Chap,i2. 4n Expo;itionupon the boo!¿ of Job.Vcrf.22. S0 3. There is in a mac] a depth of Do&zinc or Opinion ; which is all() called the depth of Satan (Rev.2.24.) Asmany a; havenot known the depths of Satan : 'fhofè depths of Satan were the dark epinionr,audfal(e D&rineof Seducers : There called their o- pinions depths or p efundities : and the holy Ghoft addeth an Epithece..depths ofSatan. As if he had faíd,yaucall your opini- ons dcptlis,and fo they are,but they äre lí. ch depths as Satanbath b,ought out of flellithey are the whifperingsend !iifíirßw of that Serpent, not the inspirations of God. The Do&rice of Anti- clirift (that great Merchant of Error) is called a rny)lery of inigui- ty,(2 Thef.2.7.) A myllery is a truth (hut up,or lying in the deep; he deep and dark mr;fleries of the wicked, will God reveal, veri 8. For he difcovereth deep things out of darknefs. Dark_nefs may be taken two ways. There is natural darknets, which isonly the privationof natural light and there is a me- taphorical darknefs,which is the privation of moral light. This darknets is in many through their ignorance; and this da'eknefs is madeby other; through their knowledge. The infinite know- ledge of God makes a darknets to hide his ways and countels in, and fo loth theknowledge of men. They keep their projectsand pin-pares under the vails and vilors of fpecious pretences, and fludied fecrecies. Out of all this darknets Goddilcovers deep things. The latter chaufe of the verle is but an heightning of-this, He bzingeth out to light the fhadow of death. Shadow of death, is taken two ways. Fitt, For exfrcamdanger. Secondly, For extream darknets. For extream danger,Pfal.23 4. Though I rvalk through the val- leyof theShadow of death, thatis, in deadly danger,yet Iwillfear, no evil. But here,../hadow of death, is put for extreaar darknets the Crave is place of darknets, an3 things that are b,rried lie in the dal V. ( job 34.22. ) There is no da. knefsnot. Shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide th. ernfelves; that is, the workersof iniquity cannot be hid in the thickeft d'arknefy, The tlhadow of death is the hi ;heft, the molt fuperlative degree of thickeft darknef; : A4' iir Job had laid, God do i not only bring . eep things out of darknefd, but the deepefl things out of the K r 3 grcateft
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