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Chap. 26. An Expofition upon the Book of J O t3. Vert. i 4. 817 neereft to us. The word takes inborh,and is ufed for both in one Ne me pewit text. (Pia!: 19 6.) Hill goingfrtii (that is, the going forth of omma enamel the Surine) u from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto tha ,eemx ten ends of it : As if he had faid, the Stmne cornpaffeth the heaven atgi, Goc: round, and vtfiteth both the hithermoft and uttermofl (as tous) extcemit;es of it.I . the prefea t text of yob we are to underftand it of he h ithermott ex.remity or of that which is next us,imply- ing that there are many and much more glorious things to be fpotcenorGod,.f we we able to comprehend them& reach the uttermoft end or extremity ofthem. And that it is fo to beun- derhood here, is plain Icoto the next words,' Bat how little a por- tion is heard 6f taa». In compliance withwhich fence fume render Ecce ofn o- the ccxc thus, Voile are the edges .,:r borders of his wayes ; as if lob jam. tatu had laid. I have {hewed you only the borders;I havenot led you Licet qua dixi into the heart oftheCountry,or into the midft of the works and frenfihae notrir, wayes of God,much 1. fie to the fu, heft extremity or outfideof ma ode vmaxi- them. I have indeed ,poken of very great and wonderful) things, efla ant yet all that I have find e, but little to what m ght be Paid, or at ,74,` r n a n¡,ea 'calk to what really is. I have given you as it were the parings tH ,amen dint and chiping, ofGods workes, I have not gone to the bottorne, n nineenii annan nor reached the depthof them. So that . :b feerns to ditlinguifh f iQf7Pina theft eff cii and works of God,about which he had dilcour fed, 1;4' manimafem from forne g.eater works, which he was not able to attain unto, parucula eirum nor make any difcovery of; There are not onety Celefliall, but toa fach acfa- fuper-celeftiail workes of God,we cannot well apprehend, much cere potefi. Bold: leffe comprehend what he h th wrought under the heavens, E,xd: vis which a -eonly the ou G,?e ofhis works, much lefle thofe which eruct opera má are above the heavers:i or as none of the worksof God appeare nora q° noffri to us, or have been found out by us in their fulneffe and utmoft Coe. extent, fo God ha,h done fome great works whichdoe not at all appeare to ui;Asu' thofe things which appeare are but fm If parts or parcels in cf mparifoo ofth :fe ,..e -hich as yet do not appear to us,Lo, thole are parts f his ways. The wayes of God are fpoken of inScripture under a tw..ifold notion. FA, As the wryer in which God would have us wa:k; fo the commandements and RRatutes of God, are called the wayes of God (Pfal. t i 9 33.) Teach rise, 0 Lord,tle mil ofthyfi.ttn :es, /5f1J(hall keeps7c tint° the end. Secondly, The vVayes ofGod are thofe wherein he comes Mmmmm and

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