Chap. 2 . an expo/1't4on upon the Bock of J o B. Verf®i 4. 269 all thefe fences to be remembred, fo he bath made many of them fo full ofwonders that they cannot be underfiood. i There are works of God in nature, which the greatefl Phifo- fophers have been at their wits end to find a reafon of, and( as'tis aid) one of them ended his life becaufe becould not find the rea- fon of one of them. Some Authors tell us,that Ariftetle nor be- ing able togive an account to himfelf or others why the Euboe- aaSea, or Euripus cbb'd and flowed feven times a day, cafi him- felf into it, fayitg, Sting 1 cannot apprehend thee, do thou take kuia Ego non me. Yea fome of the commoneff things in nature are beyond espio te,tu ere mans diCcovery ; and Solomon ufeth that as an argument to prove Piaf me. that man knowethnOt the providential works of God (Eccl. r r , S.) 4/ thou knowefï' not what is theway of the Splrit,that it,of the wind, as fame interpret, which rifeth and abáteth, cometh and- goeth no man knoweth how ; as Chrifi tells Nicodemsu (John 3. ) Thewind bloweth where it Vieth , and thou bearer the found thereof,bat knoweff not whence it cometb,or whither itgoetb. Others by the Spirit, underftand the foul of man, which enters the body and cpickneth it no man knows how,though it bedone every day; and this doth well comply with the latter part of the verfe, Nor bow the boner grow in the womb ofber that a with child. So that here is an affertion of mans ignorance about the works of God in thewhole frame andhformation of man, foul and body ; we ney- ther know, how the foul is conveighed into the body, nor how the body is formed in the womb by the joynting and growth of the bones. Whence Solomon inferres the point in hand, Even fo thou knoweft not the worker ofGod who maketh all;As if he had faid, as thou knoweR not the natural workes of God,fo neither doeft thou know his providential works;And as this is true of the times or feafons of Gods workings in providence, foalfo of the manner, intent or purpofe of God in it. Let this reprove and reprefs their bold curicfity, who have an itch topry into the fecrets of God, and are not fo much induftri- 'ous as immodefi, in fearching into chofe things which cannot be found (as if they could carry the wifdom of God (as Come (peak) in their fleeve, or put it into their pockets) while in the mean time, they are cold and carelefs in fearching into chore things which 'cis their duty to feek,and would be their happinefs to find, Our w ifdorn is but as the dropof the bucker, yeabut as a drop to the
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