Eph.4.2 i 2 Cor.3: 6 Eph. 3 5> 9. Co1.r.26. Heb.9.23. rt John 15.2 The Secret Soasthfayer.., thefe they worfhip,adore,and bleffe themfelves in tiling there- of. And though they may goe fo far, as to give the fenfe, and hit the litterall meaning, yet they may be and are farre from the myftery, the true meaningand the mindofChrif, as the Apoftlecalls it , and the knowledge of trutb,as it is inJe- fus. , For if they doe hit the letter , andfquare their difci- pline according to it, alafs they have not thebfe and. power for all that : they who think themfelves moft exalt, and think tohit it, and,imitate it to a tittle; yet they reach but the.thaddow and the Image, the dead letter, and not the life, and the things themfelves, for they are of a farre more excellent and Jpirìtuall natured which no man ( as man ) could imitate nor follow, nor obferve , but onely hewho is taught ofGod, and that it isgiven him from above to believe and comprehend : for, the dead letter is not the life, -but all things that the eye fees, and theeare heares , are things that mull pare away, they muft remove, that fo the heavenly things may come in the room thereof, even thofe things ofwhich all external! things are but the patterns and fimilitudes, Even Chrift himfelfe after the fiefh; and this is that Myferie of Chrift which is hid in God, & kept c7o7e from ages and- genera- tions,but is now revealed in bis Sonne,onlyby theholy fpirt; for,faith theApoftle,it was vecefary that the patterns ofthings in the Heavens fhould be purified with thefe : but the Heavenly things themfelves with betterSacriftces then thefe;for aril is not entred into the holy places made with bands, which are apires' of the true,but intoheaven itfelf,now to appeare in the pretence of God for us. Therefore all things but Chrift in us muft re- move and page away : elfe the heavenly things cannot ap- peare : for whatever is not of the Fathers fetting zap and planting, mull be rooted up , and tis theLord himfelfe muff teach his own worfhip. For Paul clearly confeffeth, he had his knowledge in the myftery of Chrift, by Revelation: for all his great knowledge in the letter, yet he fawhe was blind and ignorant of that, as youmay fee he expreffeth at large inEph.3. at thebeginning, and elfewhere. And noneknow this but the Church, and thofe that are truemembers ofJe-' fus Chrift ; nay the Angels, and Principalities andPowers, know
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