Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v7

Chap. 23. An ExDofition upon the Boo(&f JOB. Vert. g. 3'67 es vaile over himfelfe ( faith `lob) left I fhould fee him there, he meridi himfelf yet more out of my view and reach then elfewhere. Tóermn Na The wordwhich we trar.fl:ite, the right hand, (ignifies the Sou. nà jean, prapo therm( partsofthe world (Cunt. 4. 16.) Amok O Northwinde, fr;o Thax Lxo. and come thou South, blow upon my garden. (Exod. 26. 18. )On 2.6. 18. nnde theSouth (or right) fide Southward. Theword is alto rendred, Me" f ap- peUuiv2 rn na- the rightfade, (2. Sam, 2¢. 5 ) On the right fide of the Gil. Fur- tut dextru n ther the word fignifies, as the right hand, fo-alto ffrength, becaufe Aolra'e f ee the right hand is flrongeft in molt menand readieft for rife. And meridrona!e fig. fo be hider bimfelfe on the right band may import (as was toucht nifrratg aatern before) that God hidethhimfelfe even there, where he puts forth P" Pie eta n9" teen regioos his itrengthand power. Anfiratis. From ail there expofitions laid together in that lob here faith, Hicron. he went f rward and backward, or Eat} andWeft, ors the right band, and on the left, or North and South ( from all I fay) i`t ap- pears that 766 was a great traveller,that he travel'd all the world over ; yet where was pi when he 1pake all this Was he not up. on his bed ? was he not Gods Prifoner, flint up in his Chamber, when he laid, Igoeforward andbackward, Northward and :.kouria- ward, andyet I finde him not, perceive him not,fee kiiz note Hence learne; Firft, That God ie every where. }ob knew there was a pretenceofGod forward and backwa -d, Northward and Southward, He knew that God fills heaven and earthwith his pretence. There is a pretence ofGod from which the wont ofmen cannot goo, and there is a pretence ofGod into which, many times, the best ofmencannot get ; there was a pre- fence of God out ofwhich lob could not get, while ( according tohis delires) he could not get into the pretenceof God. Secondly, From chafe various negatives here ufed, I canrtct perceive him, I cannot beholdhim, l cannot fee him. i Obferve ; God if afpirit, net vifible at all inhimfelfand he only appear:, ai and to whom himfelfe pleafeth to appear to and among men. Theappearances of God arenot natural( but voluntary,whrn his will is tobe feenehe gives man the priviledge to fee him. It is altogether impofïible to fee himwith abodily eye,(; Tim.6 z 6.) God

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