The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

In the holy scriptures find we Christ, in Christ find ¹we God: for he it is that is the express image of the father. He that seeth Christ, seeth the father. ²And contrary wise, as Saint Hierome saith, the ignorance of scripture, is the ignorance of Christ. Not to know Christ, is to be in darkness, in the ⟨p. 462⟩midst of our worldly and carnal light of reason and philosophy. To be without Christ, is to be ³in foolishness: For he is the only wisdom of the father, in whom it pleased him that all fullness & perfection should dwell. With whom whosoever is endued in heart by faith, & rooted fast in charity, hath laid a sure foundation to build on, whereby he may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, length, & depth, & ⁴to know the love of Christ. This universal and absolute knowledge, is that wisdom which S. Paul wisheth these Ephesians to have, as under heaven the greatest treasure that can be obtained. For of this wisdom the wise man writeth thus of his experience. All good things came to ⁵me together with her, and innumerable riches through her hands. And addeth moreover in that same place: She is the mother of all these things. For she is an infinite treasure unto men, which who so use, become partakers of the love of God. I might with many words move some of this audience to search for this wisdom, to sequester their reason, to follow gods commandment, to cast from them the wits of their brains, to favour this wisdom, to renounce the wisdom & policy of this fond world, to taste and savour that whereunto the favour & will of god hath called them, and willeth us finally to enjoy by his favour, if we would give ear: But I will haste to the third part of my text, wherein is expressed further in sapience, how God giveth his elect an understanding of the motions of the heavens, of the alterations and circumstances ⟨p. 463⟩