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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 5: What Spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved, and by what me…
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1. In making inquiries into these things which God hath not revealed; Deut. 29.29. Secret things belong to the Lord our God; but things that are revealed; unto us and to our Children, &c. This curiosity our Saviour checks in his Disciples, Act. 1.6. Wilt thou (say they) at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel? Our Saviour replies, It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. God hath revealed enough to us in his Word for our use and furtherance in Faith and Holiness, and to desire to know more, is to desire to be wiser than God would have us. We must not pry into those things which it is only God's Prerogative to know. The Angels themselves know not some things, and we should be content, as well as they, not to be omniscient. It is dangerous peeping into God's Ark: you ⟨p. 120⟩know who smarted for it, 1 Sam. 6.19. If knowing what God hath revealed do not save us, I am sure searching into what he hath not revealed, will not. God hath told us so much of his mind in the word, as may take up our whole Man in the study of it; and we cannot busy our selves in inquiring into his secrets without neglecting the study of those things, which are revealed, and are most useful for us.
1. In making inquiries into these things which God hath not revealed; Deut. 29.29. Secret things belong to the Lord our God; but things that are revealed; unto us and to our Children, &c. This curiosity our Saviour checks in his Disciples, Act. 1.6. Wilt thou (say they) at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel? Our Saviour replies, It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. God hath revealed enough to us in his Word for our use and furtherance in Faith and Holiness, and to desire to know more, is to desire to be wiser than God would have us. We must not pry into those things which it is only God's Prerogative to know. The Angels themselves know not some things, and we should be content, as well as they, not to be omniscient. It is dangerous peeping into God's Ark: you