Am mom CHAP.5. A Expo/Ztionvox Chef I VE t.r,2, *he sbe and in likelihood there . re rki a nç ; were fucn queltt. ons on fout in the Church ofGod;he preoccupates that inquiry; (hewing that it is altogether curious; and both in it folic, a.-id in terra of them vnnccetTary : becaufe they perfc lly knew their Day of the Lord fl ould come fad denly.. The futnme ofDoEtrinc here taught, is 3. that the Day of the Lords fécond Comming is vncertaine, lud- d n, and vnreuealed; and that vncertaintie and fudden. nette thereof is fet out in 'a double fimilitude; the one ofa Thecfe comming -to fpoiie:the other ofa womans traucl.- The patiage totthispoint is -by way. of Prolepfis ; q. d. Icmay bceinquired, when 'thefe thing (hail bee. Sup. The queftion is impertinent and necdletre: ;, in it folic, becaufe the thing is vnreuealed ; in telpeet of you, be- caute you know it thall be fudden. The points ofobferuarion are thefe : It is are ancient policie of Satan todiuert our fludres and inquiries frorry things resealed and veer Pry to matters offecrecie, and meere euriofuie. That the Lord (hail come to Judgement, is- a.pointreueaked ;. and of necetlary vie to the Church of God; when he (hall come, God bath fecreted to him - felfe. But mans curiatieis made vpon fecrets ; in (lead of meditating,& making vie of that reucaled, it would be informed of the times of fafons. The Difciples had beene ink rmed of the Lords purpofe torefiore the Kingdome to Ifrael; that fufficeth them not to know ;but they muff be acquainted with the time. b Wilt thou at this time re- fforetlse ICingdorne.to Ifrael?Ofthiscuriouitie the Apottle clfe.where complaints; there were that doted, and Cum languijhed aboutquefiuns ntedle(re, that had no poffìble' determitiation by the Word ofGod ;-no maruell, if they macerate &- perplexe théfclues thatare intangled therin. In after -times remained the fame cuil'l, in the Church. Saint .eA4uflin, tells of fome, that hearing theDoElrine of Creation taught in the Churches of God, left the meditation and- holy vie of that Article of faith, and-íç7( to
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