Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…

and as Christ comes to any place, so there breaks forth the light of those glorious supernatural things that are above the reach of reason, yea such things as Angels could never have understood, therefore I remember it is said in one place. That those things are made known to Angels by the Gospel, the Lord sending his Ministers in his Name to preach those things from Christ, that so the Angels come to understand further things in the mystery of the Gospel, than they did before; therefore they are things above the reach of any mens understanding whatsoever.

4 And especially, it will make the Prophetical Office of Christ wonderful, if we add to this a fourth consideration, ⟨p. 96⟩that these things are not revealed to the wisest and the great ones of the world,¹ but to such men and women that ordinarily have the least understanding in the things of the world, those men that have the dullest capacity to understand the reason of things in the world, those that are the most ignorant people in the world, why Jesus Christ chooses out them, and makes them to be apprehensive of the mysteries of the Gospel, such things as Angels themselves desire to pry into. ²Here is a wonder, that such poor, weak, dull, ignorant creatures, sometimes that can scarce be able to speak two or three sentences in good sense together to a man, yet that they should have the clear understanding of the chief mysteries in the Gospel, and such things as Angels desire to pry into, here is a wonderful work, and therefore we read in Matth. 21.15. when the poor children came to understand somewhat of Christ, When the chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the Temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David,³