'Soo Chap. 42. vein Expojition upon the Book,of J o B. Verf. 2. brevia- word fignifes both wifdomand thought, and well it may ; for un- vit,abrupit, lets we have wife thoughts in our felves, we can never (hew decerpft,pro- wifdom, either in our words or a&ions towards others. There priè uvas ry is a difference ainonga Interpreters, whole thought we are here fruElus vinde -ob faith, No thou htcan be with holden from ruavir.Hinc to under Rand, wheñ g Î Bozra metro- thee. potà Idumeæ, Fir((, Many very worthy and learned men, are of opinion, cumvinetis. that by thought, we are to enderftand the thought of God, Gods own thought and fo thefe words are but the carrying on of the e fuit re- lebris nomen fame thing, or a further explication what was Paid before, Iknow fortita oft) Ifa. that thou canfl do every thong; that is,whatfoever is in thy thought 63 I or in thy heart to do, no power in the world can with-hold thee quad cogirnr, from doing it; no thought, that is, not any one of thy thoughts, can quad nonpws j ve1H fftcere, be with-holden from thee,that is, from thy fulfilling it, or ringing quid enim to it to pafs:what thou hail in thy mind, thou wilt perform with thy probibebit, aut hand: If thou hail but a thought to do fuck a thing,thou cant+ not impediet, be hindered of thy thought, it (hall be done. NeedThe words hold outavery glorious truth concerningGod, if Neeoverate pop cì cogita- we take thought in this fente ; and as it is a great truth in it fell, tione, fc. per- fo it is a very ufeful one to us. inrda.Jun. Et quòd nor The Obfervation is this; vindemiabitur what foever God bath a thought to do, be will do it, he cannot be àtecogitatio, hindered in theefei of a thought. i e.rei cogito. epropo- As none of Gods thoughts are vain, fo none of them are in ffegio- vain or ineffe&ual, they all reach their end (Ifa. 43. 1 3.) 'will nom,Pitc, work and who 'hall lett of 3 God will work if he bath but a thought to work;and if all thePowers in the world let themfelves againft him, they flail not be able to difappoint any one of his thoughts (Prtv. í9.z1.) There are manydevices in 4 mansheart, yet the cotnfcl of the Lord (hall Rand ; that is, there are many thoughts in mans heart oppofite to the counfel and thought of God. Men think this and thar,they makeupmany things in their thoughts, yet can make nothing of them, becaufe againft the thoughts of God ; for allthe devices that are in mans heart, can not hinder the effe& of Gods counfel, his counfel (hall (land fait and firm, without any bowing, without any bending, while their devices fall and are utterly broken. The conciufion of wife Soy lamonis(Prov. sir. 3o.) There is no wifdons, nor underftandi0g
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