3 zo Chap. 19. An.Expofition upon the Bookof J OB. Verf. 25. (after this body isconfirmedand eaten of wormes) to an eternal( happy life ; therefore I am not filch asyou judge me to be, neither wicked nor hypocrite. You account me ae reje(ledofÇod,yet I know that God if my Redeemer, I know that he livesfor ever, and that he is mine for ever, and therefore doe not think, becaufe !have no hope ofthis life, that therefore I defpaire oflife : doe not take upon you, thatyou only know thefe myfleries, and that I am ignorant of them, as myfriend Bildadconcluded in the 18 Chapter (this is theporti- onof the man that knower not Çod,) for even I alto know that my Redeemer liveth, andJhallflandupon the earthat the latter day. For .1 know. What this knowing is,hath been opened (Chap. 13.12.) upon thofe words,/ know that IJhall be juflified. In briefe,'cis knowing upon the greatest certaintie, knowing without all wavering; As if706 had Paid ; My judgement is fixed, and myfaith confirmed in this thing, it is as cleare to me, that my Redeemer liveth, as if I hadalreadyfeen him alive. It is asfore tome that I,/ball rife again as if1had been dead,and were already rifin. Myfaith makes this e s evident tome now, as myexperience hereafter /hall. Iknow. Verham Origi- This knowing came not in either by fenfe or any naturali ruleomnem au- demonftration ; Faith is the gift of God, and fo is the know- bit2tionem ex- ledge ofFaith, or that knowledge which is the full affurance` of notat mentu frnaant Faith. There is an exceeding greatneffe of thepower of God put adhæbonem dry forth to chofe ward who believe according to theworkingofhis migli vein facto fupet typower, which hewrought in Chrifl when he mired himfrom the aueexploratattt. dead( Eph. J 19 20. ) Faith is the evidence ofthingsnot feene ; who can make things not feene evident to us, but he who is every where evident, yet no where feene ? Faith is thefubflance ofthings hopedfor, as the Apoftlegives the definition ( Heb. I I. i. )Who can make things abfent from our enjoyment, prefent to our comfort, but he who is alwayes prefent ? Saints doe not fee what they beleeve, yet they know what they beleeve. When 7ofeph brought his twoSons, Manaf fes and Ephraim to his father °acobfor his bleffing, ?acob put hisright hand upon the younger, and his left hand upon the elder, 7ofepb obferving this, humbly correas his fathers error, 21tot fomyfather, this it the
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