Chap. 3 6. anExpolitiox urn the fookofJ o B. Ve, f. 2 5 . Afarof. f There is a four-fold conception about that afar of Tir11ö Viet , Some expound it for afar s fin time, The work of God i Lange, doh not weave out ; that Etrfl avid great vifible work of Creation Mont: u' which was from the beginning, yet remaineth. Ages pafs away, fEniWrnnari,:ne i.e. a but the workof God Both not pafs away, though done fonje bun- ,nundi boc aqc dreds, yea thoufandsof years ago. Rab: Solo - Secondly, 'Afar off, that is, imperfe&ly, not fully ; he may Noah. font have fome difcoveriesof it, every man the weakefl man may dif- P Pk ra,ïor' cern fomewhat of it. Things that are high and afar off , are con nem clue, fufedly feen, not clearly or fully difcerned. Amail that is afar off Pifct cannot be diflinguiflaingly knowne. Wh.:n a man is afar off, we may fee him to be a man, but what manner of man he is, or who, he is, we cannot dilcern ; though poffibly it may be our own fa- ther, yet being afar off we cannot know him difftte&ly. Thus to fee afar off notes only a confufed knowledge.That's a good fenfe; thingsafar off are not diflin&ly teen. Thirdly , Afar of maybe expounded of all the fight we have on this fide Heaven. In this world we fee all that we fee afar off, we have not a neat intimate knowledge of things , efpecially not of thebeff things, fpiritual things, of all them we muff fay, Pre- know but in part, and fee thorow agla f f e darkry , as the Apcfile fpeaks,( Car. i 3. 12.) Such thingsas are not immediate tous, F weare faid to fee thorow a glafs, or as reprefented in their ef- rioe.Sc P'`_o febis, and iffues, or in ¡heir back parts, as God himfelf is feen. ( Exod. 3 3. I%) 2 3. Thou fhalt fee my back parts : but my face fhafi not be Peen, faid God to Mofes when he moved to fee his glory. Fourthly, This beholdingafar > ff, may none the greatnefs of the work of God, the exceeding light fomnefs and gio-toufnefs of it. Thofe thins that are great, may be feen a great way cif. A high Tower is feen afar off, We hardly believe the &&i.= and reports of Afironomers, how far off the Sun is, which every eye beholds. Though the. Sun be fomany thcufand milesdiflanr, yet any mamma} fee ir, 'tis fogrear, fo beau, iful, fobright a bo- rly. Many >f the works of God have fuck a beauty, radiancy and hiller in them, that any that are nor (lark blindmay fee them afar 'Ff. Remember that thou n agn: fe his work, which men bekold. Z Z 2 Every 355,
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