4y6 (chap. 24. An Expofition tom the Book of Jos. Verf,r. for the feafons and opportunities of anion. The Lord knowes what time will be as a wheele oras a Pocket fitted for the carrying on or ettablifhingofevery worke?We are often troubled at this, and mille our (calm, but Godknoweth every feafon,heknoweth the times, and therefore can time every workeexanly. And the Tl'V derot2t Hebrew word here ufed, properly fignifies a ,fit or a convenient cory-eam terra time.. implying that time, in that n&tion,is not hidden fromGod. Per' 1 a. 50. Godbathgiven me tbe tongueof the learned, that 1 (f s4) mightfpeake a word isfeafon bim that ie wearJ. Which Lome trat,flate thus,That 1might know the appointed time to theafiïfed. Anatiided foul mutt be watched, anda feafon taken; there times are not hidden from the Almighty, he knoweth the opportunity, and therefore can dire him that fpeakes to a wearyed foul, as to fpeake proper and taking matter,, fo to fpeake it in a proper and taking time, when it (hall be as welcome to the foule as raine to the dry and this Pty ground. David faith, the Lord (P/al. 23.) It is time L.çrdfor thee to workefor theyhave made voyd thy Law ; that is,now is thy feafon,and opportunity for thee towork,, ifever thou wilt fhew thy felfdoe it now. And when David con_ faired (P/al. 3.I. 15. ) My times are in thy hand. He means that Fen telvd the feafons ofhis comforts, and ofhis ferrowes, all the turnings àn,elfigis'crum and changesof his life from one condition to another, were cart t,"'n`tudl'er' and ordered by the power d it 51 pat,. y and wifdome ofGod.Why jeeig times ec íe >, ps.em are not hiddenfrom the Almighty., em b`úrn`' ro The they that know him, not fee his ¿ayes. F,ex c r Thus 7,6 defcribes the perlons that fee not . the dayes of God they are filch as know him. Which charaâer, as was !hewed be- fore, belongs to every Godly man,thoughit be morepeculiar to forne. Hencenote firft, Every Godly man knoweth God And none but the Godly know him indeed;many ungodly meta profefs they knowGod,and theymay know him notionally, but no ungodlyman knoweth him. truly, experimentally, or praât- cally. Many ungodlymen have aformeof knowledge, and of the truth in the Law (as the Apoftle fpeakes ofthe Jewes. R'm. 2. acs) but no ungodly man feeleth the power ofknowledge, and of
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