
fpiriruall
dole
up
the fight
of
the
minde,
till
the Lord with the
beanies
of
his
matters
till
light
Both difperfe
it:
we
are
all
borne blind from
our
birth,
and
cannot
k7
here°``_
conceive
or comprehend the myfteries
of
grace and
of
Chrift
;
the
natural
man
perceiveth
not
the things
of
God
neither can
he
,
becaufe
they
r
Cor.=14.
are
ffirituallydiperned. Hereupon
David prayeth,
open mine
eyes
that
Pfal,rry.,a.
I
may
fee the wonders
of
thy Law ; it is
not
want
of
light
in
the
Scri-
ptures, but vayles
of
darkneffe over our eyes,
that
keep
us
from
feeing.
For while the heart
is
vayled, the eye cannot
fee as
it íhould: and as
this corporali and afpe6table
light comming into
a
room`,
maketh all
the