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VERS.5,
o6f
r.
Goddothnot
in
all agesgive
the likemea-
Cure
of light to
his
Church.
Ephefans,Chap.3.
V
E
ß,
5:
led Paradise,
and
of
the glory
thereof What
more strange
then
to
heare tell
of
the Father
of
Spirits, and
all
the
Holt of
Heaven, Angels,
and
Saints,:
to heare
tell
in
like manner
of
the
place
of
darkneffe,
and
fhadow
of
death,
of
the Prince thereof,
and his aetendantse
If
all
this
will
not provokethee to this duty,humble thy felfe,fufped thy
felfe
of
Come
groffe iniquity
which
filleth
thy ftomach
to the full.
But men
will
objeEt,
as
we find
they have;
r.
That
they have
cal-
lings
which
take
them up,and
fo
many things troubling
them,thatthey
cannot while it.
A
fimple
pretenfe, W ho would
not
fee his
weakneffe
that
fhould
thus reafon, I am
to
croffe
a
very dangerous
troublefome
Sea,
I
need
not
to
ufe
Card
or Compaffe
:
I
am
continuall
in
warfare,
I need no
weapons,
I
care
not
for
carrying them with
mee
So
is
this
;
for the
Scripture
is
to our courfe and warfare
as a
fpirituall
armory
and dire
-
âion.
I,but
they
are
hard,I
cannot profit
in
them.
It
is
falfe, reading
you
(hall
profit; the text
faith,
God
fpeaketh
in
the
Scripture to
the
learned and unlearned, .he
Ant
may wade
as
well
as
the Elephant fwimme
a fucking
babe may
finde milke here;
rea-
ding thou
(halt
knowwhat thou dolt
know,more
perfectly
,
and (halt
learne
that whereofthou
art
ignorant,
and
what
thou canft not
of
thy
felfefinde
out,
it (hall
prepare more
eafily
to
conceive
of
it by
the
help
of
another.
I cannot read.
Get
them that
can; we will
get things
read
to
us in
our indentures,
and evidences, when our
(elves
cannot.
V
E
R
s. 5.
Which in
other ages
was not opened unto
the
Sonnes
of
men,
as
it
is
now
revealed
unto his Apoflles
and
Prophets
by
the Spirit.
Now
followeth the
amplification
of
the thing wherein
her
was
en-
lightned, from the
property
of
it, which
is
by
a
correction explained,
as
if
he should fay,
mymeaning
is
not that
it
was
altogether
concea-
led,
but
is
was
not
fo revealed as
now
it
is
to the holy Apoftles
and
Prophets.
For the
diftinc
lion
of
Apoftles and Prophets
,
it
is
already
layd
downe
verse
1o. ofthefecond
chapter.
That
Gad doth notdeale
with
allages alike,
no
not
with
hù
atone
Church
and
people:
not onelythe
Gentiles had
thefethings altogether
concea-
led
from them, but the
Sonnes
of
men, no creature had them
fo ope-
ned,
as
they
came after
to be
revealed:
fo
touching
our
Saviour,though
it was
told from the
beginning,
he should
be the
feed
of
the
woman,
yet that
he fhould
be the fonne
ofa
virgin,
was
not
fo
cleerely knowne
in
the
first
ages,
as
from the time
of
Elay: fo
the
calling
of
the
Gentiles
was
not
fo
knowne
to the Church
of
God, though
it was foretold that
all
nations fhould
be
bleffed
in
the
bleffed
féed;
in
thofe
former
ages
as
it
was
in
the fame
Church
of
the Jewes,
in
Davids time
and afterwards,
when
in
their
Pfalmodies
they
flung
that matter before the Lord:
thus
fince
Chrift, though the word
revealing
is
compleac,yet God doth
not
give alike light to everyage:when the doétrin was altogether
obscured,.
and