39S ì CriAP.5. 4nExpofìtionvpon the grft Via R.t,x. ter flare; what is the Reafon ? In fix daies God made the World; refled the feuenth; therefore mutt theWorld con- tinue in this flare, fix thoufand yeares ; and then be re- flored ; for with God, e thoufandyeares is as one day ; one day, as a thoufand yeares. Within our owne remembrance, Ogander, Napier, and fundry others, haue buried thernfelues Much in that queflion,and determined too peremptorily of the rime of confutnmation. O curious wits of men ; not conten- ted with things reuealed , and necelfary , they muff needes fearch into Gods fecrets ! Cui Bono; was the old Paying, but to breed quellions without end;rather than godly edifying, which isin_ faith. Holily fpake'hee, that faid in this point,Libentér ignoroquad me feire Deus noluit i lam willingly ignorant, of what God would not haue mee know. And know wee, there is an holy ignorance,befee- ming Gods Children, in things that bee bath pleated to fecrct vnto himfelfe. As holily may wee'bee ignorant of what is concealed, as wee can comfortably know what God bath reuealed. Hereof thus think; 11th the Apo- 4Deut.zg.v. file fo teacheth ; it is amongff thole' dfecretr that be- long to God. yfe. -Let vs, leaning thefe idle and curious inquiries, take notice of the duty concernes vs in refpeët of the vfi- knownneffe, and fuddenncfl"e of Chrifls comming ;.as ar.13.35 our Sauiour commends it veto vs ; Firfc, . To match con. tinuallro 4ecaufe in an hours when we thinke not of it, the Lord fha/lceme; thus conceiue it, that we fhould (land in continualt expeftation of it thinke of cuery day, as Wi t were the -laff Day of the World, wherein Chat -fhall come to ludgemenr. As Hierome profetffed, whether hee did eat or drinke, or whatfoeuer hee did elfe, bee thought he heard that terrible Trumpe founding in his care, elrife, yes dead , and come to lodgement. Oh that there were filch hearts in vs; that the Swea- rer could thinke, It may bee, L o.w n will now come,
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