Verf. 5, 24 Chap. 42. An Expofition upon the Bookof J o s, which he had from the prefent appearance of God to him for his inftruótion and humiliation; I bave heard of thee by the bearingof the ear, but now mine eyeteeth thee. As if he had Paid, Lord,here- tofore 1beard of thee, for 1 was religioajly brought up; I bad Pa- rents andAnceflors, whodeclared tome who the Lord was ; and I beard many things of thee, which took imprefion upon my heart heretofore: but 1 never bad fach an imprefon as in this tempeft, I never heard god fpeaking thus immediately to me ; nor didhe ever give me any [tech vifible demonflration of his prefence, as he bath vouchfafed meat this time, /peaking out of the whirlwind. And from all we may conclude, that as fob had a powerful illumina.. tion of the Spirir,foan outward apparitionof the Glory and Ma- jefly of God, or of Godsglorious Majefly to convince and hum- ble him. So that, though fob had a Paving knowledge of God for- merly, yet this difcourfe of God with him, and difcovery of God to him, had made him a better Scholar than all his earthly teachers. I have beardof thee by the bearing of the ear, But nowmine eye feeth thee. That is, now I have asclear a fight or knowledgeof thymind andwill, of thy juflice and goodnefs, of thy power and love- raignty, as if I had feen thee with mine eyes, and had feen or looked into thy heart. Or thus: Not only haft thou gracioufly inflru}ed me, by fpeaking fo much to me, but thou haft mani- fefted thy fell prefent with me, by anafpetable fign, Mine eye bathfeen thee; that is, thou hall given me to fee that which af- fures me thou art neer unto me, namely, the Cloud,out of which thou haft been pleafed to fpeak and makeknown thy mind to me, who am but duff and afhes. The Lord may be feen there four wayes ; Fitt, In his Word. Secondly, In his wo: ks. Thirdly, In out- ward apparitions. Fourthly, And above all, God is feen inhis Son, our Lord JellsChrifl, whom the Apofilecalls (Heb, i.3,) The brightnefs of hie glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon ; and in whofe face the light of the knowledge of God fhineth (2Cor. 4. 6.) And hence Chrill faith (fobn 14. 9.) He that bathfeen me, bath feen the father. The invifible father is feen in his Son, who was made vifible in our flefh, fobn t. E. Thus God may be feen. But in his nature God is altogether invifible, he
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