454 A Commentary upon the Go Bl Chap.i7. depraving that Prophetic in the Revelation touching the two wit., nelfes, which they fay are Henoch and Elias,will needs perfwade Bo! urn. de themfelves -andothers, that Elias. the Thisbite mutt come -ere An- P. R. lib 3. tichrift be revealed. Their arguments I recite nor; their Authout cap.6, Papias, who-5a deviled and divulged this fable. NowPàpias that ancient Millenary, fcholar to St lohn,was a man (much refpe- -eted for opinion of his holin:-ffe and learning, but yet homo inge. 1 perrenuis,faith Eufebi,., not much oppreft with wit. But had A hebeen never (o abfolare otherwife, he was Purely out in this. And pu`l tli iríaim herein we may truly fay ofhim as the Papifis fatly Paid ofanother, de.cbrifi Ém Bereng,aritts cumeet multúm perirtu, multUmterravit. But if cte/:(ucceff,¿N 'Papas or any other Ancient or modern Writer (horrid have Paid ftatit.p,evy, fo. much againft the Popith dorages, as this man bath done foc o,rmes manfc them,Bellarmine,likely,would haveanfwered,as in like cafehe did, /t; b.ererici fe to Irenæus, Tertullien, Etafebists and Lather,' anfwer, Theyare t,liell de crì;3o l:b a. aúarrant heretic%t. .641). 9, And theyknew him not]. As neither did they the Lordof lo- ry, becaufeGod had hid him under the CarpentersTon. Chrifirans are all gloriotaWithin, like the Tabernacle, which was goldwith- in, and goats -hair without : like Brutus his ffaf e,which as Plu- tarch reporteth, was gold within,horn without. They are Princes in all lands, but as Princes in forrain land, they are unkyent and thereforeu,nkifi,as the Northern proverb bath ir. But as, had they laYs,nttrat4,,4I. known, they would never have crucified t he Lordofglory : fo, did m,,6itiyuir, f: the world know the worth of a Saint, of fuch aone as was the mod1 Ili, = no. Baptift efpecially, they would have given him but too much ho- 173"o difig'ari pour, as Cornelius did Teter, as Chryff>tom did Babylas, and as nnjai ell' Tert:Wliam did Tome other Martyrs, to whom writing he fayes, Ca.rylcrt 0. nit. contra Nan tanturlam at vosalloquar, 'I am nor worthyonce to Ipeak tsecodies. 'Untoyou. Verfe z 3. Then the Difciplesunderflood] Different meafures of light and grace aregivenat leverall times, as God pleafeth to ,difpenfe, loh.ia.i6. 10,h,2.22. loh ro 41,42. lofephunderftood not his owndreams, nor the Eunuch what he read, tali afterwards. Wait atWifdomes gates, wear out her threihofd : then (hall we know ifL'efo¢low on to ktI6re the Lord, Ho1.45.3, Beg, and dig for underftanding,and thou ihaltbe lureof ir. Prov.2.2,4 I. Verse 14. And When they Were come to the mulrttude 3 That was,the next day after the transfiguration, Luk 9. and in that ruck of rime, when the. D,(ciples could neither cure the lunatick, nor ant Wer
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