A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feastA glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast

And to invite you, and make you more in love with it, it is a wisdom To your glory. God hath a delight to show himself wise in devising a plot to glorify poor wretched man.

And to invite you, and make you more in love with it, it is a wisedome To your glory. God hath a delight to shew himselfe wise in devising a plot to glorifie poore wretched man.

As for the words themselves, ¹they are a proof of what he had said before, why none of the Princes of the world knew this great mystery. If so be that the eye of any man hath not seen, nor the ear of any man hath heard, nor the heart of any man hath conceived, what do you tell us of the wise men, which were not all, nay what should I speak of men? the very Angels (as we know by other places) are excluded from a full knowledge of ⟨p. 6⟩these mysteries. Therefore it is no marvel,² though none of the Princes of this world knew them. They are universally hidden from all natural men. This I take to be the sense of the words. They are taken out of Isaiah: ³S. Paul delights to prove things by the Prophets: but here it is not so much a proof as an allusion; which we must observe to understand many such places. For Isaiah there speaks of the great things God had done for his Church, such as Eye had not seen, nor Ea e heard: And the Apostle alludes to it here, and adds somewhat, This clause (nor hath entered into the heart of man) is not in that place: but it is necessarily ⟨p. 7⟩understood: for if the eye do not see, and the ear hear, it never enters into the heart of man. For whatsoever enters into the heart of man, it must be by those passages and windows, the gates of the soul, the senses.