ChaR. 36. e/ n R.ti'poyStip,n upon the Bookof o B. Verf.26. 373 ten thoufand times three hundredpounds is a htrae furn ; fo that here was agreat debt, now (faith the text) ¡hen the debtor had nothing to pay, he canoe to his Lord, or Creditor, andhe forgave hire all. He did not fay, wouldef} thou have me,'or can I, forgive fuch a debt as this ? What, ten thoufand talents ? He forgave it as if it had been adebt of two mites.Thus,and many other wayes we may improve this Rift Attribute of God, mentioned in the text, his greatnefs, bothas to our direóïion induty, and confolati- tion in every extreatnity. Beheld God is great , And yroe.kxow hies not. That's the fecond thing. The words are plain,,but the tenfe is difficult ; for it may be objeEted, Do not we knowGod ? E'lïh:e faid but jufi now, in the very verfebeforethe text, Magnifie his works which men behold, every man may fee it, man may behold it afar of ? Surely if the works of God may be known and feen by every one, God hirnfelf may be known, for he is known in his works, as the Apofileargues (.Rom, s. 20.) The things which he hat, mademake him known : how is this then faid, That God if great-send we knowhim not ? Doth not the Prophet in denQun- cingthat dreadful curie ( Ter. ro. is,) Poure out thy wrath up- on the hewben that know thee not, thereby intimate, that all the people of God know him ? Darla. not Chrifi tell us (John 17 .3.) This is eternal life, to know thee the onely true Gad. They who haveeternal life, mufl have the knowledge of the trueGod. But all true believers have eternal life already inhope, and (hall have it (portly in hand, therefore they knowGad. The Promife of the New Covenant is ( Nob. t t .) They fiou l all knowme from the leaji to thegeeatef ; that is, all my Covenant people shall know me. How is it then faid, God is great, and we (anew him not ? When Paulwasat Athens, he found an Altar with that In:cripti- on, To the unknown God (/.X1.17,2 3.) They worfhipped a God whom they knew not,but certainlywe mull know whom wewor- ship. reworshipye know not what, was Chrifi's reproof of the Samaritans ( John 4.2 2. ) i4 e k iow what we warfhip ; that ice whore we worship. For anfwer to this, when the text faith; God is great andwe know him not ; wemay fay, Firs}, 'That even heathens, the un- taught, untutored, and uncatechixed heathens do, or, may know Cc:di;
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