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Yfs
r.
AgainR
Pa-
pi(ts;Saints
departed can-
not
heare
our
prayers.
Objeci.
r.
objeiP. 2.
objeit.
3.
objef.f.
4.
Ephe¡tanr,Chap.3.
V
>e
R.
110.
r.
They
did
fee
accomplifhcd before their
eyes
things
they
had
knowne
in
fome
fort,
as
we know things abfent un-
accomplited.
a.
They
did
thus
grow
to
a
more
full and confirmed enlighten-
ing
in
the
wife
work
of
our Redemption.
3.
Which
is
the principali, they
did thus
come to
a
more
full
knowledge and acknowledgement
of
the deep
riches
of
the
wifdome
of
God,
the
founraine
of
the former.
For though the
Angels had alwaycs
a
bleffed
knowledge
of
God,
yet not
a
perfect, either
in
regard
of
themfelves teeing, or
God
feene,
they
did
not
fee
him totaliser,
fo
as
there
was
no further thing
in
him
to
be feen, nor yet
with
fuch
a
fight
in
regard
of
themfelves,
fo per
-
feét,
that
no
further light
could
be
lent it then it had.
This
then
thus
opened
of
the Angels
fucceffive
knowledge by revelation, or other
-
wife;
It
doth
firft
confute the moft probable way
which the
Papilis
can
find
for the
Saints
in
heaven to heare our prayers
by:
for firft they
fay
the
foules
of them maybe here
on
carth;but
it will
be a
tottering
prayer
which
is
grounded upon
a
peradventure.
Secondly, they
fay
the Angels
may tell them: but
who
gave them
this
office
of
riding poft betwixt
us
and the foules now
bleffede
Thirdly,
they
fay, God
doth
Chew
them ; but then it
is
likely
the
Church
would
pray to
God
to
Thew
their prayers to
S. Peter
&
S.Pa,I.
Fourthly,they
fay,
that they
fee in
God,when
men call upon
them.
But we oppofe to this,
that
the Angels know not many
things
till
they
are revealed,they
fee
the
face
of
God
,
and did
Co
when Chrift
faid,
no Angell
in heaven did
know the
day
of
judgement.
objet. f:
But
they
fay, we hold
not
that they
fhould fee
all
things,
but that
which maketh them
bleffed:
now
this
doth
agree to them to this
pur-
pofe,
that they
may
be bleffed.
vfo[w.
It
is
faife, for
this doth
not
concerne
them, nor
any creature,
but Chrift
by
vertue
of
his office,
objeel.6.
as
themfelves
fee
in
part. And that which they
fay,
that though not
by
vertue
of
office
,
yet
as
fellow- commoners with
God,
it
is
meet
they
fhould
have this honour to heare
and
preferre requefts. daf:r.
This
is a
furmife
of
their owne humane reafon,
the
wifdome
ofwhich
is
folly attd
enmity
againfl
God.
Yfe
s.
This,
that the
Angels make further proceeding,
doth
teach
us
patience
though
wee doe
not
fee
God
as
wee
defire,
though
wee
cannot comprehend his workes
as
wee with ; the Angels
came
not to
all
at once
;
we
muff be infants a
while
, and fee
as in a glaffe
things abfent, we
in
time come
to
fee
them
prefent,
to behold
them
fulfilled.
rl
3.
Left
this fhould be
perverted,
we muft
know that
if
the
Angels
by
that they
fee
grow
up
in
knowledge
of
the worke
and wifdome
of
God,
then whatfoever
we are, we muft
hill be
learners and profit
in
that
we
fee
and
heare.
Grow,,
in
the
acktto
led
,¡
EoloII:
t.
to.
The
lati thing
to
be
marked
in
the
vertes
this:
the
thing
in which
m-a
L
they