618 veil.. 2 3, anEvpofition %Ion the Book of j o s. Chap. 37 in htmfelf,then be not fomuch as dí/contented with hisworkf.You are not yet come to the bottom, you have not feen the fail man born (as we fay) you knownot what God will make of ir, till hebath done all ; therefore take heed of mutmurin. and difcontent, (Zech. a.i 3.) Befilent,0 allfief?", before theeon', for he is rifete out of his holy habitation. Though his riling be vifible, yet we can- not lee all the concernments and intendments of his riling ; there- fore be filent altogether from fear and difcontents, and though not from all enqui ies about it yet from a prefumption of finding out all by en-T:6es : For, ;Is touching the Almighty, we can- not fii,d him out, That's th:fir fie He is ex-talent in pmer. Toat's the fecond. Mr. Broughton reads, He is hugeoffirength.. The word rendred excellent,properly Ggnifies, to evcreafe. There encreafe of the firength of God ; what he is, heever was, and.everwill be ; there is neither encreafe nor din;finution of his flrength. But becaufe things which are aiwayes encreafing grow to a huge bignefs and firength, therefore he is laid to encreafe in firength or (as cur tranflation imports) to 'twee/7'11'1;024,er. He that excels in power is excellent in power. The word rendred power, implieth the power of doing (the Greeks call it j14,41tc) Or, of aaiwity, a power put forth in working ; he-is excellent in power, that is, in ability todo whatfoeverhe pleafeth ; and when cis laid heis excellent in power, in this kind ofpower, itnotes,that the power ofGod in doing, doth wonderfully excel.all char ever Ej'44 tirtm he bath done. Theetfeds or at-ts of the power of God are ne, in infinitun thitnas I may fay,rot he faculty of hisPower;he can do more than ad t s bath done a He is fo far from havingover-acied himfelf, I mean Avin. from having done more than he cando again ( which harh been the cafe of many mighty men, and may be the cafe of any man, how mighty a doer fever he is ) that he can do infinitely more than he bath done, if hehimfd pleafeth ; he is excellent in, pow- er, or of excelling power. I have (is was lately faid) opened this point-, of the power of God, in other places of this Book,. whither i refer the Reader ; yet taking thepower of God ( as the word is properly here intended) for his working -power, Nere;
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