The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

If any shall here say, [But why would not God let us have a sight of Heaven or Hell, when he could not but know that it would more generally and certainly have prevailed for the conversion and salvation of the world: Doth he envy us the most •ff•ctua• means?]

I answer; 1. Who art thou O man that disputest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? M•st God come down to the bar of man, to render an account of the reason of his works? Why do ye not also ask him a reason of the nature, situation, magnitude, order, influences, &c. of all the Stars, and Superior Orbs, and call him to an account for all his works? when yet there are so many things in your own bodies, of which you little understand the reason. Is it not intolerable impudency, for such worms as we, so low, so dark, to question the eternal God, concerning the reason of his Laws and dispensations? Do we not shamefully forget our ignorance, and our distance?

I answer; 1. Who art thou O man that disputest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? M•st God come down to the bar of man, to render an account of the reason of his works? Why do ye not also ask him a reason of the nature, situation, magnitude, order, influences, &c. of all the Stars, and Superiour Orbs, and call him to an account for all his works? when yet there are so many things in your own bodies, of which you little understand the reason. Is it not intollerable impudency, for such worms as we, so low, so dark, to question the eternal God, concerning the reason of his Laws and dispensations? Do we not shamefully forget our ignorance, and our distance?