Ili Chap. zz. An xpoficion upon the Bookof 7Oß. Vert: t z, not onely to be as great, or to have as much as another, but to beor have any thing ac all. Nor isany man more fit to be more then he is, then he that can rejoycewhile another is more then he Secondly, Note li The creature leads us to God. That's the tendency and fcope ofall that is here afferted. .Bliphaz, calls not 7,6 to the meditation, or contemplation of the Starres to leave him there. Some Rudy the heavens much, but their lives areearthly ; they íludy the Starres, yet there is nothing but dirt in their hearts, and the reason is, becaufe they fludy the Starres, for the Starres take, and not for Gods fake and make the Starres their end, not their way, or as Starres, to lead them to God. This is the reafon why many Aftronomers and Philofophers , who butie their heads and minds much in (peculation about the nature of the heavenly bodyes, know not at all what it is to have their converfati ons in heavens or to minde the things that are above. We fbould fo behold the glory oftheStarres, as from thence to inferre, that God is much more glorious, yea that , theft things which were made glorious, have no glory incompari* fonofthat Glory which made them. Plato taught his Schollers tofay ; The earth is beauti full, the heavens are more beautiful!, but Godwho made the earth,andthe heavens,ie more beautifug then both. Thevifible creature fhewes the invifibleGod (P(al. 1g. 1, 2.) Theheavens declare the glory of G.;d, and the firmament fheweeb his handy worse. But O how glorious is the invifible God, who bath made loch vifibie creatures? and what- a worke_ Mater is he who bath let ap iuch a work ? ( Rom. 1. 2 O. ) The invifible things of himfrom the creation of the world are clearely fees, being undertoodby the things that are made, even hie eternag power and god-head. The things that are Made, carry us to the maker of them, and they tell us, that none but he whobath an etertîall power and god head, could pofiibly make them. The Heathen thought theSunne Moone, and Starres, to be Gods, therefore certainly there is verymuch ofGod, much ofthe glory and power ofGod tobe Peen in them. And yob faith (which doth plainly thew that in rature it is fo, 0. 31. 26.) i f'
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