The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed

3. Consider, Doth not certain experience tell you that you are utterly unable fully to understand the nature and reasons of those works of God, that are daily visible before your eyes? I will not say, only of the greater and more distant, but even of the least, or of any one of them. I am confident that there is not the least fly or worm or pile of grass (much more the Sun and other Planets) but that which we know of them, is much less then that which no man knows. And should such poor understandings then be so Arrogant as to think to fathom the Counsels of God, and reject ⟨p. 52⟩his plain revealed Truths, because they see not, How such things can be.

3. Consider, Doth not certain experience tell you that you are utterly unable fully to understand the nature and reasons of those works of God, that are daily visible before your eys? I will not say, onely of the greater and more distant, but even of the least, or of any one of them. I am confident that there is not the least flie or worm or pile of grass (much more the Sun and other Planets) but that which we know of them, is much less then that which no man knows. And should such poor understandings then be so Arrogant as to think to fathom the Counsels of God, and reject ⟨p. 52⟩his plain revealed Truths, because they see not, How such things can be.

4. Consider, What a stream of experience do you sin against in this Arrogancy. Doth not every Study that you fall upon, and every days business that you are engaged in, most plainly discover the weakness of your understandings? Why else do you learn no faster, and know no more? Why are you not yet absolute masters in all Sciences and Arts? Yea why are you so defective in all? And yet will you presume to dispute with God, and reject his Truths as unreasonable, after all this experience of your own infirmity, and of your unfitness for works that are so much lower?

4. Consider, What a stream of experience do you sin against in this Arrogancy. Doth not every Study that you fall upon, and every days business that you are engaged in, most plainly discover the weakness of your understandings? Why else do you learn no faster, and know no more? Why are you not yet absolnte masters in all Sciences and Arts? Yea why are you so defective in all? And yet will you presume to dispute with God, and reject his Truths as unreasonable, after all this experience of your own infirmity, and of your unfitness for works that are so much lower?