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Ephe¡ians,Chap.3.
V
E
R.
f.
The,
are
lot-
ration left
indarknefle, did
not know,
they
will believe
as
they
belee.
tifh
,bchevichwill
ved,
andnootherwife
:
But
if
this were well weighed
that God
lea-
beheve no
more
Then
veth
Tome
generations
in
ignorance,and the fhadow
of
death, that
his
their Fathers
owne people come not to know
all
truths
in all ages
alike, they would
believed.
this plea
as
groffeignorance.
They
are
a.
So many learned ones who thinks
that nothing
in
opening the Seri-
milk
who will
pture mutt be admitted which cannot be (hewed out
of
antiquity; they
allow no
inter-
are
to know that God
deales
not with the Church
by one
fcantling
of
y
m
the
Scripture
every age,
and
as
prophetic foretold it,
fo he
feeth nothing that doth
bur out
of
the
notbehold
the
gifts
of
tongues and interpretations to bee
farte more
Fathers,
plentifully given
then hath
been
heretofore:
and
fo
no doubt
but
God
will
grace future
ages
with
a
more
cleare
fight
in
the
revelation
then
is
yet any thing
commonly
afforded.
Wee
muff
not
bee
fuperftitioufly
devoted
to
times
paff,
injurioufly negleQing our owne
that
are
pre-
fent, and prejudicing
thofe that
are
to come.
Yj
z.
Here
behold the
benefit
of
thefe Evangelicall times
in
which
wee
The
benefit
oï
live, and
the
priviledges and prerogatives
thereof,
wee enjoy
thefe
thefe Evange-
lical) times in
things that the Fathers hoped
for,
the
things promifed to them
are
ac-
having
greater
complifhed
to
us;
now this
is
a high.
prerogative; the very
confi.
light then
was
under the law.
deration
of
this made
thofe that
lived
before thefe times
enquire
and
fearch diligently when
thefe
times fhould
be. A good
thing
is
better
difcerned
by the want
of
it,then by the
fruition and enjoying
of
it;
and
therefore
hence it is
that
we
fo
little regard it, and they
fo
highly
e-
'teemed ofit;they would
have
thought
themfelveshappy
if
they might
have lived in thofe times wherein thefe promifes'i made
,
might
have been
accomplifhed, and therefore our Saviour
Chrift
faith
:
mat!
fed
areyour
eyes
,
for
they
fee,
and
your eares,
for
they
heare
fuch and
[ach
things
as many
Prophets,
Kings,
and
righteous
men
have defred
to
heare
and
fee,
and
yet
could
not.
The
fccond
part
of
the
verfe
hath
three circumfiances
to
bee ob-
ferved.
a.
The
time
of
further
revealing,as
now.
z.
The
Perfons,
to
his
holy
Apoflles
and
Prophets.
3.
The Authour,
by
the
Spirit.
Dolt.
The
a. doth let
us fee,
That
pace
Chrifi
we
have
more
fully
opened
the
Since
Chriff
myflery
efour
falvation:
Their
revelation was
a
hiding of
it in
compari-
we
have the
fon
of
this we have
obtained.
To
thew the point
; we
fee
that
thefe
nation
more
offs-
times
fince
Chrifthave three
things which
needs muff worke
a
further
nation
Fully
opened,
enlightening.
z
Pet.t. ,9,
r.
A fuller word revealing
and
more
cleare
word;
theirs
was
as
and that in
a
candle,
a
light
fhining in
a
slake
place;
ours
a
miniflery
full
three
things.
of
glory
and
light: now
as
the
eye
by
a
great
cleare light
feeth
better then by
a
little
dimme
one;
fo
it
is
with
us.
2.
Thefe
times have
a
more
full inward illumination, which
is
the
eye
of
the minde, wherewith
wee
fee
by
mean
of
this
revelation the
fprit
now
is
Fowred out
:
now
as
a
quick
be-
dily fight feeth
by
benefit
of
light without better then
a fight
more