C Ap4. ,Epiflle to theTheffalonians. V E h.15 our inquitition, The month of the Lord had, fpoklen it. To tell you how many haue fallen into errout and herches damnable, by giuing reines to rearm: in this kind, were ewdlefre. We are not,! thinke,vnacquainted,how in that great myflery of the Trinity, fume, by this mean es haue bin blinded, whiles willing to make that tranfcendent nzyflcry hold correfpondence with the (hallow conceit of their vnderflanding, they haue vanifhed away in their apprehentions, and growne to deny that myftery, fò plainly taught vs in the Word of God. Whence grew A- rigs to his heretic , denying the eternal! generation of the Sonne from the Father, and his equality voto him in power,wifedome, eternity, and other effentiall proper- ties of the Godhead ? faue that hee could not conceiue things otherwife in Gods, then they are in humane gene- rations. And Torphyriecontradic`ting that Article of the ltefurreftion, fell thereto by ouer.far inquirie, not able to conceiue how the fubflance of our bodies deuoured by beafts, and fo by digeftion incorporated into their fubflance, could againe bee feuered. Brethren, know we, that kthingsreseeded, fo far as they are reuealed, are oars endear children:, and that faith mull goe beyond rea- fon it+ matters fupernaturall, beleeuing what the Lord fpeakes, euen becaufe hee fpeakes them ; though Nico- denim his queflion cannot be anfwered, 1 How can thefe things be ? See wee now the priuiledge it felfe : it is propoun- ded, firft, negatiuely, We that fisruine,¡hall not preteent them that fleepe : fecondly, affirmatiuely, the dead in Chrifl fall rife firt. Seníe.lt is enquired,howPaadreckons himfelfe among thole that fhould bee found aline at Chrifls f ccond com- ming,fith bee promifeth to Timothy, m the time of hie dsf- folretion was itt.hznd;and after aduifeth this people, ° not tothinke the day of the Lordfo nigh, as to fall within con- paire ofthat generation. A queflion that much troubled Y 4 S.Hierome; 327 k Deut.29.:9. I loins ;. 9. m zTim.46: n z Thcff,a.z.
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