412 C er. 5. Expafation vex the firJ 'V a R4. plaine, and p1entífill preaching ofthe Gofpel? and how would our Fathers haue reioyced in that which wee iProu.17.16. effeerie not it They haue, as Salomon, a i price put into their hand:, toga k wwledge, but bane no heart. kIoh 3.4.4o. The reafons arc; Eirf}, becaufe k their deeds are mill. Ignorance, and irnpietie, are mutual' caufcs each to other: from ignorance proceeds impiety, all the workes of darkncfe;fromworkes of darkneffe, loue of ignorance; through lothnetfe to bane their ¡inner repressed, Secondly, e,Ingußine in his time obferued another : An opinion they had, by ignorance to excufe their finales. 'L11(.12.47,48. They haue learnd of Luke, thatlnnes of knowledge, ' are greater than Gnnes of ignorance : therefore fled ad igno. rattier tene6ras, in hope of excufe ; not confrdering, that it is one thing not to 4yow, another, torefufetoknow.Yea, faith ílugsfl :ale, the fimpleft ignorance of, duty excu- feth no man fo farre, Yt ferapiternoegne non ardeat, f: prep= terra non credidit,quia non aadiuit,tj c fed fortafr sit miti- iss ardeat. Except perhaps it be Paid iu vaine : 'Fevre out thine indignation vpon the Heathen that bane. not knowne thee, and vpon the Kingdomes that haste not calledupon thy Name. From this Rate of darkneffe Gods children are deli- 1 Cor.r3.g. uered : They are not indarknefe. Gods people then, though they be not freedfrom allremaines of ignorance, yet fure after calling, fromgrofe and palpable ignorance. See lob. 6.45.1er. 3 r. 34.. Grof enetreofignorancethusconceiue: it i s partly in refpeflr of the things to bee knowne, partly, in refpc tof the manner of knowing. The principles of Chriflian faith are fo plainly, and familiarly deliuered in Scripture; that euen of a childifh D Hcb. 6.1i. capacitic, Ailing the meanes, [ley may bee vnderftood. 1-eb.6.1. `Paul calls them n the beginnings of Chri/f, the o fr, prin- ciiples of Gods Oracle:. Now howfoeuer in fomematters of greater depth, Gods people may bee to fake, yet in principles they are not ignorant. Second
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