The Secrets of God's Counsells not to be pryed into. [ CXII]
THe Israelites charge is, They must not presume to go up to the Mount. And indeed, a boundary were no boundary, if it might be passed. A man knowes by his ground,* 1.1 that an Inclosure is no Inclosure, if it may be common. But how much more must this be conceived of the Inclosure of God, that ground which he hath fenced unto himself for a sanctuary. We must take heed then of profaning the Sanctuary of God, and venturing in sacred things further than he giveth leave. Cu∣riosity in this kind hath been the mother of Heresies, when men have been busily witty in searching into, rather than believing of, that profound Article of the Creed, concerning God the Father. Man that is not able to understand his own Nature, (David confesseth,* 1.2 such knowledge is too wonderfull for him) dreameth, that he can comprehend the nature of God.* 1.3 Others have lost themselves, whilst they have di∣ved into the mysteries of the Incarnation, who are not able to understand their own Regeneration. Thus they busie themselves, as some have done, to know where Lazaras's soul was, when his body lay three daies in the grave, and in the mean time care not what becomes of their own souls; so that, what with the cu∣ous,