3o8 Chap. 28. an Expofttion repon the book, of J o B. Verf. 2441 be upon thee ; that is,co guide thee in all thy undertakings. And as Gods eye is the guide of perfons,foof things, his fight is influen- tial, and turnes the whole world about. Further, take theft con dufions concerning the fight of God. Firfl,The Lord beholds all thingsdi(lin&ly; not ingrofs only,, or in a lump ;he beholds the lean as well as the greaten' ; he looks upon every parcell, and opens the whole pack and bundle of hu- mane affaires. Secondly, He beholds every thing and perfonperfealy, fully, quite through ; Hisis an intentive and moft attentive view. Thirdly, In feting he governs every thingeffe&wally, and workes it to his own 'ends ; He over-rules the purpofes of men to his own purpofe ; He guided) the whole creation with his eye; which way he 'cokes, he makes that look too, which wayhe is pleafed to move,that (hall move too ; His is 4 riding eye. Fourthly, He feeth all things together,not fuccefíively,or one thing after another. He that is all eye fetch all at once, all as one. ( /Eh r 5. 18.) Knownunto God are all hisworks from the begin- ning of the world. He knew his works before they were wrought and fo he knows ours. He knowes them in their cauCes ; He Both pot onlyknow what is, but what bath been,. yea what (hall be, it oneview,an3 that in himfelf.He declareth the endfrom thebegin.. ring (Ica. 4G. to. ) that is, he feeth what the end or iffue of every thing will be, not only when we begin or undertake it, but from the beginningof all things, yea before any thing bad a be- ginning. Is and was,and is to come, are alike to God, who (firif ly) neither was nor is to come, but ever is. Min feeth all that he leech fucceffively,and by fucceflion. Man cannot fee all that is together, neither can he fee any thing at all that is not,or bath not been. Man may fee backward by hy(lorie, an he may fee forward by prophetic ; but of himfelf he cannot fee a daybefore him, no nor what (hall bon the fame day (Pro. 27.1.) Boafl not thyfeifofto morrow , for thins k owefl not what aday may bringforth. Every day is in travel,and bringeth forth tome birth,but we know not how or what to name the child, whethergood or evil,'whether Benjamin or Benoni, joy or forrow, till wefeeit bratsght forth. As God only looker) to the-ends of the earth, to he only leech the end of all things which (hall be done upon the earth, and he feeth all thefe ekiings_and their ends together, and that from the beginning. Hec e.
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