A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

But because he orders all things according to the Counsel of his will, Ephes. 1.11. we must conceive some weighty reason did induce hereto, that whatsoever lies beyond this present state of things should be concealed from our immediate view, and so come uno nomine, to be all called Hades. And if the reason of Gods conduct, and the course of his dispensation herein had been equally hidden, as that State it self is, it had been a bold presumption to enquire and pry into it; modesty and reverence should have restrained us. But when we find it holds a manifest agreement with other parts of his Counsel, that are sufficiently revealed; and that the excellency of the Divine Wisdom is most conspicuous and principally to be beheld and admired, in ordering ⟨p. 66⟩the apt congruities and correspondencies of things with each other, and especially of the ends he proposes to himself, with the Methods and Ways he takes to effect them; 'twere very great oscitancy, and an undutiful negligence not to observe them, when they stand in view, that we may render him his due acknowledgements, and honour thereupon.

But because he orders all things according to the Counsel of his will, Ephes. 1.11. we must conceive some weighty reason did induce hereto, that whatsoever lies beyond this present state of things should be concealed from our immediate view, and so come uno nomine, to be all called Hades. And if the reason of Gods conduct, and the course of his dispensation herein had been equally hidden, as that State it self is, it had been a bold presumption to enquire and prie into it; modesty and reverence should have restrained us. But when we find it holds a manifest agreement with other parts of his Counsel, that are sufficiently revealed; and that the excellency of the Divine Wisdom is most conspicuous and principally to be beheld and admired, in ordering ⟨p. 66⟩the apt congruities and correspondencies of things with each other, and especially of the ends he proposes to himself, with the Methods and Ways he takes to effect them; 'twere very great oscitancy, and an undutiful negligence not to observe them, when they stand in view, that we may render him his due acknowledgments, and honour thereupon.