Chap. 36. d/fn E.tpofitifln upon the Book of je B. Verf. 33, 427 Hence Note ; Brute Creatures, wy, a natural inflinb, perceive the approach- tig changesofthe"weather. And why huh 6oci given them that natural inflin ? Why are they quick-fented and quick- Gghted,yea many times more quick- fighted than men are ? Surely, -ir is firti, that thofe poor Crea- tures may provide themfelves of fhelter, and not be abroad in the Roca, rain or wind,.in a time of danger, or inconvenient to them. This may be of tile tous. God would teach us by the ve- ry dumb Creatures, the Bruits, what our duty is ; the Cattel, the Seine, the Sheepwill witnefs agáinfcus, if we donot take notice of, nor obferve, the Ggns of thevarious difpenfarions of God, or when he is about to vary his difpenrations. Can the Cattel tell when it will be fowl weat her, and are men fo flupid ( are they é fpecially that profefs the Gorpel fo flupid ) that they underffand noneof theft ? The Prophzr Jeremiah (Chap. S. 7.) rc= proves thepeople of Ifrael upon this account,by the Fowles of hod*, ven (as was (hewed upon another occation, at the i irh Verne o? the 35thChapter) The Sforkin the heavens k=srweth sàs appointed time, and theTurtle,and theCrane, ate' theSwallow know the t met oftheir coming ; that is, they will not flay in any place, where it is not fit nor Cafe for them to flay, and they will notcome to any place till they know all things are fuitable and ready for them r But my people knoweth not the judgment of their Clod, they are more fenfelefs than the very fowls of heaven in this. And therefore the prophet checks them (v..8.) Hózn doye fay, we are voile, and1he Law of the :Lord is with tee? You count your felves very wife, yet ye are not fo wife in this matter as theStork and the Crane, and the Swallow, for they obferve their times, but you donor. Ir isa great part of our witdom to fee, what God is doing, or what he is about to do before he cloth it. Ir is faid (1Prov. aá. 3.' )'--A prudent manfi efeeth anevil, When evil is come every one can fee it ( though fo,iie will fcarce fee it then, as the P ophet complained (ifa. 26, ti .) when thy hand is lifted up,tbey will not fee it) but ufuali that v, ch is done or doing we can fee;when tee feel an evil we can fee it ;bur the prùdenr, t-har is the godly man,fore-feerh the evil.How codeshe to fore-fee ìt? not by any hellifl, divina ion, notby flat-s; zing, nor. by asking the D_vil what (hall be hereafter,as Saul díd ; he would fore-fee the evil, Iii but
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