lOO Vfi I, Tlure is (ome thing inGods Eilence not to ' I ~e inquired tnro. Rom. 1,11. G o o s Name, I A M. ther~ were more in it, as ifthere were fomc grea:. ter immenfity in his narure:hence th~ ufe is this: That there is fomething ofthe Etfence ofGod, that may not be inquired into, but wee mull:-be content with that which is revealed, Rom, r. r8. Por that tthichmttybe known ofGod,iJ manifefl in tHem, , for Godhath fher<,edit 1mto them.· there is fornerhinO" that may be known, and fomething rhere is tha~ maynot be knowne : therefore, Beloved, looke not for afull knowledge ofhim, but onely f0r a fmaJI degree of ir;as Exod. 33,ll1'yface (faithGad to Mofu) :thoucanflnDt{ee; which place compa– red with that R:dm,t.lo.themeaning is this,that it is-very litdeofGod; that we canknow :even as when a great traine, or glo!ious iliew tbaU palfe I before us, and all is gone, we onely fee the latter end ofit; fo Godpaffedby Mo(es., and he faw but · a littleofhim: even as when you heare rhe latter end ofa fentence, only that which the eccho re: founds, the mainewecannot know. Therefore we iliould Iearne from hence,not to be·fearching and prying into-the counfels ofGod)as to inqllire why fo many are damned,and fo few faved; how · the infallibility ofGotiJ will and the Iibertie of . mans will can ftand·together: tQ aske the reafon . why he fuffered the Gentilu to walke in the vani– tie oftheir owne minds·fo longa time; why bee futfers the Church to ly~,as it cloth at this time : for we might fay as aedeondid, Ifthe Lordbe ttJith - u.r, why- are wee thuJ and thUJ 't Why the Chur- · ches of t.he 6recietn~, thole famous Churches, · have had the golden Candlellickes removed from ~
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