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We be warned new again in this Text, too reverence Gods incomprehensible ordinance, when we hear speaking of our salvation, and too consider that it is a work which passeth all our capacity, and that if we mind too have such knowledge of it, as is good and profitable too glorify God withal: We must be as it were at our […] end, too say, it is a thing that I cannot understand aright. True it is, ⟨p. 122⟩that we ought too set our whole study thereupon: and it behoveth us too exercise our selves in it all the time of our life, as we see in the other Text. But howsoever we deal, yet must the final knitting up of it always be, that God hath not compassed the work of our salvation, according to our slender capacity and weakness, but meant too humble us, too the end we should be abashed in our selves. And when we have reverenced his everlasting ordinance, which is hid from us, let us employ all the power and ability which we have, too the praising of his holy name. This is the thing that we have to bear in mind: and look what is spoken too all men generally, that must every of us apply• particularly too himself. For S. Paul treateth here of the coming of the Gospel, unto us which come of the race of the Gentiles, and sayeth, that the same is a secret of God. Now if every of us look into himself, and demand this question of himself, how comes it too pass, that I am made partaker of the Gospel? how have I bin brought into the Church? I say, it we consider well these things, we shall all of us from the greatest to the least confess, that our Lord hath wrought after an unaccustomed fashion. For it is not of the order of nature, that God hath so reformed us and created us the second time, too the end we should be his children, and bear his image: but it is a very Miracle which ought too ravish us and amaze us, as I have said already. Let that serve for one point.

Wee bee warned new agein in this Text, too reuerence Gods incomprehensible ordinaunce, when we heare speaking of our saluation, and too consider that it is a worke which passeth all our capacitie, and that if wee mind too haue such knowledge of it, as is good and prof•table too glorifie God withall: Wee must be as it were at our 〈…〉 end, too say, it is a thing that I cannot vnderstand aright. Trew it is, ⟨p. 122⟩