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(cothing but an how4:z Fairh can do ſo.) This will ſhew every|* ſave the | ” conſcientious Miniſter the vanity of not proving whar he ſaith! &om holy Writ: All other preaching is bur either di# ating, as if| men were to believe what the Preacher ſaich upon his authority of philophizing, ating the parc of 2 Philoſopher or Orator at 4ther;,
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þ Leſt what the Apoſtle had ſeemed ro ſpeak before in defama-! Caoughts and Counſels : So God having in bis Word revpiated his tion of wiſdom, ſhould refle&t upon the Golpel, and give ſome Will, {o far as he hath plainly revealed ic, vi: 1 may know it « P-ople occafion to juſtifie againſt ir their impious charge of folly ; | bur there are deep things of God, Myitcties in Scripicr2, which the Apoſtle bere tomething corretts himſe!f; affirming, that hejtill the Spirit of God hath revealed ro Men, they kt, Not, nor :nd thereſt of the Apoſties tpake W:/zom, and what would be fo! underitand ; for none knowerh chemoriginally, but the S-iric of
judged by ſuch as were p-rfe& ; not abſolutely (for ſo there is no man ; God, who1s himſelf God, and ſearcheth rhe d:cp things of G a perie&) but compara»iv. ly, tihar is, perſons who have their ſenſes 12 Now we have received \ not the iniric at tho
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to it, mull n=celſarity be wifdom, and rhe pureſt and higheſt wif, c4inat men; others underſtand a mecr humane Spike, by witli!
dom. þ Bur faith he, nor what the Philoſophers — _ cunnin | INC und-rſtand and comprenend meer worldly rings. Tits {JI 9
Men, or Polititians of the world count wiſdom ; for all their wif. | certain], 15, we have not a meer word!y fnitruction ind weon ing, dom is ofno fignificancy ar all, inorder ro the beſt end, the ſa!va- ! WE 2re not taught and inſtruſted & om the xorld (fs ce Spir.0 15 tion of mens fouls, and it will all vaniſh, and come to nothing ac P24! for the effects of the Spirit of the worid.- w Bot wearr cx If. | and inſtructed by the holy Spirit, by whom we are raughr, +:; [ . . . ” o | / = af 4 }r & 1e - N20 r id dE t1.3 it chore Frop een the hidden i/dom, * which God ordained before 2 wPeries, or Divine Beeefite, both what God hack dons: for us, and what God hath wrought in us. i3 * Which things alſo we fpeak, not in <
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many Men, bur it is the Wiſdom of Goa, a doftrine direQing the | with ſpiritual 7. vs beſt means tothe beſt end of man. »: It 1s hidden wiſdom, it was ordained of God before the world for our glory ; the way of ſalva« | tion for man, which he had from all Ecernity ordained and de-| creed, but it lay hidden in the ſecret Counſels of God, till the lat- ter Ages of the World, when it pleaſed God co ſend forth his Son inoche World ro publiſh ir, and after him to appoiat us to be the
x Reaſon and a!l prattice direQzth me ro ſpeak and «rice c£ Subjects in a Stile and Phra\: ficred to the matrer abour « {1-2 they write or diſcourſe. Our SubjcRs, faith th: Apotle, were | ſublime ſpiritua! SubjeQs ; therefore 1 dis not difcourte thvn like an Orator, with an exc:Yency of jpcecs or w:. (nom (25 v. 1.3 or wich crea Publers of RE To ns
x : C . CU 771472 5 WH FERN) OVALE! > Q « 4IT2 | 8 * Which none of the Princes of this world|j.,.) bur with words which the toty Gnof hart caught us e.che knew » : for * had they known #, they would not | in holy Writ, or by its impreffions upon our minds, where the have crucified the Lord of glory 0. are firſt formed, » Fitting ſpiricual things to ſpirirual perions
» Which Divine Wiſdom neither Cajaphas, nor Ponrius Pilate, | who are able tou:derſtand them ; or firing 2 ſpiritual lapguige £5 *nor any conliderable number of the Rulers of this Age, whether a. ſniritual nacter, ſpeaking the Qrac!cs of God 25 ra Oracle of Gd, mongſt the Jews, or amongſt the Heathens, underſtood, though | 1 P::. 4. 11. not declaming ite an Orator, nor arguing 7
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they heard ofit. o For if they hadſo known it, as to have believed , | p/-:c31y like an Athonian Philyfopher, but uſing a fami'iir, £34is,
and been perſwaded of .it, they would never have nailed to the | ſpiritual Stile, giving yoa the naked Truths of God withour any
Croſs that Perſon, who was the Head and Fountain of it, and the | paint or gawdry of Phraſe.
as n _—_ a pro gear ern > —_ [4+ Butthe natural man & receivett not the thin e Was God vieſſea for ever, and allo as Mca: ator, being tic Author Snirit p hev arc footitinefk omats hi, wy
of Glory to thoſe who believe. Nor would this Ignorance at all the Spizit of God a, for they are loolilunet> © ra dir
excuſe their crucifying of Chriſt, becauſe it was not invincible, they | **
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ledge of him, and have underſtood what he was, ſo as their Igno-| + There are great diſputes here, who 15 meant by the yaruna!