C1,ap,13, according to St MA T T M aVV. 381 heavenly light. Hence Prsv.30.3.4. to knowheavenly things,is to afcend into heaven. And Luk.I 2.48. to know the Matters will, is the great talent of all other : there is a [ 1friucb ] fet upon it. But to them it is notgiven] By a ferret, but moit ¡aft judge- ment ofGod, who hath mercy on whom hewill, and whomhe will he hardneth. The reafom of many things nowhid from us, wedial' fee at the lait day. Have patience, and be content in the mean while, with a learned ignorance. Verle Ia. ForWholever hatb, to him fha11be given] fc. If,he have it for pra &ife, not elfe, Zach.11.17. Men, to the hearingof' the word, mutt bring with them the loan and advantage offormer doctrine communicated to them, if they mean to do any goodof it. And then, as Manoah beleeved ( before the Angell vanifhed in the facrifice) and fought no fuck figne to confirm him, yet had it : to Godwill heap favours upon them, and every former gall be a pledge ofa future. God gives grace for grace, that is, fay tome, where he findes one grace he gives another. From him fhall be taken away even that he bath] That he feems to have,faitbSt Luke, for indeed all he hath is but a feem- ing, a femblance, he waiketh in a vain thew, he hath only the var- nilla of verme, which God (hall wa(hof with rivers ofbrimstone. Albeit hypocritesare commonly detededeven in this life : how elfe fhould their names rot, as everywicked mans mutt. Verfe 13. There f re .ffeak. I to them in parables] Becaufe their willfull blindenelle aad ftubborneffe deferves I Ihould do it. They are flatters aping their own fotsles, let them rae it therefore. And hearing they hear not] fludíentes corporis fenf, non audinntcordisafen/,faith Anguffine. Verse 14. la them is i1firied ] Avct973\11Q6: is again fulfilled. q.d. It is even with thefe now, as it was with thole then. The tame fable is aded,the (cene only changed. Mens hearts are as hard as e- ver they were, the grace of the Gofpel hath not mended them a whit, nor ever will do,till God ftrike the ftroke. And od not underhand] Dens ids in lingua f a Farba- rus, qui in Chriltto, ¡is Attic;a., their wit ferves them not in fpiritualls. Seeing ye fhad fee, andnot perceive] As Hagar faw not the fountain that was afore her, till her ties were opened. Verte .,4.ag, de coy: Q9' g!ritia, c.7. ifta,eLAU.jJ- guTrr,gs. Be tell
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