C A P.3. ,/ evelationofthe A.p©ealypfe. 153 firft fight to dazlc the eyes of fimple men , that know nothing, Lukc- but at length when their vanity is well feen into , they are no ,t arni whit leffe contemned, then was that log that fellfrom 7upiter,Whereof vainigus an Çmage Was made. Thefe garments therefore are to be bought of Laodieea. Ch-rig, as wherewith alone thy nakedncffe may be covered , which otherwife will appcare in a moft ugly hue , caft what other covering foever thou wilt over it. Eyefalve,was ofold time,a falve ofany kind, infuch wife made that it might be kept up till there was ufe of it. At length the name did chiefly remaine among thofe falves , that are made for the difeafes of the eyes ; becaufe Phyficians gaines came in moft merrily through gore of thefe difeafes. Here it is prefcribed againít blindneffc ; namely, thatflefihly wifedom, and ignorance of fpirituall things; We read,of a fenfible onemade ofChriftsfpirtle and clay, Ioh.9. 6.As it were of the knowledge of Chrdi by his word which proceederk out of his mouth, as alfo of the knowledge of our felves, who being made of earth , at the beginning do favour nothing but the earth. Both of thefe two knowledges,are to be joyned,andbeaten together into a lmp, they do nogood fevered one from the other. For our mifery acknowledged, without Chrift breedeth defperation, and Chrift received without a feeling of our own unworthineffe, is un- profitable and fruitleffe. And yet it is not in oar power, to make a mixture andcompound of thefe things, but we mug with prayer ob- taíne it of him , that came into this World unto Iudgement , that they Whofee notJhonldfee, and that theyWho fée might be made blind lob. 9.39, Virg therefore we muff renounce our own prudence, which as long as it beareth Tway, doth fo wholly polfefle us, that it leaveth no place for true and heavenly wifdome, For wouldeft thou (0 Angel) have fet up , and fet up on a reformationwholly forged in thine own brain, unlefle thou hadit been fofiill,that thouhadít been even fwoln np with an opinion of thine own wifdom ? Take a Survey of thy Confitutions, and Canons, in what part of them is the Holy Ghoft called into counfell ? With what authority of Gods word is thy correctingof things amiffe confirmed ? After what example of the purer Church, be our Church matters faln todecay reftored ? Here is deep filence of all thefe things ; we do not once heare in any place of the names of Paul , or other witneffes of the facred upon whofe authority thy decrees might be grounded. I verily thou fhalt hardly find a S sod, even in the corrupteft times tha been, Wherein authorities oat of Gods word, arc moreout of f and tire.
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