Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

• --------------------~--------~~----· V p R 1G HT NE s. are tHings that no Minill:er in the World can .Then~turall · d h manknowetb teach you; we may propoun t em to you, not the things and you may hearethern fevenyeares andfeven; of God. youmay reade thevery fame things in the Scriptures, and in other Bookes,. athoufand timesover, and yet, tor all'rhis,not underfiand 'them :It is the wifedeme of'Godlna ·df!yjferie, and they 1 are thedcep,ethings ef God: As a man may looke ona Trade,and never fee the myll:ery ofit, he· may looke on artifidall'things;, pictures, or any ·rhingelfe, andyet not fee th~ Art by:which they -are made; as:a manmaylooke ona L'etter;:.ancF yet notunderftand the fenfe, fomething there i$.: that he fe.es,ind fomething th'!t he fees nor, nor · it enters not into his heart; (and-therefore it is -– 'f~id,flein/s;th~y fee not; which argueth that there is fomething, .that they fee.) Thus there are fome things, there is ·a wifedome ofGod, that t an·unfound-hearred- · man can never know, it c-an never enterinto·his heart: whick wifdome· therefore"ifthou.halt,,<;ertainelythouarta per~ ··· fed man• . Youwillfay, Howfl)aili man know-whether J!l!e./1~ he know this wifedomeor mo, whetherhe-thus judge ofthewayes ofGod? _ . Ianfwer ·;You !hall know whether-the wife- · Anfwf$ domeyouh.aue, he fuch ~as belongs to perfect Fquremarkes m~n,orno, by thefe foure things_, which! will k'~~:~1~: ddiverdiftindlyunt~you. wifedo,me. Firlt, You ffiall ·· find this, that when this .. I . Ithumble~h · khowledgeisdifcovered toa man, it exceedingaChriftian~ lyhumbles him, all other knowledge cloth not fo, . .;

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