Chap. 37. anExpoftion upon the fotkof Jo a. Verf. 539 children. Chrie faith of the latter day, of the day of Judimcnr, ( Math. 21.. 36. ) Of_that day and home k 4trethn, raaj, no not the Angels of Heaven,b et any Father only: and he reproved the cu.iofityof his Apoíiles immediately before his afccnfìon, for ,enquiring after that kind of knosledge ( t . 7. ) lr ts not foryou to know the timer or th(fcafons which the Father hath pant in.hie own,power. As it is net profitable, fo not lawful fo- u_t to look after the knowledge of thole things, which God hath lockt up and kept fecret. Let us take heed we be neither (of n I un- knowing in thofe things which ittss a (lime for us not to know, nor curioufly prying into the knowledge of chore things' which are refrained from our knowledge. But (to the prefent poynt) it. may be muchmatter ofhumiliation to us , that of thofe things which we have a liberty, and 'cis our duty to know, we know fo little. fobhad free liberty ro know, and fea:ch after the know-. ledge of thofethings about which Eliba put his queflions, the Meteors of the air, and the motionsof thole fuperiour bodye;yet Elihu knewhe could fay little in anfwer to thefe queflions, when he asked him, Theft thou know ? &c. And therefore his purpofe was tohumble lob, whilehe made him fee and know his own ig- nerance. And did the moll knowing man in the world know his own ignorance, that would ( I am Pure it might ) make him very humble, We are at to bevery proud of a very fmall portion of knowledge, a little puffs us trp; whereas the fence of our defe is in knowledgemay both make and keep us little iri our own eyes : We fhould be tharbfnll.for that'littlewhich we know , and humble becaufe we know fo little. Elihu having by the Q eflion now opened, convinced lob in in general that he knew but little of the works of God, proceeds in the chofe of this verfe, and furtherforwar&, to convincehim further of his defe6tivenefs in knowledge, by putting the fame queflion about many other particulars :; And the fire particular about which he puts the fame queflion,is the Light of the Cloud ; Doet thou knowwhen God difpofed them, and caufed the light of hie Cloud tofbine ? He queflions lob again about another poynt, the weighing the Clouds (y..s6. ) 'Theft there know the ballancing of the (.'loud:, the wonderfull wirks ofhim that is perfell in knowledge ? As if he Z z z 2 had
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