Chap. 212 As Expofrtion aloe the Bookof J o B. Verf. 27. 7$3 B, Chap. 25. Vert-. 27, 28, 29. Behold, 1 knowyour thoughts, and the devices whichye wrongfully imagine agatnft me. Foryefay,Where is thehoxfe ofthe Prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked ,t Haveye not askedofthem that goe by the way and doe ye not know their tokens ? o Bnow prepares and buckles himfelfe to draw up his J Conclufion, not only towhat Zophar had lately fpoken, but generally to all that had been fpokenby any ofhis friends from the beginning of the difputation. Behold I know your thought:. yob feems to deale with their thoughts as well as with their words, with their intentions as well aswith their arguments ; Behold ! He might well put ABeholdbefore this ; for 'ris a wonder. Comefee a man ( faid that woman with admiration. 7oh, 4.29.) which told me all things that ever Idid.And we may fay with no leffe admiratiou,C'ome, behold a man that can tell see what we think A man who not only heareth what mea are (peaking, but feeth what they are thinking. Behold (faith ?ob) I knowyour thoughts. TheHebrew word which we render thoughts, is not meant ofany ordinary tranfient thoughts, which flip inand out un regarded ; but of fettled thoughts, well wrought thoughts, thoughts made up and curioufly formed into conclufions or refolutions. It notes a kinde Art in thinking, though to thinkbe a naturall work, yet there is nothing wherein man aeteth the Arcift more then he doth in thinking ; In this much of the Helkib black art, and in this much of the heavenly and holy Art is exercifed, though in neither of them it be film- ed. Thoughts are dole; fecret worke ; and yet there is muchart in hiding this art of thinking, or at lean in hiding what we have thought, till the feafons of difcovery.fpeyo 41 a suilÍi lj
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