Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.B65 A2 1641

IO2 I{fE0brAOf true happi4efe: --"; otherpoints ofreligion ; ,he may be fürni'fidwith note of rare and excellent learning, inFathers, Schoolemen, Com- mentaries, Controverfies ; i he may beendued' with fibtilty indifputingand defending the truth.oF God : yea,and in re- folving cafes of 'cohíciencetob fo firre as a formall obferva tion,andFopifi Dcaors-can leáde him. For theirrefolutions. in thatkinde; 'are onely.buried'about cafes incident re their Antichriftian'Hier`archie; about 'perplexities arifing'-out of their will-worrhipai-d bloodyfiperítitio:i; and détermina - tion offotrieparticulars <in the Comma ìdements,which may fall within the° Capacity:- 'ofan ,unregenerate man : btit.tbeir profeffion Tmeine the Papacie, cannot powbly reach unto theheart ofgodlinefre, themyfteryof regeneration, and the. failing power ofthe life to come. Nay, yetbetides this, the formall hypocritemay be made Partakerof foret<e ,degrees of ` the fpirit ofillumination, in underflinding, and interpreting the bóokeofGod,-for thegoodof hisChurch and children. For I doubtinot, but, man have much light' ofjudgement, that have little integrityofconfcience;and are infpiredwith thef iirit-ofillurninatioi :for the goodofothers, that 'have no part in the fpirit óffándification and foùnd' Conti erilen fbr' their ownehappinefïe, Bierye't me thinksthere maybe con- ccivedfome differencebetdvixt the childeof God, and the fbrmall'hypocrite, in the very'fpeulation and knowledgeof Gods truths - and in appreherifibn i:ifthings divineiii the'un- derfianding : Which 1 take tobe fiiéh as thef ,- Flift, thélight`of divine kíàowledge in the airmail l yyö crise,, dofh'oilely difcharge his:beanies aim{br ghtneß_ upon other's;,but neverreturnes andreflec}:s on hiso¿vnefonle to an exae`t difcoveryofthe darkenefieof his otvne underftan- i ding, the diforder ofhis aff:ctions,the fluinberofhis confci- ence, thedeadneffe ofh sheart but every childe ofGod is errer infome rfieafure, both a burning aad alining Lampe ; heisboth illightened and inflamed bwardly'in his-owneun derf anding, Heart andaff":etions abd alfa the brightnef e of ihis Chriftian vertues,. are ever di ieffed 'and 6tkiug upon ii' of/tars Wherefoéver he lives, be íliines. as a light, amid'a naughty i o

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