Chap. 24. An Expofticn upon the Book of j O B. Verf. 1. 471 in his stone power. That is, which he bath not put forth or dífco- vered to the fonnes ofmen. All times are in Gods power, but thofe which be referves from men, and keeps under lock and key, therehe bath more efpecially put inhis power. God will not let thofe times appeare to men, wherein himfelfe is purpofed to ap. peare The time ofthofe workes of God are wrapt up in greateft darkneffe when they (hall be done, which being done f tine-forth with greatefl light ;and God will have it fo. hirft, To reprove and flop thecuriofity ofman : There is no. thing more naturali to man then adelre to know both what fl;al behereafter, and when that hereafter (hall be : we are.very negli- gent, and careleffe in feeking out the feafonof thatwhich we our Y.eme e.9 ail - felves fhould doe, but overcareful) and curious in feeking our the real curiofùm. feafon ofwhat God will doe. Man is given to vaine curiofity, and he is in nothing morevainly curious, then in an itch to know the times which God bath hidden from him. Molt men are great queftionifts, and their queftions wooly are about times, and fen. Ions, when (hall this, and that be ? The difciples of Chrift difco- vered this fpirit more then once, When Chrilt had told his Difci- pies that ofthofe Goodly buildings to which they admiringly poynted him, There fh,uldnot be one flore left upon another, that fhouldnot be ca(4 downe ( Math. 24.2.) They a while after came unto him privately, faying, tekl iu, when Iball thefe things be, and fhall be the figne of thy coming, andofthe end of the world ? Ic did not fatisfie them that Chrift had told them fah fhould be,unlefs he alfo tell them the time and feafon when they, fhould be. The Apoftle found this humour furring much in the Church of the 7hefalonians, for having fpoken of the refurreeton .of the body, and that then the Lordhimfelfe¡ball defcend fr<m heaven with n ¡bout, with the voice ofthe ArcIrAngel, and with tke.truvrkof Cod (1 Thef. 4. 15, 16.) He, to prevent their ingoificiveneffe about the time when this fhould be, begins the fifth Chapter thus Bus ofthe times and feafons brethrenye haveno need that I write unto you. Which implies, that either they had intimated Inch a gaery to him, deli ring to beacquainted with the time & feafonof thofe things, or that he forefaw they would beenquiring and making it their neat queftion, when /hall thefe things be? when (hall the deceafedSaints be raifed, and the living caught up, when (hall Chrift defcend from heaven with a (bout, &s ? SOme have made
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