Cttnt.z1<3 vtCommenlarie vpontbe 48 a but alto ( his godhead manifeffing the fame to his minde ) turn the fe- crets ofhearts, which none but God can doe ; and then proceed to the pronouncing ofa mot+ righteous fentence, according to the qualites of the perlons prefented ; the which fentence once vttered it (hail (land without all gainefaying for all eternitie : Inall there then fftall he thew'. himfelfeas the Ponce ofman,fo alfo the 'nightieGad. Nowbecaufe this appearing is let out to be fo glorious and îearcfull, in that the perronofthis iodge (hall be clothed with all his roabes of glorie and maieflie ; trait the godlyhereby fhouldbe terrified anddill comfited, leaf{ they fhould by reafonof their finnes and infirmities be afraid , and loath tobehold this glorie; and !call that they bering in themfelues fo bale andabica, fhould beginne toconceiue, that they fhouldbe contemned, ornegleéfed of him who (hall (hew himfelfe fo gic sous ; the Apoflle for the comfort of such addeth that although he be a mightie God, yet is he alto enrSsaiour, and will not in all his glory forget himfelfe fo to be : neither can negleCi thole for whole faluation he paid fuch a price as was his deare(i blood. Where allo by the way note,t hat thefe two titles,rhemightie God,and our Suuieur, arenot oftwo fubicels,as fume heretiks haue held, labouring thereby toelude this fo pregnant a tetiitnonic ofthe diuinitieof Chrifi , the weight ofwhich fo preffed them,as that they were glad to flic to a miferablethift,of difioy-- ning them by a colon; that fo difioyned,the former ofthem might more probably beattributed vnto the Father, and the latter vino the Sonne. But the Apolile profetl'cdly (as forefecing how Satan and his ïnffru- tr.rremt 1¡, ments would oppofetheplace) vfe.h but one article ,ro note but one fubieéf , to whomboth thepredicates moll truly andproperly agree. r 1ÿ71%, fÌ The like examplewe haue,t.Cor. r 5. z4.Somuch of themeaning. Now follow the inflrublions ofthe verle. «iecGdilp[u , Doítr. 1. The doftrine ofthe Gofpel truly receiued , liftethvp the tifreth vp the heart to waite for Chritis fecondappearing : for Peeingofthe good ti- hrarrrowaite dings which the Gofpel bringeth , the greatell andbelt part are behind for Chrifls fe eondnppea. vs,and feeingGodpath not his perfeéf glory from vs, nor in vs , neither rinz. we our perfeft happines here below ; and Peeing further it were aboot - leffe thing for vs to ferue Godhere by faith and loue if we couldpaffe no further in affurcd hopeand feded delire of a better life : therefore doch this do&rine teach vs , not onely that the full redemption of the fonnes ofGod from finne, Satan, temptation,and teares is behind; but al fo taifeth the eyeof the mind tobehold,and the affe&ions ofthe heart to longafter the time wherein thcfe things (hall be revealed , wherein we (hall walke by fight and not by faith ; and in a word , wherein our falustionnow begunne m beperfe&ed, and we enioy theharuefi of thofc
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