CHAPTER VII.

One thing should here, O mortals, be established by us,
that God hath decreed to the world before her end, which
presently thereupon shall ensue, an influx of truth, light,
and grandeur, such as he commanded should accompany
Adam from Paradise and sweeten the misery of man :
Wherefore there shall cease all falshood, darkness, and
bondage, which little by little, with the great globe's re-
volution, hath crept into the arts, works, and governments
of men, darkening the greater part of them. Thence hath
proceeded that innumerable diversity of persuasions, falsities,
and heresies, which makes choice difficult to the wisest men,
seeing on the one part they were hindered by the reputa-
tion of philosophers and on the other by the facts of experi-
ence, which if (as we trust) it can be once removed, and in-
stead thereof a single and self-same rule be instituted, then
there will indeed remain thanks unto them which have
taken pains therein, but the sum of the so great work shall
be attributed to the blessedness of our age.

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As we now confess that many high intelligences by their
writings will be a great furtherance unto this Eeformation
which is to come, so do we by no means arrogate to our-
selves this glory, as if such a work were onely imposed on
us, but we testify with our Saviour Christ, that sooner shall
the stones rise up and offer their service, then there shall be
any want of executors of God's counsel.