366 Chap. 23. An expofation upon the RookofJ O B. Vert. 9. That God may be,and often is,workinggreat hings,andwe not aile toapprehend or behold bins at hey work rt7V7 eaoperä> ve, tnvrlvere fco occultare ¡gnrficat. kuaf, dem meridie,na li parte velar o^erimento /efe rircumtcgae. úl ea mare at dexrr. 'mite esiarta The invi/Iblethings of god, even his eternallpower andGodhead arefeene in the things that are made, and that not onely in the things that he made while he created the world, but olio in the thingswhich he makes while he governes the world,and yet him. fclfe is not feene in making them ; and that not only becaufe he is invifible in his nature, but becaufe ( which is the poynt in hand) the manner ofhis working is invifible.In force things God works fo evidently,that the natural man cannot but fay,The fingerofGod is here. But in other things he works fo fecretly, that the fpiritu. all man is not able to fee where the finger of God is, unlefí'e upon that generall acknowledgement that the finger of Gad is every where. Solomon ( Pro. 30. r8.) faith, There be three things which are too wonderful'for mee ; yea, flare which 1 knots not ; the way ofan Eagle in the gyre, the wayofa Serpent upon a rocky, and the way ofa Ship in the mido of the Sea;even fnch are the mo- tions of God, the wayes and Workings ofGod among the fons of men ; A fhip in the Sea leaves no track, no path ; you cannot fee where the Ship hath failed ; The ¡hip plowes the Ocean, but the furrowesare unfeene as foonas made. A Serpent upon a -rocke, makes nodint, leaves no foorffeps behinde him ; the flying Eag`e parts the aire, but there's no difcerning where the bath pad. And thus 7,1; fumes to fpeake here ; Thouzb Igot to theNorth while God trot-kale, yet I can fee no more ofhim, thenof the way ofan Eagle in the aire, or of a Serpent upon a rock, or ofa Ship in the Sea, /cannot behold him while he worketh, nor the way of his working., And further, He lcidetb hirnfelfe en the right hand that I cannot fee him. Theword which we render hideth lignifieth,to wrapup with a covering implying that God loth cover himfelfe from the eye of man, in or with the right handpart o`theworld. Some render it thus; He kidetb hù right hand,or kid working band,tbat 'cannotfie him. We render it well,. he bideth kimfelfe on tke right hand that I cannotfee him. The right hand, is put in oppcfinon to the left, mentioned in the former part of the verfe. There, in the South, God doth (as it were) purpofely and artificially hide, and calf a vaile
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