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

Th• word it self, indeed, properly taken, and according to its just extent mightily greatens him i.e. 'tis as much as to say, his Dominion is of unknown limits; such as no Eye can measure. We think with a sort of veneration, of what is represented as too big for our knowledge. We have a natural awe and reverence for unsearchable darkness. But in the mean time we herein suffer a just diminution of our selves; that when our enquiry ⟨p. 16⟩stops, and can proceed no further, it being but a very little part of the Universe that lies within our compass, having tired our enquiring Eye, and Mind, upon all the rest we write Hades, call it unseen, or unknown.

Th• word it self, indeed, properly taken, and according to its just extent mightily greatens him i.e. 'tis as much as to say, his Dominion is of unknown limits; such as no Eye can measure. We think with a sort of veneration, of what is represented as too big for our knowledge. We have a natural awe and reverence for unsearchable darkness. But in the mean time we herein suffer a just diminution of our selves; that when our enquiry ⟨p. 16⟩stops, and can proceed no further, it being but a very little part of the Universe that lies within our compass, having tir'd our enquiring Eye, and Mind, upon all the rest we write Hades, call it unseen, or unknown.

And because we call it so; in reference to us, God himself calls it so too. It being his way (as is observed, by that noted Jew^*) speaking to men, to use the tongue of the children of men, to speak to them in their own language, and allow them to coin their own words. Which at first they often do very occasionally; nor, as to this, could they have a fairer, or a more urgent occasion, or that is more self-justifying than in one word to say of that other World, that it is Hades or invisible, when that is truly all that they have to say, or can have any immediate notice of about it.