2!S Chap. 9. An Expofition upon the Bookof 1 OB. VerCrr. And fo the whole is a confirmation and proofof general' af- fertion, that the Lord is infinite in power and wifdom, and that man is an ignorant narrow-roonfd and narrow- hearted weak creature compared unto him. We may form up the Argument Si good doca- thus : mentr:m paten- Heir weakand ignorant ineomparifon ofGod, who cannot tíetfapien- fee or comprehend where Godis, or what GodBoth. :to luxmica But man is not able tocomprehend,orfeewhere God it-, or Delis ob ocular what Goddoth, tnco:,nonCum Therefore man it sneak and ignorant in ccmparifon of i+ pi id per- vefligoro pof- God. fum,odeoin_ The ground is this, He that cannot comprehend or fee !what a- ferutabiliefunt nother doth is not able to hinder or match him in what he Both Jun.iaejas. But fuch is the hate and condition ofman, he is fo far from being Tranfeundi et able to equal! God in dignity,or hinder what hedoth,that he can- tranfineandi not find out or knowwhat God Both. verbis concin- Yet this is not to be takenhriftly, as if man did notat all per- rèftgnfitat ea ceive or underhand what Goddoth. Job in the former context documents fa. gave us a large of the works of God, what wonders he pienti qus $ g Deus exbibet, had done. The Saints find out Come of Gods doings in the guilt Prx- world, though the blind world fee not any thinghe doth. Buthe fens pr`_ fpeaks comparatively; be Lordpaffeth on, andweperceiveát not fences erudiret. that is, it is little ofGod that we perceive ; it is littleofthe workingsof God that we fee at thebelt. There are many perlons who doe not fee him at all, and many works that are not feen at 7talf7gnificat, all by any perfon.And they,the eyes of whole underftandingsart ex operibus anointed to fee molt clearly, are not able to fee all that God doth. o- None can fee all, Come will not fee what they may Ifa.ab. r o. timum quodq; Y y f ut parfl.ab Lord, when thy handH liftedup, they will not fee it and in the for- homiarbuseu mer verle, In the land ofuprightneft,will he deal unjuftly, and wit peneli.Pined. not behold the Majefty of the Lord. That which good men fee is but little, and evil men fee nothing. So that,as the Lord goeth al- together invifibly in his eflënce, fomohly in hisaf,{ions; man fees but few things ofthe many, and littleof the great things which Nero potefl God doth. hire an Deum I meet witha rots ex ofitionofthis text given by ComePa ifts. hsbn No man ( faith one of them) can know whether Goddwell or abide bitantemet in fe nwentem, in him or no. And Bellarmine in his 5th book, and 5sb Chapter Jacob. Jan concerning juftificatiouciteth it toprove, That a believer cannot fon. in to , now that he itjuffified, but »tuft believe blindfold or take the work
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