4a6 Verf. 29. an i:xpoption upon the Book of 3' o s. Chap. 36, fpiritual under(landing, whereby he is able to make a rishc judg- ment ofall things necefiary to hisown edification and falvacion, Again ; If the natural things which Godbath made (thefpreading of the Clouds ) exceed our underftanding, then how much more doth God himfe, fwho made them ! Who can underhand the fpreadings of God ? the immen ity of Cod ? the eternity, theomnipotency, the infinity of God ? I hat's the thing Elihu chiefly aimes at in all this difcourfe. While he pofeth fob, and all men, in the natural works of God, he would convince fob, and all men, that neither he was, nor any man is able to comprehend the equity and tighteoufneCs of his proceed- ing in the darkerwayes of Providence. And this he did, becaufe fob had too often (upon the matter) called God to anfwer, ask- ing why it was fo ? in[lead of a filent fubmillïon towhat he did not underfland,nor could fee the reafon of. Further, confider this particular in nature, The fpreading of the Clouds. We fee the Clouds every day, and we fee their fpreadings, that's common and obvious to the eye ; yet ( faith Rlihu) who can underfl'and thefe fpreadings ? There is agreat- er latitude in the Clouds thanwe imagine ; and if we cannot ful- ly underfand the things which we fee, how can we underhand what we fee not ? Who apprehends the true greatnefs of the Clouds, the greatnefs of the Moon, the greatnefs of the Stars, the greatnefs of the Sun ; all which our eyes behold ? Wecan neither underhand by our eye, nor by the rules and reports of the greatefl Aflronomers, the true magnitude or greatnefs of chofe heavenly vifible bodies; who thencan take the true dimen lion (if I may fo (peak) of things invifble ? Whocan underftand the fpread- ing o f theChods? Or the noife (or notfes) ofhis Taberuacle, iniPtlrl The word notes adreadful not"e, a noife with a tumult, fuch a a . tKttJfouWt, noife as is made when ruine and defolation comethupon a place, perfirepait,de, fuch a noife as the Prophet defcribeth in a time of war. Moab tamultxhell (hall die with a tumult (Atmos a. 2.) Who canstnderftand the lunttttus beyict Kab. Shelo, noife of his tabernacle This noife maybe expounded two wayes ; Firfl,
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