Chap. 24. An Expef:tion upon the Pook of if O a. From the former part of the aerie, Note. rirft, That timesare known, perfekly )mown to God. Yea not only are times perfectly known to God, but firmely fixed and moil: wifely difpofed ofby him ; men may know that which they have nopower to difpofe of ; but the knowledge of God and his power run paralel through all times and things. So that as when the Text faith, Times are net biddenfrom the At.. migkty,it notes that they are fully known to him,fo alto chat they are controuleably difpofed, and ordered by him. And as times are known toGod, fo he makes them known when and towhom he pleafeth. When 7ofepbhad revealed to Pharoah both the matter and the time concerned in his dreames, then ( faith Mofes, Gen. 41.45. ) Tb.or?al.. called ?opphs name Zapnath paaneal', which fay fone lignifies in the Egyptian language, The saviour ofthe orlsl: Which name, fay they, Pharoah might give him, becaule by his advife in layingup flores ofcorne in the yeares ofplenty, fuch a world of men, or fogreat a part of the world, was faved from p-erifhing by famine in the yeares offcarcity. But,fay others deriving the word from an Hebrewmote, it lignifiesa revealer of Jeerers. Which title ofhonour 7ofeple well defcrved,'snd was moil p oiler Co him,feeing he had revealed that Great fccrct unto I'oa- rsah, both that there fhould be a famine, as alto the time and fea- fon of it. But where had 7o1epb this fecret ? was it from any aft ro- logical! skill ofhis own ? He tellsus plainly whence it was at the 1 5thand 16thverles ofthe fame Chapter; for when Pharoah had Paid to Weph ; Ihave heardfayofthee that thoucant uoderfìnd dreamt to interpret it ; He prefently anfwe;s, firfl, Negatively, la is net in me; and t! en affirmatively, God i.:llgive Phureah an an[werofpeace. See the like in that molt temarkeahle paffage ( Dan. z. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. ) From all which we learn that God knoweth times and changeth times, that is, makes great charges in times according to the counfell ofhis own will. Nit, Ifwe take time, for the fuccefiioa of dayes, weekes, months, yeas, and ages, thus the Lord knoweth times.Thenum- ber of the dayes ofman, the precife number of the yeares and ages wherein any worldly flare or power Bull continue, are not hidden from him. Secondly, Times are not hidden fromGod, as times are taken Ppp2 for
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