Chap. 28. eels; Expo f i tion upon the Book o f )o s. Verf. í, 2 1 5 ly, to flew that God path bellowed wifdom upon many men to find them out, how fecretly foever laid up in the earth, as allo all the fecrets about them, and that yet he hath not bellowed fttch wifdom upon any man, as loth enable him to find out all the fe- crets of his piovidence,or to fee to the bottome of all his dealings with the children of men. Obferve; Fief}, 7be wifdom by which man finds out the bidden things cf nature, is a gift befl'owed upon bons by God. Though natural men, that is, men unregenerate andunrenew- ed bygrace, may have abilities for that work ; yet they bave it not by nature. Gold and filver, iron and brais, had laine in the bowels and bofome of the earth undrawn our to this day, if God had not taught man how to fcarch and fetch them our. And there- fore when it is laid of Tudal-Cain, that he was the inflrualer of thole that wrought in iron andbrafs ; we muff underfiand him to be Gods icholler, though a Meier or intimater to ales. Arts and Sciences are not meer humane inventions ; They are alto (in their degree) gifts of God. Motes fpeaks expreffely, that they who were fitted to work in gold and purple, &c. for the Tabernacle, received their wifdom from the Lord (Exod. 36. a.) Then wrought Bez.aleel andAboliab and everywife- hearted man in whom the Lard put wifdom and underflanding to know how to work, all manner of work for the fervice of the Sartluary. As every fpiaitu- al, fo every artificial and civil good gift comes fromabove. It is Godwho infiru6leth the warner how to fight ; Be teacheth my bands to war, andmyfingers tofight, faid David, (Pfal. 144, a.) yea, it is God who teacheth the husbandman to manage the earth, to fow his feed, and threfb it our. And if the wifdom by which mancloth chofe works of nature, which lie above ground,is of God, much more the wifdomby which he doth works of na- ture which lye under ground, is of God. We have a remarkable place for the former (Ifa. z8.) which Scripture though it reach further, and bath a very fpiritual meaning, and application in the Prophets fence ; yet there is a truth, in the outfide and plain let- ter of it, as to the prefent point (v. 24.) Dotb theplow-man plow all day to low r doth be openand breaktbe clodo ofthe ground .r when be bathmadeplain theface thereof, doth be not ca(I` abroad thefit- ches,
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