God Has Not Revealed Christ to All

This is evident by Scriptures and experience. Isaiah 52:14. That which has not been told them, shall they see, and that which they have not heard, they shall understand. Isaiah 55:5. Behold you shall call a nation, which you have not known: and nations that knew not you shall run to you. Isaiah 65:1. I have been sought of them, that asked not before, I was found of them, that sought me not. Hosea 1:10. And in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people. Hosea 2:23. I will have mercy upon her that was not pitied, and I will say to them which were not my people, you are my people. Acts 14:16. God in times past suffered all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways. Acts 17:30. And the time of this ignorance God regarded not, but now he admonishes all men everywhere to repent. Romans 16:25-26. To him now that is of power to establish you according to my Gospel and preaching of Jesus Christ, by the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, but now is opened. Colossians 1:26-27. Which is the mystery hid since the world began and from all ages, but now is made manifest to his saints, to whom God would make known what is the riches of this glorious mystery among the Gentiles. Ephesians 2:12. You were at that time without Christ, and had no hope, and were atheists or without God in the world. Ephesians 3:5. The mystery of Christ in other ages was not opened to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy Apostles. Psalm 147:19-20. He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel: he has not dealt so with every nation, neither have they known his judgments.

The most wise philosophers among the Gentiles have indeed smattered many things of God: but in the mean time what say they of Christ? Why should they be so exceeding silent in this point, if Christ were revealed to all? Socrates being ready to die said, I depart out of this life, and they do live with whom I am thoroughly to plead my cause: whether it be good the immortal Gods do know: and indeed I think no man knows: And we owe (says he) O Crito a cock to Aesculapius to pay the price of the potion. It is reported that Aristotle being ready to die, cried out, O you who are the chiefest thing of all things which are, have mercy upon me.

The Gentiles knew not God that great benefactor, and therefore feigned to themselves certain saviors, Castor, and Pollux, and Hercules, called [in non-Latin alphabet], that is, a helper in distress, or repeller of evils; and Aesculapius the physician. Solinus says, that there is not as yet any of the Gentiles found, who has attained to the height of felicity, and may justly be accounted happy. Albinus speaks thus: When such like questions are propounded, why one is judged thus, and another after another manner, why this man is blinded God giving him over, and another enlightened through God's assistance, let not us presume or take upon us to judge of the judgment of so great a Judge, but with trembling let us cry out with the Apostle, O the depth.