Chap. 36. e4 E.^ poj on upon tìeBock of jn B. Verf. 3. z i not cake up, floc trod*: job with th tads that were obvious, corn- mon, or eafie tobe had, btu baing what he had to t.y : ut of the clad{Cabinets, and utter conc. cptiens,whichwcieu:ellremote front the common road. There is yet anotherapprëh :níion concernine El hu's p;rrro!e, when he faith , I will fetc,ti mt k. orzledge frowafar , vi h which I rather clófe thanany of the former ; that his imat,ing was ro (peak to fob of thofe things, whichas they a.e not eat-Cy comp. e. hended, becaufe the fublitneff works of God in naru7e,fo becaue they might feem far from the preïent matte; ; A it he had íair1, We have been arguing all chis while abour Gods di :'pentari<aas here below, but now Ile fpeake of thingsthat are wrought above, of thofe both ufeful and dreadful or terrible Me'eo,s, the fnow and raine, the windes, the lightening and the thunder ; thefe thingsmay be thought very forreigne and hererogeneal, very far otf from the bufinets in hand, but I will (peak to thee of there things, even of the works of God in the Heavens, in the Air, in the Chambers of the Clouds, and I will convince tl ee by what God doth there above, ofhis righteoufnefs, in what hedoth here below. The wifdotmme andpower of God, in ordering thofe natu- ral works in the Clouds, and in the Air , prove that man bath no cattle to complain about his providential works on earth : For as chofe won,erful vifible works of God are real demonftFarions of thofe invifble things of Frod,his eternal rower and God -head, fo they declare both his righteonfnefs and ,ocdneis, his wrath atad mercy towards the children of men in the various difpenfations of them. And fo although thofe things might be thought far freni the poynt which Elibn fuppofed Yoh q ref coned, at leafs by con- fequences,the righteoufnefs of God in his revere dealings with him,yet indeed they contained principles or general grounds, b; which that which Elibu had engaged to maintain might be fully confirmed and unanfwerably concluded. This, I conceive, is the fpecial afar of, that Elihuintended to fetch his knowledge from;, as may appear in the clofe of this Chapter, and in the next, quite thorow. I willfetch rtoy 'carriagefrom afar. Hence rote ; Fi_rfl, The natearal works orGod,or the works of God in nature,are to be f odied and fearched ant. V As
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