Chap. 28. an Expefition upon theB2ok,of J o B. Verf. r,2. &c. 2vç courfe of the fecret and wonderful wifdcm of God, which is fuchftigari poffünt: as lyeth beyond the app:eheofion and reach of the wifefi of the f21ä, 'rod i childrenof men. For the clearer demonflration whereof,firfi, he f ßudio et co- tells us, what admirable things God bath given man wifdom to nn for, and attain unto. And this from the beginning of thef igobilo flee e- Chapter to the end of the eleventh verfe, in which difcourfe heJlimabilis ell: fetteth forth the extream labour and curious skill of man in find- Brent: De rebus aper- ing out and fetching up the precious minerals of the earth. And cis et di tun he infianceth in Silver, and in Gold, in brafs and iron, all which inpuniédsf:e- are laid up in the fecret clofetsand bowels of the earth; yet mans leratu tun' un tt, indufrious ingenuitydigs unto them and brings them forth. And protegendiipzis by his art workstbem,up to that perfeecion, wherein we feeand Prenuddamsna ufe them. Thefe four minerals or forts of metta! we have in the eftoNunc ad two former verfes : Silver and Gold, are the King and Q_teeen of iliaoccultaet ho- mends ai ; brafs and iron, are as fervants to themanifold occafions Venituaab of this life. fob havingfpecifed thefe, profecuteth thedifficulty oaveñamus; and laborioufnefs of feeking for and attaining. them, as allo the Eez: skill of man in working and perfeFking.them, quite thorow this whole context. And be infianceth in thefe mettals, as alto in the art and skill that is exercifed about them, becaufe thefe are as great a tryal and exercife of the wifdom of man as any that is E'î uidem fir known. The wifdom of man in difcovering the heavens by ob- mini a dea at- fervation, and the feas by navigation is great, yet inferior to and tributa mirabi. below, at bell (fay tome very leached men) but equal unto this. !nays et,lapien There being nothing in this viable world wherein man gives an tia,quæfi alibi higher evidence of his skit and a &ivity, then in drawingout and Ìfquam,r duc t: working thefe things, which according to the method of nature, effo }nibss. or rather the appointment of the God of nature are placed lowed. Jun: Therefore fob cloth properly fix upon this particular to de- mon(irate that the wifdom of man may go very far, or how far sane homo in- it may go in naturals, and that yet he is a very dullard at, or ve- venitvenas ai- ry far from finding out the fecrets of providence ; as appeares8in g tab to at - the fecond part of the Chapter, where he treats of thedeep and nonpateft inve- unfearchable wifdom of God in his various dealings with men, fire fapientiaft whether good or bad, whether in alibiingor in profpering them; illan quaabdi- which he affames tobe fuch, that man canneither conceive nor toei in7udiciis reveale it. Wherek the placeoftvifdoin ? Men can find out Gold !ill.' eiilquunz and Silver, and iron and brafs, men will venture through all di ffi pion e contrail= culiiesand dangersbutthey wil.-gctthefe for .theirufeandenrichfigit. Pifc: ment, ,
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