Chap. 3 6. 4n xpo f tiara ufran the Bokof J pr B. Verf. 26. Saints shall be. As the number of the years of God cannot atall be fearched our, fo he bath given man as to his future etiace a nunaberlefs number of years : And it were well if we who enjoy this life, and are dying every moment, would often confider there is a life coming which will never die, the number of our years also in that Cenfe cannot be fearched our. The thoughts ofeternity i hould fwallowup all our time ; yet alafs, how loth time,or the things which are but temporary,fwal- low up, in moli men, the thoughts of eternity! What -ever we do in time, fhould be to fit us for eternity ; yet aláCs, moli ufe their time fo, as if they did not believe, or at lean hoped, there would not be,any fuch thing as eternity. Did we but fpend twoor three minutes of time every day in the ferious remembrance ofour e- ternal eflare, it wcu;d be an effeetual means, tomake us both ho- ly in andcontented with what-ever temporal efface we meet with in this world. We fhould be earnefily fearching after God all our dares, did wl confider what it imports to us, that the nun'- ber ofhis 'ears cannot befearched out. Thus Ebhu labours to draw job to the confideration of God himfelf, who is the Author of thofe great providential werks, both of thole he had fpoken of before, the Works of providence, orderingmen here in civils, asallo of thole works of providence in natural things, of which he comes to treat largely, both in the latter part of this Chapter, and ita moil' of the next. Where we Chat! find Elihu giving us as it were a Sylieme, or bodyof natu- ral Philofophy in his dilcourfe about the wonderful) works of God, which he iscalling job to confider. J B, 353--
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