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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40520	Sermons concerning grace and temptations by ... Thomas Froysel.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1678 (1678)	Wing F2251; ESTC R1406	217,249	284

Divine gift The Knowledg of the Mysteries of Heaven is a gift from Heaven To know God it is from God Christ is the gift of God and to know Christ is another gift And therefore the Apostle saith That faith is the gift of God Eph. 2. 8. Psal 119. 125. And therefore saith David Give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies To understand the Divine Testimonies is a gift God must not only give us the Objects of Knowledg but also the Knowledg of those Objects Man lost his Knowledg and therefore must be created again and renewed in Knowledg after the image of him that Col. 3. 10. created him God must set him up again with a new stock of Knowledg else Man can know nothing The Mysteries of Heaven in themselves are intelligible they are glorious and radiant Objects they sparkle with splendour in our eyes but blind men cannot see light without a light we are dark within while the Mysteries of Heaven shine like the light round about us And therefore God must give the opening of the eye to see the out-breaking of the light upon us 2. The Knowledg of the Mysteries of Heaven is given to some To you it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven I know saith Job that my Redeemer liveth Job 19. 25. Vers 26. and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God Job knew the Mystery of Redemption and in that glass he saw the Mystery of the Resurrection He knew one Mystery in another In that he knew he was redeemed he knew he should rise again Our redemption implieth our resurrection Job though he lived in dark times yet he knew these Mysteires because to him it was given to know them I know Psal 119. 5. O Lord saith David that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me He knew First The judgments and dispensations of Divine Providence Secondly And he knew that those Judgments were right Thirdly And he knew the mystery and meaning of them That God in faithfulness had afflicted him Christ saith That his sheep know his voice I am the good John 10 14. shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine They are gifted with discerning that they know the voice or Doctrine of Christ they are so well acquainted with the Mysteries of Heaven that they know what is the Doctrine and what is not the Doctrine of Jesus Christ When it pleased God saith Paul to reveal his Son in me Gal. 1. 15 16. There was a time when the Mysteries of Heaven were vailed from Paul and afterward were revealed to Paul God in his time gave him to know what he did not know before Thus you see the second point That the Knowledg of the Mysteries of Heaven is given to some 3. The Knowledg of the Mysteries of Heaven is not given to others Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in Deut. 29. 2. the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants and to all his land The great temptations which thine eyes have Vers 3. Vers 4. seen the signs and those great miracles yet the Lord hath not GIVEN you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day They saw much and yet they saw little They saw great things and yet they saw nothing nothing to purpose they had not a spiritual apprehension and use of the great works they did see In Psal 82. 5 They know not neither will they understand Psal 82. 5. they walk on in darkness all the foundations of the earth are out of course The Psalmist speaks of such as were great men the Judges of the earth they knew not how to administer Justice uprightly and impartially In Isa 1. 3 The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his masters Isa 1. 3. crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider They are more brutish than the brutes Asses indeed more sottish than the Ass they eat and drink and seed upon Gods Provisions and yet know not God who provides all for them The Papists in their Legends abuse this place and coyn a Fable that an Ox and Ass being in the stable where Christ was born took notice of him and did cherish him with their warm breath as he lay in the manger The story is meer Fiction but Sinners are so brutish that they do not what the others fained the Ox and Ass to do The Lord Christ is come into the world but they take no notice of him he is laid in the Manger of the Gospel but they know him not Did Christ lye in a Manger for you and shall he not lye in your bosoms Ah Sinners more brutish than the Ox and more silly than the Ass In Acts 14. 1 2 There 't is said that Paul and Barnabas Acts 14. 1 2. so spake that a great multitude of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles Here to some was given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to others 't was not given In the 17th of the Acts at the 32 34 verses When they Acts 17. 32. heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked but others 34. clave to Paul and believed Here to some was given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to others 't was not given In Acts 28. 24 'T is said That some believed the things Acts 28. 24. which were spoken and some believed not Here to some was given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to others it was not given The Heathens could observe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Hliad That God doth not give all things to all men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To one man God gives Martial skill for War to another the Art of dancing to another that of singing and of musick but to another he gives a wise and prudent mind In this dispensation of God wherein to some he gives the Knowledge of Divine Mysteries to others he doth not I say in this dispensation there is both Soveraignty and Justice First In that he gives not to some the Knowledg of the Mysteries of Heaven there appears Soveraignty For in another Text the Lord Christ saith Father thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Mat. 11 25 26. Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight Here Jesus Christ gives no other reason why the Mysteries of Heaven were hid from the wise and revealed to babes but only his Fathers good will and pleasure Secondly In this dispensation of God wherein the Knowledg of Divine Mysteries is not given to some the Justice of God appears Which