26.o . Chap,28. an Expofition upon the Boob of J o B, Verf. 3 3. We may-well fay with Job, where ie the place of this underfland inq ? And as the place of it is not known, fo neither hath man a price in his hand to purchafe ir. Verf. t 3. Ulan knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the living. When lob :faith, Man knoo eth not, we are not to expound it of this or that man or fort of men, dii ingui(iaed from the ref; as of weak men, o,r of ignorant men,or of unlearned men, or of men tl,c rantum a- of an inferior and common rank ; Nor are we to interpret Job gitur deinea - f eaking only of wicked or prophane men. Bugtake the wifefl, xáa divine ad- p minßrationis, the moll learned, the greatefl, yea the holier roen on earth, and qu rnépijs soi- even of them all it. may be faid,Man knowetb not,(rhat is, no one dens hominrbus man of all rhefemen knoweth) the price thereof. For not only ;atefat]a eel, ur they who have wifdome fromGod, but even they who have the merit° hie did qaeat nafquam wifdom of God, know not the wifdomwhich is here treated of. ntveniri, They who know much of the mind of God, yea (as Paul fpeakes r3crc. to the Church of 6phefus, A6ls 20. 27.) they who know ( as to what God would have mando ) all the Counfel of God, may yet know little or nothing of his mind or counfel, as to what him- fell hath done or is doing. This was the Prophets confeflion ( Ter12,1.) Righteous art thou O Lord, when Iplead with thee, yet let me talkwith thee of thy Judgetnents;wherefore, doth the way of the wickedprofiler ? Wherefore are all they happy (in the eye and lccount of the world he meaner, or in their ONO, for other hap- loefs fuchr have none)that deale very treacherou fly. That holy man did not know how to, clear up the Lords- righteoufnefs (though he knees be was righteous)whenhe law the unholy and unrighteous fiou°ifhing ; this looked like a matter quite out of order, and he could not fee the order of ir. And fo force render this text, Man knoweth not the order of it I Ihall touch that read- ing as loon as I have given a brief account of curs. t,Mrn knoweth not theprce thereof. ProUt u1:-q; re The, price of a thing is that which either, full, the efleem of abiqua rsten, or fecondly,the rarity of ir,or thirdly the danger and diffi - cur, irk Xre à3 cuir of attaining it, or fourthly, the intriafecal worth of ir, hath tnodtts c>'i 9 Jh y du,, libido put upon ir. 0.12 of the ancients gives an excellent account about fngidúpréeìum . the price of things ; As any one it delightedwith or phancyetb a thing,
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