32,2 VERSE 3. a C01.4,17. 2 Tit11.4.5 Roma54.9. b z Cora .18. LUk.24.3x. Cor.8.t. Chrifispeople awillingpeople. firme truth ; that if the minds of a man were once throughly and in a fpirituall manner (as it becommeth fuch objeas as are altogether fpirituall) poffelkdofthe adequate goodneffeand truth which is ingrace and glo- ry , the heart could not utterly reje6 them; for humane liberty is nota brutifh , but areafonable thing, it confi- fleth not in contumacie or headfirongneffe,but in fuch a manner ofworking, as is apt to bee regulated,varied,or furpendedby the dictates ofright reafon.Theonelycaufe why men are not willing to fubmit unto Chrift is be caufe they are not throughly and in a manner futeable to the fpirituall excellency ofthe things, illightned in their mimic. The Apofile often maketh mention of alit/fillingand makingfailprotfe ofourminiflery , andof preaching the Go#eIllidy , namely with the evidenceof the Spirit andofpower , and with fuch a manifejlationof the truth as doth commend itfelfeunto theconleience ofa man. `theb Wordof God, faith theApoIlle, is notyeaand nay, that is, a thing which maybee admitted or denied at pleafure , but fuch aword as hath no in evidence in it felfe,nor leaveth any uncertainty or hefitaricie in a minds fitted to receive it. And as wee may thus difiinguifhof preaching,that there is an impede& anda full preaching: fo may wee diftinguifh of undertianding the things preached, in Ionic it isfuil,and in others butfriperfciall ; for there is a Two.*illumination ofthe minds , the one Theoreticall and meerly Notionall confiaing in know- ledge; theother Pratlicafi, Experimentall,andipirituall; confiling in the irradiationof the Ionic by the light of Gods countenance, in fuch an apprehenfionofthe truth maketh the heart toborne thereby, whenwee know things al wee ought toknow them, that is, when the mannerand life of our knowledge is anfwerable to the nature and excellencie ofthe things knowne , when theeye is fpiri- tually opened to beleeve,and ferioufly conclude rat the things fpoken are ofmottpretious and everlaflingconk- quence
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