41. - "Clap. 5. An Expof tion upon the Book of J O B, VerC 9 . 211 Again, Marvels are taken fometimes for Miracles, which are meanly and purely fupernatural. For in ordinary acceptation of the word, a Marvel is only the heightning and fublimating of nature, or aEting in the highest Spheare of nature ; but a Mira- deis a crofl'ing or a contradiaing of nature. A work altoge- ther above, yea against nature. Nowwe are not to take mar- vels here in that ftriát Cede, for Miracles; for the great works of God are call'd marvel; or wonders which yet are but either the ordinary conftitutions of Nature, or the extraordinary motions of nature, as Pfal. 136. 4., Qgive thank: to the Lord, to him, who alone dothgreat wonders : "What are there? In the 5, 6, and 7. verses, inttances are given in natural things, as making the hea- * lirábilior yens and firetching out the earth above the waters. The making ell g,,nt in of thole great lights the Sun and Moon. * One of the Ancients rerra uadupli- difcourting upon that Miracle in theGofpel, The multiplying the catio, quoin si. loaves, obferveth, that in natural things there are very great won- `a qu'r'q`'ePl- ders, though we lightly pats them by They were aftonithed to nu" °is"a' 7",fl. aq, in fee the loaves multiplying, while they were easing : to fee bread goban, tic_ grow upon the Table or between their Teeth made all wonder : quid mirat,iti but there is as great a miracle wrought every year, and no man ht in monde, takes notice of it : That is, when Corn cati into the ground, ' minus multiplies thirty, fixty, a hundred fold, It is (faith he) a Brea- hic mundu,, ter Miracle for Corn to multiply in the earth, then for loaves to $ a%uru it;:gr multiply on the Table. And he makes a like Conclufion in his r/sracula vi/i- Bookof the City ofGod, Whatfoever is wonderful in the world, is not b'kum natura- fo great a wonder, ac the world; Yet men rarely wonder at the dendi g y a tduitate wi making of the world, the Earth, the Heavens, the Sea, the Air, lercum, rumen every creature in them exceed in wonders, the things we wonder cumeatapien. at. Ordinary works of Nature are marvellous. First becaufe ter'ntues,ur,in they proceed from a divine power. 2 Becaureman is E tl, to r ifq; nia- give a reafon of molt of them, Canff thou tell how the bonesgrow jorafunt.Aug. to her that is with child? faith the Preacher. The bringingof 1. ç. de (.iv, an Infant alive from the Womb is a wonder, as well as the railing Dei, cap. rz, of a man from the dead. And the budding of a Tree, as well as ' Permaha the budding of Aron: Rod* The ufualnefs of the one, and the IT non f 1e. rarenefs of the otleeris,though not the onely, yet thegreatefi dif- mu,, tropeerea ference. And as the ordinary works of Creation, in making, fo of quod vulgo Providence, in governing the world, are full of wandets, though quotidieq! front they pafs unobferved, Such Eliphaz takes notice of, in the words Ke novt a F.a following, The difnppointing of crafty oppreffors and the deli- :u ram. . K k 2 ve'ance
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