oftrie conuerjora. z57 things as it were under their feet, to flop their Bares tothe callingof the one s and toturnetheir backs from re partaking of the other. Bur the wifedomeof God is infinite, and his iudgementsare fecrer,his Spirit btotveth where itMeth! : ,loim33, it plealeth hiss (as Chrüls words are)to hide thefe things from the Teifeandprn. cheat and to micelle then: unto babes a. The great men and the DoEtours,in our ei moth.n.,ç Saviours time , could fee nothing in him,why theyfboulddefire him but yet the t ltay.T3.z. cho(èh ofGod faw his glory, ae theglory of the one!y begottenSenne ofehtel , full of graceandtruth'. When thegreateft part could behold no excellency in him, but flöhn i. r4. preferred even their twine before him, aid called him Sanoaritene, and laid be had4 diete!l;yet then Come (asMartha and I(jarie, and their brother Latorrrs,and Zacheue, and fuels like) law the tre$ure ofg ce, which was lhrowded under that weake andGmple thew, whichhe made toAse world. So it fell outafterwards in the times of the Apoftles, a great many defriifed both them and theirdottrine as matters ofno worth, in which trftere was no likelihood of any heauenly things; yet even then the eyesoflome were opened , andthey faw inthatbafeve(le the wifcdome of God, and the powerof God. Thisis the wire and vnfearchabledif penfation of the soil high : and with this , in all humility it becommethvs to remaine fatisfied t only this canear mutt beegiven toall thofe whorehearts fe: cretly doe tell them, that they are the parties who fee no(ucla great matterin there things, which Come fo greatly/ ragnife (1 weave thewordandSacra- ments) they cannot perceive 4,oy fuch power to bee in thepreachingand pub.. hiking of the Gorpell,that thelQbouldfo much reverence it, orcome toheare it , or be ruled by it; thee cannot. rdertfand how thefe creaturesof bread and wine fhónkl be fuch notable helpcs: Ito ferengthena mans faith , and to comfort his foule; l tap, let not hieü pleafe daemfclues in theirfsnfeleffrr blindnefle , but let themremember the fearefull raying of the Apolble, ¡faneGófpellhe hid, it it. hid to them that are log r: if thetreafiereoffalgation bee holden fromvs, through the ,a.Car.4¡ feembag bafenelio and weaken:ilc ofthe meanes,by which it pleafeth God that it isoff:red onto vs, itisnomattertobe reiovced in, it isafrarefuil fìgn;it is fo frillwish none but thofethat are loft, whom the Lordhath left vnto dellu&ion: This is one vfe. :A fhcond is toadmonilh vs to beware, {sow in the things which concerne the The x.Vfé: '(em c one of God we doe =acme matters according to the outward teeming. otalfaith,writing to the Corinthians;That when he preached Chrilb4japng the fewer, they regtárrei ofgoe', they looked for fome great miracles,'a4t omeex. ur,Catr,a traprdinarie tettimonie horn heaven, to be glues to the doCirrine : dte Gentiles who abounded in humane learning, and wereskilfulfisArtes, theycxpeaed wifdo re, eloquence, excellencyofwords, and by thismeanes, thétGeifiell of Chrifl was fooláßrses to the one, and afluneblingbloekyy to the other : they looked fo high, that they defk+ifed and thought barely ofthe fimplicitieof the GofpelL Theie error muffbean example unto vs. Our mannerinto lookeupon outward circrnmf}ances,theage ,degree,birth,weaith,learningofthe fpeaker: andas there wasa qrohiou made ofOsrill, when he was called Ief,tsofNers-eth. Can there any good thing, come one of Nazareth.? Co wee imagine their can come no great xlobii 1.46 thing, whereinthe lodgementof hellsand blood, there is fo great vnlikelihood. . But we mull remember that this iscalled a hiddenrreafure ; whichmany times is,wherea mar; would leaft ofall fuppofe it to be. The rich treafures of the earth (gold, filner, and filch like) are not ordinarily fetchedout ofthe goodly fields adorned with graffe, flowers , trees,hearbs,&c. but out of themote barrén pla- ces, out ofgrounds whichotherwife may feemetobeegood fornothing: fo the graces of God are for the moll part brought tovsby theweake{} in(lrnments , and by .thofe which carry the !tail thew in theworld t and the Apoffle gluesa reafon for it,fufficieatto Catisfleany man, That the excellency oftbepother 'night be ofGod Id not ofvsY: & againe, Thatoarfaithfhouldnot be inshewifedeme o ffnen, yx.Corig.o, bee
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