the Cloudis taken of the Tabernacle. thefame fpirit that taught it,and unlefs the fame Spirit that raifed up Iefus Chrift from the dead doe quicken us. Al- though the learned&men in theworld open it, it will not raife up onr mortali bodies, nor be any favour unto life. Now from hence , let but theworld judge, who are the B LA S P HEME R S, andwhat is blafphemy , ifthis be not ? We fay none can truly teach the fpirits of men , but God himfelf, and none can come to the Father but by the Sonne, andhe to whom the Sonne will reveale him. And they fay,the way to underffand the Scriptures, is toget learning and the tongues, and to reform their lives, to get into this or that fel- lowfhip ; I fay , this fbarply reproves them that fay they can open it with the WOOD D EN and fleJhly key of carnali wifdom and humane learning; for we have (hewed how there is a cloud upon the tabernacle to this day, that none can removebut only God Himfelfe, not onely in re- gard ofmen, but ofSaints: for though a Saint bebrought to fee into the Tabernacle, and to behold theglory of the Lord , yet when Godpleafeth, a cloud (hall interpole it felfe, that this Tabernacle (hall be hid and covered again, .and again, nay it (hall be in hidingand opening continually unto the foule : *for theglory of theTabernaclewould not be made out, were there not acloud to make it out by : the flrength of theLord wouldnot be made cut, were there not weakneffe to make it out by ; the light of the Lord would not be made out,were there not darkne. e tomake it outby ; and therefore there is a cloud on the tabernacle, and tis tie- Lord only that removes it, that they may goeon inall their Journeys : andwhen he doth it not,they mull fitftill; and he doth it or this very end, that the glory of God may be more made out, and that the foule of man might More rully,more glorioufly, andmore welcomly enjoy thole dif- coveries. Light cannot be made out in light,and wifdom in.,'ifdome, but light in dar&ne(3, and wifdom in folly, andßrength in weak, ne(l, and fuúnefs in emptinefs, and riches by poverty, andgrace by fin, Alfufficiency by infufficiency and nothingnefi ; and even things that are high in things that are low; one .deep calls unto another: III Rom.8.ii. er 2 Cor.6. 14. Matti. i t , 27. 'E Mark this.
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