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Sec. VI.
THus our Christian is to reade the scrip∣ture: but what auaileth it to reade that, that is not vnderstood? or how can we suppose that euery Christian can vnder∣stand the scripture which is so hard, that euen they who giue themselues wholly vnto the studie of it, cannot with any paines or means which can be vsed, sound the depth of it?
We answere, that as it is not possible, so it is not needfull for any man to attain the true sense of the scripture in euerie place: and a∣gaine, that it is both possible and easie for any Christian to vnderstand so much of it as will serue for his spirituall edification in all respects. Yea, it hath pleased God in great mercy and wisedome so to prouide for the saluation of his elect, as to make those things which are most effectuall to edification, most easie to be vnderstood, and so to meete with the carnall curiositie of men, as to make vn∣necessary questions and quiddities most in∣tricate, and euen as labyrinthes, into the which it is easie to enter, but impossible to get foorth. And therefore no man ought to be kept backe from reading the scripture, by