Chap. 36. an Expe/tiots r isan the rookofj n B. Verf. 26. 3377 g-earnefs of God in all there is greater than our narrow hearts can comprehend. Behold, God isgreat, and we know hire not, Neither can the number of his years be fearchdout, The Text is,Nurn er ofhis years, nofearch ; that is,as we well riumerwanre- tranl1ate it , the numberofhisyears is foci6 as cannot befearched rum eito , et we fay, Parched out ; it is but one wo; d in the Hebrew , properly rya o, nvc- fignifying, toParch a thing to the bottome,that we may find out the uttnoff of ir. The number of Gads yearscannot thaws be fearched out, we cannot find them to the bottome. Elihu (perks of Cod after the manner ofmen ; years properly belong toman, and the things . here below of this world : the life of man, and the continuance of the creature, are meafured by houres, and dayes, and weeks, and months, and years, as there are meafured by the motion of the Heavens. But God is far above any fuch rule or meafure of life, or of his being, all there rneafures are improper unto God ; there's no meafuting him by houres, dayes, weeks, months or years, or ages. The word which we tranflare years, fignifieth changes, Years are changed or returned; there is a returne of the fame time every year, Spring andSummer,' and A ICumn and AnurruapitdHe, Winter ; thus the year changeth, and turnes about continually. breos (, .ltz, ) God is infinitely above all there changes and turnings of time exfuaproprie- ( Pfal, i oz. 2g, 26, 2y.) Theheavens wax old, and as avefíure tote et Etyro. thou(hale change them, and they flailbe changed, but thou art the logic nemtn bat a mutts fame, and thyyearsfayle net. The years of God are not like the eionesE, qua(rir. years of the world, which wear it our, and change it as a vertu -e, caturvtutatooi is chanted by time; theLord is for ever the fame. Thus one of rrs. Ab Nacra- the Ancients glofiech chorewords of the Pfalme, Thy years fayle df`u ttur`S not t Thy years (faith he) neither go nor come ;thy yearsftandall C}`Jü1, r11111 togetbér, for becwife theyRand, they that go are not excluded by tnurontur ve them that come ; thyyears are one day , and thy day is- not_day by tzrsfruttu inne- day, but to day; thy to day doth netgive place to to-morrow, roar doth ianutr ; et it Precut to yeferday ; thy to dayes eternity, therefore thou hascb rru. >zrt urea, quoci ve!lírï begot thy co-eternal, to whom thou (aide ,Ft , to day have l beotten(a;Ze,r.,, thee. So then this expref'fion, Neither can the number of his years befearched erst, is according to our apprehenfion and untierffand- ing, a defcription not only,of very old age , but of eternity. We would think that triarivèty old, the houres, yea the minutes of A;rua'n''s whole life could nor be fearched out by a good Arethmetician, V.2gt" Io-'' C c c nuch
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