and the favour I ask of him is this, that your kindness to me may be crown'd with farther improvements in knowledge and all prudence;

now we do but indirectly see the faint images of things; but then the objects themselves will be before our eyes; now I have a partial knowledge, but then shall I know, even as I myself am known.

Do you on your part employ all your care in adding to your faith, fortitude: to fortitude, knowledge:

fear them not therefore: for there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed; or secret that shall not be made known.

for there is nothing conceal'd, which shall not be disclos'd; nothing secret, which shall not be made publick.

whatever is now obscure, shall hereafter be made clear; whatever is now conceal'd, shall then be publickly known.

for instance, brethren, if I deliver myself to you in an unknown tongue, what good shall I do you, except I deliver to you the meaning of what is said, whether it relate to revelation, to mystical knowledge, to prophecy, or to doctrine.