r 288 Chap. $8, an Expö.fitión upon the Book, ofJ o 1. Verf. Ig; Wherefore toclofe-this whole difcourfe about theprecious things ofthe earth , I ihallgive in thefe brief Corataries. Full, doe not reek wifdom where wisdom is not tobe found. The depth faithplainly it is n t inme, and the lea faith plainly it is not in me ; therefore 'do..not feek it either in thedeepplaces of the earth, or in the bofome of the fea ; that is s feek it not in any worldly attainment, or enjoyment. Second ly,Sceing the bell thins of the earth arenot tobe com- pared with wifdom, then and pray for wifdom above all earthly things ; for true wifdom tounderfland and know (fo far as God revealeth his fecrcts tothe .creature)the fecret of God in his dealings with others, efpecially what leffons and infituóions he gives us in his providential difpenfations"toour felves. Tobe quick-fighredand quick- fentedabout the worksof God, to have anunderflanding in them, is a high price of fpiritual wifdom. This wifdem (as Solomon fpeaks, Prov.4.7.) is aprincipal thing, therefore get this _wii(doer/, and with all thygettings, get tbis under- (bending. Thirdly, Seeing the bell of earthly things bear no weight, and are ofno price in comparifon of heavenly, let not earthly things draw us off from the purfuit of heavenly. Let notSilver outweigh wifdom in our ballance,nor the Gold ofOpbirbevalued 'aboveit;Let things flanel in our rate-book as they hand in Gods. Themoll of men are of a reprobate mind,highly valuing what God flights,and (lighting that which God mofl highly values. They are of aprophane fpirit like Efau,who (as the Apoflle rebukes his folly, lieb. a 2.16.)for ene morfelof meat fold his birth-right. Such bargaines and exchanges are daily made, by the wifetl of meet worldlymen.They know not how toapprove ofthingsthat are ex- cellent(aswe are advifed to doe,Phil. t i o.) or, (as we put in the Margin) ofthings that differ, that is,of things that differ in excel- lency; How often doe Web read jobs text backward in their Books as if Gold were to be valued before wifdom, and the price of Rubies were above it ; as if that were no match for the Topaz of Ethiopia, or were lefs precious then the Onix or the Saphire. AS they are wife men indeed and happy who know the true cattle,, fo alfoare they who know the ;roe pries andvalueof things. JOB.
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