17o Chap, S. 6,4n ExpefiLion upon the Book, ofJ o B. Verf. 14t the Ocean,compared with Gods. And can our drop comprehend his Ocean ? A bucket Ball as foon take in the Ocean, as mall the wifdom of God. The Apoftie Paul (peaking of the Gentiles (72sm, I. Z2.) faith, that proffffing themfelves wife they became fools. They who take' it upon them to have that wifdom which they have nor, deferve to have the wifdom taken from them which they have ; And they who negle&ing to know God, or what they know of God, have an ambition to be knowing as God, are juítly left to be lets knowing then man ; that is, to become fools. He that would be wife fpiritually mutt become a fool, (i Cor. 3. t$.)He muff lay :fide his own wifdom before he can exalt or receive the wifdom of God. Happy are they wh o become fools that they may be wife ; bat woe unto tbofe who are jo wife,tbat they becomePoles. And if the wifcft and holyett of men cannot reach the fccrets of God in the workings of his providence, Purely then, no natural man can retch the ferrets of God in the workings of his grace and Spirit. The natural underftanding of man is m&re in thedark about the lead and lowed things of grace, then about thegreated and highed things ofnature. The natural man (as the Apodle . concludes, i Coe, z .1q ,) receiveth (orapprehendeth) not the things oftheSpirit of God,for theyare foolifhnefs unto him ; neither can he know them, becau(e they are fpiritually difcerned. He that fee.h fpirituall objedts mutt have a fpiritual eye. Meere fence in bca(Is is not farther from reafon, then were reafon in man iofrom grata. And here let us rake noticeof the goodnefs of God, who Lath not hid the knowledge of any of chofe things from us, whichare neceffaryfor us toknow ; nor bath the Lord hid other things from us which he doth hide, as if he did`envie our knowledge of them (as the Devil fitly fuggefted to cur fìrft parents ) but becaufe it is not good, much leis neceffary for us to know them ; He bath given us the knowledge of all that is neceffary and good for us toknow. And v hereas that other wifdom or knowledge is nor to be found any where in the land of the living ; this is (upon the matter) every where to be found. To be fu-e wifdorres houfe, and the podsof wifddín,are to be found in all places were thrift is known, and the found of the Gofpel comes, And if other parts of the wo ld are draitned , for the meansof holy faxingknow- ledge,
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