394 Cnnr.5. "in Expofitionvpanthe Va R. e,2. time andlea /on of Chrifis fecond Comming,isamong Gods reerets, that mull be adored ,ratherthan fearched into. Not Scripture, but the euent only reueaIes it. Of P Fh.st ¡lay and honre knower no man ; no not rho pilnel., no, nor the Smile ofman, as he is man. Truc, fay fame ; not the day and honre, but the ycare, at leali the Age, w thon Come (mall compatIIe of time may bee knowne. I wonder by what calculation, that the Scripture affords vs. Saint Panllpeakes here, not of the fcalons onely ; but of the times;and of both teacheth,they are vnreuealed.The dif- ference betweenc the termes, the learned in that Lan- guage thus afligne, xepve- lignifies time at large ; and often, time of the largelt : Guegs, the Article and point of time, that determines opportnnitic, as if to the point in hand the Apoftle would fay ; Touching the Yeere, or Moneth, or Age, when the Sonne of man fhall come, it is as much vnreuealed, as the feafon ; whether in the jbrmg,or fall,by day or night,at q midnight or At coclee -crow- ing,or in the dawning, as our Sauiour himfelfc fpeakcs ; both are equally vnreuealed, and therefore curioufly in- quired. r ft is not for you to knew the times and feafons which the Fa!her bath kept in his owne power ;faith our Sa- uiour to his Difciples, in a point conioyncd fomething neerc with the finali confummation. .both any aske rcafon of the concealement ? particu- lar we haue none to afli gne a this onely let vs be allured ; had it beene expedient for vs to know, fuch is GODS lone to hisChurch, hoc would haue imparted it, as well . as other teems to our notice. What is writen, wee are Pure was written for `our profit ; what is concealed, wee are asfure was not necetlary to bee knowne, rather ex- pedient to be concealed. And to fay truth, what profit might wee imagine to come from the revealing, that . flows notasfully from the concealment ? perhaps our preparation,.would be more haflened, and the maliccaf the worft men thereby ref-trained. Firft,
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