C A P.4. ii ,velation ofthe ApoMyp1e. 19,y difppoffing his gifts, refpceteth the worthineffe ofthofe on whomhe beitoweth his benefits : fo that unleffe they be commended by fome- due defert, either oftheir owne, or of fome other for then, they can hope for no good thing from him. But now, if the bare fore- knowledge of things to come be of fo great reckoning, of what place and price then is the knowledge offalvation tobe efteemed ? 3. arlisdno man Was able. Here we have an ingenuous confef fion of the creatures, that they could doe nothing at all in this mat- ter. Let themtherefore looke to it, that make a creature a Patro- neffe and Mediator for them inmatters ofgreat moment. What need we then to marvel], ifno rnan,theughnever fo (harp-fighred, not on- lyamong the Heathens, but neither alto in all that Popifh kingdom." no, nor the blafphemoullyunerring Popehimfelfe, together with the whole rabble of his Saraphicall Doftors, that challenge to them- felves the prize and praife of all knowledge, learning, pradence and wifedome, do underítand one jot ofthefe holy things ? Thefe things paffe the reach ofall the wit ofman, left perhaps thou fhouldeft rafli- ly reject ought, that doth not fo well ftand with the liking of thofe our great Matters. The diftributionof things in Heaven, things on the earth, andfrench as be under the earth, may be underftood out of the Proclamationof the Angell. He enquired, Who Was Worthy ? This enquiry therfore did not belong to the devills, and thefogies thatjúf- ferpuniJhhmentfor theirfnnes. For what hope or Phew ofworthinefic could there beamong thefe ? Thole in Heaven, therefore are the An- gels; they that are onearth, are living men; thole under the earth, are the Saints, who as touching their bodies, lie afleepe in the graves : whom he doth in this fort noteout by that one part of them which commeth neerer to our fenfe. In which refpeft all() Jacob Paid : But IWill (foe donne mourning to my tonne into the rave, Genef. 37.35. In thefe alone there might be force queftion. This place therefore is too cold to kindle the fire of Purgatory. Neither to look. into it. So reades Th. Beta: Thevulgar, to look! back' : I like rather, laoke in for fo the fpeech is more amplified, feeing this is a greater matter, then nor to open. The Booke could not be looked into fo long as it remained Pealed up ; fo that this ad- dition fhould be vaine in this fenfe. 4. I Wept therefore. It is indeed a lamentable thing, that the Church íhould want the gift of Trophecie. But John bewrayed his weakneffe,having forgotten,or at leaft littleconfide ring, that there is nothing fohidde%,,that it fhouldbeunknown to ourpri;aripallProphet, ll d-a and
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