312 Chap..I a . An Expo f tion upon the nokofjob. V :r[22. other. As the Scripture it felh i, not the interpretation of mans mind,íb neither is any true interpretationof Scripture from the rneer mind of man. The fpirit of God (inman ) (earcheth all things, even the deep things of God, s Cor.2, r o. And u irhout cue fpiric,man cannot find any thing of God, nonot that wi.ticfi ly- eth uppci moft ormoil in light. Again,He re,, ealeth the deep things which h,inifelf cloth. Sure- ly the Lordwill do nothing but he revealeth h.i, fecret unto hisfervants the Prophets ( Amos 3. 7. ) The fcc et inteuoed by the Prophet, was the decree and purpole ofGod tobring evil upon that Land, to take away thevoyce of mirth and gladneff, and tomake them an aftonifhment, an huffing, and a perprrual defolation. The fe- cret of fuchdecrees God reveals to his Prophets, that theymay warn thepeople, either toprevent or prepare for the 'evil which is to come. When God was about to deftro4 Sodom, he Nth, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do ? Gen. r8, i7. God revealed the rilingand fall or the Kingdoms ot tnis world, the riling and fall of the Kingdom of Anricnrif!, the makingof theKingdoms ofthis world,the Kingdoms of the Lord andofhis Chrift, all there the Lord revealedby the tpiriz unto the A noftle John, by him colle&ed into that book cared The Revelation. In the eighth of Daniel (verf t3.) Chriff is filed Palnoni,which we tranflace, acertain Saint, but in'tie Ma-gents of . yirBibles we !Zì occulta LIZ put The Nurnberer of fecrets, or, a wonderful Numberer. Chrift numerato ha- is the Numberer o bet. Jun. f fecrets, he tells them oar:, and hug them all (as we fay) at his fingers ends,hecan give an accoult of them at an inflant, both how many they are,and what they mean. When Nebuchadnezzardefired to hear the interpretation of his dream, Daniel afcribesall toGod, He reveal. h thedeep and (ecru thins, he knoweth what is the darknefs, and the light dtvelleth withhint, Dan.2.2 2. Befides chete deep and dark things which concern future e- verits,the Lord revealeth allo thedeep things of Do &r ine,the Iu- pernatural mytleries of Religion : The Incarnation of Ois S m, the Relurré&ion of the body,the myftery of juffifyingFa th,and of the new birth,which are abfurdities to nature; thete are all re- vealed in the word of God to our ears,and by the Spirit of G xd to our hearts. Secondly, As the Lord revealeth the deep things whichhim- fail cloth or fpeakech, fo alto the deep things of mans doingor fpcaking,
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