4 50 c.i Commentary upon the Go el `._.Y. Chap. r 7. quàrn verba. But heknew not what he fhould fay, he was foa. mufedor rather amazed at that blcflefull-light. So Paul;whether in the body orout of the body, when rapt intothe third heaven, he cannot tell, God knpweth , and again he cannot tell, God knósveth, 2 Cor. t z, i.3 Only this he can tell, that heheard dpn,tt. pfrtevra 1i'ordleffe Wards, fuch thingsas -words are too weak tout - ter, and at the thought whereof, Claadicat ingenium, delirat li'ngtiaá , menf4, Itis as impofiible to comprehend heavens ¡oyes, as to compaffe the heaven_ wich fpan, or containthe Ocean in a nucfhel, No wonder then thoughPeter cry our, it is good being here t Or iris better beinghere then at ?era(alem, (fo St Chrgittoae fenleth it) whither our, Saviour had laid he molt go, and fuffer many thins of the Elders, and be killed, &c. That St Peter liked not ; but would build here rather. All men would have heaven, but not the rough way that leads toit: they wcttld enter into Paradife but not through that narrow portail of affliftions : theywould fit in the feat of honour with Zebedee: children, but not drink ofChrifts cup, much Ieflebe baptized with his bapcifine, that is, bedowned over head and cares in the waters of' rndèries. They would feed, on manchet,.tread on roles, and come to heaven, as paffengers at fea do many times to the haven, whiles they are fleeping, or before they are aware. But this is no lefle à folly then a delicacy, thus to think to dividebetween Chrift and his croffe.,to pull a rote with- out pricks, tohave heaven without hardlhip, Onefir thee, one fir Mofes, one #r Elias ] He never thought ofone for:himfelf, he was fo tranfported : but he had provided ill for himfelf and us, if Chrift had taken his cou'i 'èll : for fohe 2_m.1 fhould have declined death, whereby life and imm9rtality traa brought to light to the Saints. And this unadvifed adai e was fo much the work in Peter, becaufe but fix daies beforehe had been Laik 9,3 t. fharply Ihent by, our Saviour, and called Satan for filch cirnalk counfel! : and be(idcs that, even then he heard Mofes and Elio". conferring with Chrift : about his departure, confirming hill a. gáinft it. It'shard to fay how oft we (hall fall into the tame lank (thoughfoul) if left to our (elves. Verfe g. Whiles heyet .s<f äke ] But had no anfwer (becaafe he defer Ira' it nor) to fo fpoldh a propofition. Oily the Father anfwereth for the Sonne, by the oracle out of thecloud, accor- ding_ to ,tlkat,_I bear not witneffe to my felt, but the Father that fete_
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