MEA C x A p.1. EpIJIle to the Theffal011ialt. V E R. 8, , Sure it is,Ignorance whither in Chri flian or 2'agan layes open to the vengeance ofthe great day ,Luke I a.48. There is Simple nefcience; and there is culpable Igno- rance : That wee conceiue to bee bare abfence of know - ledge in things not 'reueiled,or commanded to be knowne. U. e,Ingels know not the day and honre ofIudgement: Nor the Sonne himfelfe, as Man. The particular Reafon of particular Eledfion and Reprobation, Saint Paul knew not, It was their faultlefíèe neícience; not their culpable Ignorance. This, we defcribe the privation or want of that diuine knowledge which ought to be in vs. I mean of things re- uealed and commanded to be knowne. A double light God bath granted to the Tonnes of men; whereby to make knowne himfelfe vnto them. a. His Workes. a. His Word. Eyes wife) he bath giuen them, to make benefit of that light, a Senfe and Reafon. 2 His Spirit and Faith. Thofe, vouchfafed to all, Iewes and Gentiles. Theft, ten- dered to all, and every in the Church of God. Ignorance, whether inuincible, or negligent,orwilfull, neither excufeth a toto, in things reuealed and comman- ded to be knowne. That made our Sauiour fay. Ignorants are * beaten thoughwith fewer flripes : eternally damned, though not fo much tormented. How 'lender then is the Comfort framed or fancied from the Topicke of Ignorance ? fo applauded yet, as if it fhould do (Iced in the day of wrath, as much as exa tefl knowledge in the tnyllcrie of godlineflè, faith Saint Au- fin. The vtmoli aduantage Gmplell Ignorance can doe then, is but vtmitius ardeant. To route vs out of it, Meditate ; Such t x Aliens from the life of god. a In Y fnare of the Diuell, holden captiue of him at his pleafure. 3. No way affured of their being in Coucnant of Grace. For fuch all haue the z einfíion teaching all things : are aall taught of God : b ,now him from the lea fl to thegreateil. Meanes. See i c Excellencie of knowing Chrift; fup- pole that knowledge Treafure, d thou wilt digge for it as tor U Mar.i332. * Luc,r2,48. vf. r Lph.4.18. Y z "I'Í[U,z, z6. ' r Iohn 2Ioh,6.45.. b lcr. 31.34 ` "Phil.;. 8. ProU.z.q..
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