Chap. iz. An Expoftionupon the Book of JO B. Verf.7. fuch that the 1aí1 of it is glory : the longer you feed upon glory,, the fweeter it will be , the lift bit will be as fweer as the lira The Manna which came down fromheaven was loathedby the If- raelites. 73ut no Ifraelite(hall loath the Manna which he fendes in heaven : The laft ofglory will beglory ; the longer vv&eat , the more we (hall delight ; the more we talle thofe dainties , the more pleafant will they be to our,tafle. Taking the weird (Ha- kar) in that fenfe , it may be rendred , Canfi thou finde out the lalt ofgod? And fo it falls in with this, Canf thoufinde him out unto perfeftion ? 'Unto perfection.] Can!} thou come to the uttermofl: of what inventri poteft' God is ? or of what God doth ? Cana thou knowGod , as we Daisfed no fpeak (a capite ad calcem,) from head to foot , frombeginning ad plenum, to end , from frft to 'aft , withinand without ? Cann thou take Druf. in all the excellencies and dimenuons of God ? thou canft not do it, man, were thou more then a man ; hadft thou the underftand- ingofan Angel thou coutdit not doe it. How much foever thou art above man below God thou canfi not finde out God unto per- ration ; God only knows Godperfectly. Hence obferve, Though muchofGod may befoundout, yet all cannot : We can =' not finde him out unto perie lion. Finite cannot hold infinite. Some may conceit (but it is a meer conceit) that they can ; as a Country fellow thinks , if he were upon fuch a mountain which bounds the Horizon,he could touch Heaven, and take a Star in his hand; but when he comes thither,heaven is as far offas it was, and the Stars as much out of his reach, as they were, where he flood before : Such are the guelfes ofmen about God if they could at- tain fuch a point, and be refolved in fuch a doubt then) doubt leffe) they thould know all the myf}eries of the divine nature : but if they get thither ; they are as far from the perfeelion of God-as before : for how neer foever we come to God , there is an infinite diflance between us and God. Every beleever is neer God in afffEtion, yet is.he dill infinite removes fromhis perf- ¿lion, When wefeem to come neeref the perfections ofClod, Godgoes Cunt auefferis further offromas , andwe are as much tofeek cis ever. When holy Longues ab;rt e4uguftine walked by the lea fide, rapt in the meditationof God and of his wayes , he heard a voice which bad him lade the ocean with a cockle-Pell : we may fooner drain the ocean with fuch a little fhdl, or with a fpoon then the perfections of God with our 1 3 largefl
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=