290 Chap. 28. an ExpofitionOpen the bookof J O B. Verf. 2i; pared it,yea andparched it out. Thus we have the parts andme- thod of jobs,profound difçpurfe upon this great poìnt,I-(hall now touch upon them in their 'order. Whence then comet, wifdom ? and where it the place ofunderfianding?This verfe is the fame with the tzth, already opened, and therefore I (hall not flay upon it; And thenext is almo(} the fame with the t 3th, and thereforeI fhall make but little flay upon that alto. Verf. Z t. Socinp it is hiddenfrom the eyes ofall living, &c 'Tis hid, firfi, from the eye of the body ; and thusall wifdom is hid from the eyes all men : wifdom isnot a corporeal ob- je&, and therefore falls not under the eye of fenft ,. menmay look long enough with that eye, and never get a fight of it. Se- condly,'cis hidden from the eye of a created underfianding, the eye of mans mind, even his intelledtual eye feethnot this wifdom of God. Thenatural underfianding of the moll underfianding mancould never reach ir. There arc force things that we know not, becaufe they cannot be knownby us ; they are in themfelvea too myfierious for mans apprehenfion : other things are not known by us , becaufe they are concealed and hidden fromus.. ( Col. 3.3. ) Oar lifeir with Chrifi in god. Our fpirirual life is an hidden life. It is hidden from the fenfitive eye ofall men,.. and from the underfianding of all worldly men ; Only it is not hidden from the eye o fabeleiver, he is able by faith to fee that life, which is a fecret to all men living in the world betides. And as this life is hiddenfrom the fight of worldly men, fo from the malice of the Princeof this world; He would devour our fpiri- rual life, as he did the natural lift of Adam, were it not hidden (which his wasnot) in a Mediator. And as our fpirirual life is thus hidden from the Devil, and from mo(i men alive;So the wif- dom here fpoken of by job is bid from the eye ofall living, even from the eye of theSaints, and hòlyefi men alive. The work of n 1,;abfcondi the Spirit in man, and the works of providence for man, are a tom, occuloarus, great myfierie. Theoriginal word here rendered Hid, implies' ;fair. an intentional hiding, or the keepingof a thing ferret, on purpofe that it may not be leen. Wifdom like a chaff and model virgin ( the fame word liignifies a virgin and to be hid) is either,fhut up clofe at home, or goes vailed abroad, from the eyes of all be- holders,The old Egyptians whowrapt up their religion in darker$ (1ía:4.
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