Chap. 37. an EA-rift ion tapan the Bookof J O B. Verf. f 4. 5 3 3 no nor fo much as rationally, risnota glance of the eye, but the fludy of the n'tin :'which is required in feting the worksof God. And hence it is that though thereare flore of fpec`ìators and talk- ers of the works of God, yet there are few confiderers of them. Every one almoPt will be fpeaking of the great things which God Both, faying, What doyou hear ? or do you cot hear what is done, what is come to paffe ? but where is the confderation of what is done, or of what' bath paftfed ? who tiayeth his thought§, andbreathes wifely upon the worksof God ? They are wife in- deed who do fo, as David concluded,after along and roof} ex- cellent difcourfe of the works of God, ( Pied. 107. 43. ) Who is wifeAnd will obferve thefe things (as if he had faid, None but the wife will not can obferve them) even they Jill sender/land the loving l indnefo of the Lord. Thirdly , What are thofe works which Elihu here calls the wonderful) works of God ? Surely thofe defcribed bothis the foregoing and fubfequent part of this Chapter are ( which are no.- prodigies in Nature) the Winds, Rain, Prot, Snow, Thunder and Lightning : Thefe are the matter of his difcourfe,and of chefs he faith Confider the wonderful) work] of God, Hence obferve The common , conflant, and ordinary works of God, Orefait of wonders. Though we rightly difiinguifh the works' of God (as was touched before) into ordinary and extraordinary, common and wonderful', yet did we fully underfland them, there is a kind of wonder andmiraculoufnefs in all the works of God , even in his moll common, ordinary, or every dayes v o;ks. What is more ordinary and "common than thegeneration and formation of mar, Tet (faith TDavid, Pial. t 39. 15.) [mill praije thee ; for I6m fearfully and wonderfully made ; marveil5U5 are thy workr,rind that myfoul knoweth right well. And the reafon why we do nor look out the wonders o; that andof many other commonworks of God, is,becaufe they areTo common. The veryfalling of the Rain bath a wonder in ir, the'blowing of the Windhath a wonder in it, the motion of theClouds bath a wonder in ir, the growing of every fpire of grafsout of the earth batha Wonder it ir, the budding out of every 'Leaf and blcf iii on the tree bath awonder in it; yetbe' caufe
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