268 Chap.28. ,/InExpofition upon the Book ofJ o n. Vcrf. 14 people, that is, who were apeople of no account or reckoning to becosi'e the people of God. And that God had indeed, as the Baptift faid he could, (Math. 3. 9. Rasfed atp cbilohen to Abra- barn out of f entr. What (hall we fay then ( we fcatce know what to fay,faith the îame Apoí Ue,Rom. 9. 30,3r That the Gentiles which followed not after rigbteonfnefs(yea which were filledwith all unrighteoufnef , Rom. r. 29.) Have attained unto righteouf,^efs, even the righteoafnefs which is of faith But Ifraelwhich followed after the law of rigbteoafnefs, bath not attained to the law ofrigb tearfnefs ; and though he gives aclear reafon of it, in regard of their g'ofs mif}ake, in feeling it not by faith, but as it were by the worksof the law ; yet 111111 here's a dreadfull fecret in ir, that they fhould be left to mifiake So grofly. In there things the «ayes of God are a dcep,and as they are a deep,(o they are upon the deep : there is no tracing of his footfieps. Thy. way (faith David, Pfa1.77. t9.)isinthe fea,andthy path is ingreat waters, thy footfleps are not known ; That is, they are not alwayes known, or they are not known in all things, yea they are not altogether known in any thing. The Lord, in many of his providences, wallies as if aman fhould walk upon the Sea, who as loon as he is pa11, there's no print nor crack difcernable. A chip (we fay ) ploughcth the Ocean,and makes deep furrowes there; yet there is no appearance where the fhippaired, when once 'cis pails he that comes aftcr,cannot find where the keele herb made impreffi- on and cut the waters. Such are many of the wayes and paths of God ; where he doth mof},he appeares leaf+. The Lord reignetb (faith 'David, Pial. 92, 2.)And one would think, that where the Lord reigneth, there he fhould be moft vifible in his working, yet (as it followes ) even then, clouds and Bari nefs are round about him, that is, he axis as in the clouds, and his works are full .of darknefs, though fuller of rigbteoafnefs and judgement ( as it is there, alto, faid) towards the children of men, . _The Lord dwells in light inaccefble, or which no man can approach unto, (s Tivt.6. 16. ) and yet man cannot approach unto him for dark- nefs. He barb made has wonderfall works' to be remembred (Pfal. B r I. 4.) that is, he bath made them fo, that theyought tobe remembrcd, or he bath made them fo that they cannot choofe but be remembred ; if man would fet himfelfor fiudy to forget them, he cannot; and as he bath made his wonderful workes, In all
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