34 Verf. t 4 . 1Án Evfofstion upoxthe Boob of, J o B. Chap. 37. caufe there things are common, we do not think nor call them wonderful!. Everyone would think i a .yonder to fee a dry rod, a rod cut off trorn the tree,bloifota,ss Aaron, did (11Tnm6, 7.8.) but who thinks it a wonde-,to fee a tree well rooted in the earth, blofforn eve- Sp,ing,?yet there is wonder, a wonderful' work of Atgnitudine God in that al;o. A Heathen Phiioropher could fay from his on rrr"x'a confine- ob"erva ion of things and pc-Ions, takes away adm:rcci tudtlàb:tucrtz on, Such is the geriu> or ipi it of mankind that we never admire soft, f,,,ta what we often fee or meet with, though in ir felf is be never fo utnos,duottdt admi :able. Who admi. es the motion of theSun every day ? yet au atia+ <ad- the Suns mo i ;n everyday is asmiraculous and fiurendinus, a, its mrraui"8 din' handing 11í11 was in that day ofJojlaues battel with the Kings or nant, Tea ¡a ant. sen: I, a as its tet- ogrademotion-or going back was in that day or King Nat: quo.t; Fdez,ekran s recovery from a mortal direare. That fuch a Vat/ body c.11. as the Sun, thould take and fulfill fuch a jcurney,fhould pas fuch an unconceivable (pace in twenty-four houres, is an amazingwon- sot fpe£Ìato- der, yet no man wonders at ir. It bath been laid, The Sun and re:f', ;lift run Moon have hardly any beholders ( they can fcarcely get a Iook defi,ir,ron ha- from us) unle s when.Ecl ed and th-n all'unen handLazing and bet ;Items ob. ) f DÌ fervlì lunám, wondering at them , every one will be looking :towards them ni{ì Warm- with hands lifted up,& táy,Ofirange : yet the Eclipfes of the Sun tem. & Moon are far ealier to theconceptions of R -afon, than the mo- tion ofthe Sun and Moon is, .confidering the vafi courfe they.run, and performe every day. We admire things ou- of core, or when their courfe is diffut bed, yet thecon'.}ant courfe of things is much more admirable; every time the Sun rifeth, every time therain falleth, every time the wind bloweth, every time the tyde turneth, we havea wonderful! work of God vrefenred to our contemplation. Though Afironernersand Philofophers have fpoken muchof the reafon or caufe of there things, yet they can- not reach the bottom Of them. The Stoic/a! differ from the pe- riyatetick,r,each hiving probable and plau(ìblea-guments for theirr opinion about natural! Things; yet nine of them hit the matter fully, becaufethere is a yvonderfulnefs in them which God is pleated to hide from man, asalfobécaufe they were not at all guided by a divine Light in the ditquifition of them, but meetly by humane reafon and naturallutnderfianding. Let this be rernember'd,Theo dinary works of God have won- ders in them. I Chat' conclude this poynt with paralelling the extraor-
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