2°6 Chap. g 2. An Expoflien upon the Bookof JOB. Verf.7. him : And therefore though the wifdomof Cod be higher then hea- ven,deeper then hell,broader then the fea, and longer then the Earth, though there is awifdom cfCod, andmuch in all ho wifdom,which no creature can comprehend, yet his wifdem receives teftimonyfrom everycreature, and we need not m4ke filch weary -and long journies tofindout femuch ofit as concerns our inftret6l ion andfattsfaelion. Ask,now the beafis, and they(hall teach thee. Hence Obferve, ill creatures have a teaching voice , they read oes divinity leFlures of DivineProvidence. Chriftians, who have not only reafon but grace , may learn from creatures which have not fcohmuch as life or fence. Images ,N'on e f a ' ' made by man are teachers oflies, ut the things which God bath ar;ím..a,cu: m tom exiguum in madeare teachers oftruth. And hence it is that Chaift hirpfeif quo n n 014 taketh up parables from the meaneft of thecreatures to infix-Lift difcerep,frmu bis hearers. I confefs there is no knowledge like the knowledge quam :n amni- ofChrift, and ofhim crucified : The crois of Chrift is the chief its fculrtiti4. {ub e&ofboly Rudy As the A oftles refolve allures r Cor.z.) pifu aut furs l Y Y P ( jimkiachiù. I determined to know nothing amongyou but Chrift i- andhimcruci- ;Lavar. fled. All knowledge without the knowledgeof Chrift is but ig- norance Yet there is a ufefulnefs of knowledge from natural things,as fubferiient unto fpiritual.Grace in the heart of abelie- ver improves commonearthly objects toholy ends , as having, a Se,utum e11 Ramp of heavenupon them. The world below is as aglafs wherein j ,ru ura,, we may f e the worldabove. They who cannotread other books -may run and read this: It is thePlowmansAlphabet,the Shepherds Kalender, the Travellers Prefpef-tive, throughwhich he receives SpQr the lively fices of infiniteexcellencies in God. We may meditate from the fun to the Bone , from the cedar to the hyfop-that groweth on the wall, from the Angel to the worm that creepeth on theground, from all, from the leaft of thefe we may know much of the great God, & it is the {cope:of the Apoftle (Rom. a.) to convince thole who do not. It is reported of one who had but little or no knowledgeat all in.arts and fciences, or skill in tongues, andyet was full ofknowledge in heavenly things, that being asked, how he came by that knowledge,-havingnot read books, He faid he had a book which he read continually, which had three great leaves, the Heaven, the Earth, the Waters; the creatures contained in thefe, were as fo many letters , out of which he fpelled many myfteries,&clinfortable truths. Though the
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