zóz Chap.28. e,/1nEatpoiition upon the Book. ofJ 0 B. Verf. 14> compafs of nature,I ffiall only give fome brief notes from them as coc(dered together. Obferve Fitt+, There ie no creature can give tés any unerring intelligence ofthewayes ofGods providences or thermion of bis dea- lings with the fono ofmen. Though every creature proclailna that there is a God (we cannot [et a i ep, but wetread upon that which fpeakes a God; whichway foever ye look, ye have a reprefcntatàcn of his eternal power andGodhead(Rom.1.20. )The creatures being as fo many glaires which refle6f his divine perfeetions) yet none of the crea- tures can make a perfeet report to us of this wifdom of God; They thew us that God is wife, and we may findgreat Fiore of undenyable demonflrations of his wifdom every where, or any where, in any land of the living , in the depth, and in the Sea r But we cannot find this wifdom among them'all. The creatures have it nor, nature is not acquainted with ir,and therefore Tab goes higher, affirming that it is not only not to be found in the deepSea, or in the depths of the earth, best an knowetb not the price thereof; Hence Obferve, Secondly,` The wifell andholief! ofmen cannot enter into or anderffand the fecrets of God. There is not only a difficulty in the thing,but as to man, the bets of men,an utter impoifibility. We knotio nothing,but as God is pleafed tomake us know ir. And there are forme things which he bath not at all promifed to make known to us. Secret things (faithMofes, Deut: 29. r.9.) belong unto the Lord our Clod ; that is, they are hispeculiars,or his peculia :ly. And he there fpeakes of thole fecrets of providence which ate in the manifeU judge- ments and curies of God powred out upon wicked men,Forever in thofe things which are leen, there is much unfeen; and of vifi- blc askings, there are invifible reafons and purpofes : the key of there fecrets is kept in Gods hand, not in ours. God bath three forts of fecrets ; firfl,the fecrets of his counfel and decrees ; fe- condly,the fecrets of his providence and outward adminit'trati ons;thirdly,the fecrets of hisSpitit and of his grace,From the two former,
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