( (lap. 37. InExpofìtion upon the , 'ook of Je B. Verf. 19. eye cannot pierce into, that he might keep us kw and little in our own' eyes. As there is enough in the Word, which "."e fi,': - pl ll mayunder(Luid and.fpeok of to :alvarir n, fo the e ai forge things there to pole, the wilet+, and hold them in-a filent adze-ira- tion. The ApotËle Peer (z.,E;p 3, a 6 ) (peaking about the Epifiles of 'Pawl, faith, In thaw there are fonae t6 na hard' to be - underflood : He doch not fay, ail things in the Epi[lles o_'TaW are hard tobeunderfiood,, butforn'e thingsare, and they are fo for our exercife and,tryal. - Asthofe things ace altogether fecrets to us, vhich- God bath not revealed, fo ferne things are in 'a great degree fec:ets to 'us, though God hath revealed them ; and if fo, 'Den, Fill, Let us believe when we cannot underfl.srd. Faith bath a knoNledge about all general Principles ; yet he that bath no more Faith in Coale fpecial Scripture Principles and Myl eries than he bath knowledge, will have but little Faith in then. Ti.ough we mufti; have a knowledge about every thing we believe, yet we may be muchmore in believing many things, than we are in knowing them ; we may have much Faith in that, of which we havebut little knowledge. As Faith is the evidence of thofe . things which cannon be teen at all by the eye of fence, fo it is the evidence of female things to us, which are very little teen by the eye of the underfl:anding. Toe bleffed Virgin laid, How !hag this be ? When fhewas told the fhould have a Son, (he couldnot underfiánd the thing,there wasa darknefs in ir, yet file believed it. Secondly, Whenwe find darknefa in the Works or Truths of God, which are the Obje& of our Faith, Let us adore what we cannot fee, and admire.w here we cannot apprehend. Thirdly, Whe,"Aswe find darkrefs inany of the works of God, Let us be lure to forbear to censure or quellion thole works. 1-low vain a thing is it to judg, when we do not underfland, or to fay that is not done well, which we know not how it is done I Doubt- lefs, We cannot 'order oar fpeech ( about Inch things ) before God, by reafon ofdarkioefs ; and therefore we ,tremble to fpeak ra(hly or hardlyof them, Elihuheightens the poynt yet further. in the next words. F f f f2 Verf, 587
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