Chap. 9. An Expofition upon the Book,of J OB. Verf. i r to, and fee the Father through theSon. And how neer foever we are to any objed,we cannot fee it without an eye. We are natural- ly blind, the eyes ofour mind mull be enlightned before we fee Chriti cleareth our underliandings and cures our blindnefs, He is made to us ofGod wifdom( to fee our needof him to be made) righteoufnefs to its, andfanciifieation and redemption, ICor. I.3á, Again, The medium mutt be light ;.if the eye be clear, yet while the air is dark we cannot fee. There mutt be an Outward light, as well asan inward light to fee by that Jefus Chriti makes alfb;for. He is the light ofthe world, as well as the enlightner ofevery one that cometh into the world. He fends the means of knowledge, as well as gives an ability to know. He fends light to the eyesof our . mind, and he is light in the eyes of our mind, What we ought toknow comes from him, and how to know as we ought comes from him. Without him, God goeth by us in the Gofpel, and we fee him not, he may pafs onforever, and we never, perceive. hire. Secondly, Obferve, That as the. Lord in his nature cannot beteen.- at all :So (fuch is the ieeaknefs ofman, that) wecannot fee himfatly . inhie word, or works.. How little is it that we fee, that we know of God in either ? What admirable operations are there in the course of natural!, things, in the Sun, Moon, and liars, in the growth of herbs and: plants, and in our own bodics,which we fee not ? What admira- ble adminillrations.are there in the courfe of civil things ? The beginnings, growths and declinings of Common-wealths, the tranfplantations of people from Countrey to Countrey, their, opprefitons by injullice, their confufions by War, their eliablifh- ments by peace, their,confumptions by plague and famine, their. cncreafe by health and abundance'areliittle mindedby themolt of. men. How doth God turn Nations up-fide - down,and hurl King- doms together, and we perceive him not. Some take no notice at all of God, as doing fuch things, none taking fuch notice as they. ought. We obferve creatures, what this man did, and what.the other, fuch men were malicious andunfaithfull,fuch were valiant and wife, fu.ch were felf-feekers, fuch felf- deniers,. fuch confiant, Patriots, and loch were apofiates. Thus we fee men, but we fel- -dom fee God in the great tranfaaions and motions ofKingdoms. And we fee him leali ofall in the courfc of fpirituall things, in his workingupon our hearts; God works , wonders in us, and we pap- ceive
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