354 Verf. 25. Expofition upon the Bal; of J o B. Chap. 36, Creation, and the works of Providence, his prefent providences, a:e fuch as we behold, they are vifible works. Secondly , There are inviftble wo:kc of God, which we cannot behold, but muff believe, and can know only by faith ; fuch are his fpirirual works, or what he works upon or in the (pints of the children ofmen : There are written in too final' a letter for the eye of Nature to behold ; none can fee them or behold them but by an eye of faith, or fpiritual underfianding. Thé woks of re- generation and fan&ifcation (for whichGod is wonderfully to be magnitied) may be feen or beheld in the fruits and etfe6ts of them, in thofe they are very vifible, but they cannot be teen in thenfelves. Thepat} and future providences of God cannot now be feen by the eye, but by faith they may,andwe ought to believe that fuch things were wrought, and (hail be wrought we are to receive the teflimony given by faithful Hifiory, that fuch things were done, though we never taw the doing of them, and we are to receive the fure word of Prophecy that fuch things (hail b: done, though we live not ro fee the doing of them. The work of God intended hereby Elihra is a vilible work, therefore it muff fall among his providence(. r.r1K et0 pmner bomines in quibur ell vel mica bone mean, :YIerç:. Verf. z q. Every man may fee it. That is,. fay fome, every wife and underfianding Irian ; but ra- ther, any man,( aswas touched at the former verte) if he be but aman of common underflandina, if he have: ny (park cf Reafon left in bim unquencht, if he have his eyes in his head, he may fee it ; the eyeof every one who will not (hut his eyes againti the light, muff needs fee it. We fay, who fo blindas they that will not fee. ultaa may behold it afar off. The word here rendredBehold,is not the fame which we tran- slate Behold in the former verfe,nor is it the fame word which fi- nifìet h to fee in the former part of this verfe ..Some make* diffe- rencebetween feting in the former part of the verfe,and Beholdi, a in the letter. Holyand good men fee the woks of Cod clearly and di(4ncalf, they lookon them withdelight andcontentment; the common fort of teen only behold them, 6rf, darkly, as at a difiance ; fccondly , confufedly and in groffe. Man may be- hold it Afar
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