7o8 Chap. 2 5. An Expcf3tion sepon the BookofJ OB. Verf. 5. heldO Tab; andbe both aAamed ofandaflonifbedat thy owne folly, in ve toyin+upon a tryal6Efore God, who isoffuck infrare purity, that while he fibupon all thefeheavenly lights that are ab, ve the .ti/Lone, even to or as law as the M on,wbick(as Af#ronomers teach) is the lowrfl cfall the planets,it fhinethnot, there is nobrightnefs, no beauty in any of them ; They are all in comparifon of God but clouds ana darknefs, but clods e fearth anddirt. eilnd if theyThine not in the eye ofGad, Purelymuch leffe eleft thou, who art a worsen, and but a clod ofmoving or breathing earth ? Secondly, Others expound it by afcending, As ifBildad had fpoken thus: Behold, O lob, and tremble at thy prefumption in deli- ring that Godfhculd take fo exalï a/crutinyof thee & of thy caufe : for look upon all theparts ofthe info-japer vifi6le world, look upon all theirglories andexcellencies,and look n,: only upon therethings that are creeping here upon theearth,but lift up thine eyes ashigh as the. Moone itfelfe, Behold even to the c_*íooue (which is, as it were the boundary between the upperand the lower world :The Moone being the loweff ofthe upper world, and thebigbeft of the lower warld,new faith B.Idad, furveigh the world up to the Mere) and it fhineth not. But loth not the Meene ¡bine,? yes f theWore fhineth, the Moon is that leffer light which was made t rule the night (Gen a. I 6.) Why then doth he fay it lhinetk not ? the meaning is only this, that Moon light, and Sun-light, that all creatute-light is no I ght,nor their fhining to be ca' -led fhining. when we fpeak of the Tight and (billings of God himfelfe. The Moore fhineth for the ufe and to the eye of man, but theM son fhineth not for an ufe toor in the eye ofGod. As because he is light, he neederh no light, fo because there was no light till hecreated ir, the light of the creature is nothing unto him, The Moone and Starres (hint, but when theSunne is up they Thine nor,thar is,not to our. view;the Starres Thine as much in the day as in the night, though we cannot fee them beingover pow- red by that greeter light, the I,ght of he Sun;Se when the glory of the Lord api.Tareth, both Surine and Moone difappeare, and hz *day re no more ken. The light of theworld is no light where God lai a luridaeíf cda is named ; doe but fpeake of God,and all the beauty and bright- t ,MT,,deo neffeof the creature fades and isextin&. The Moon is a very ho:ab1: bea.utifull creature confideredby it felfe, as lob fpeaks to thew how
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