338 Chap. 2$, An Expofition upon the Book of J o $. Verf. 27. This whole verlebath a twofold reading. Firti, M of a thing. Secondly, M of a Perron. Our Tranflation runs in the former fenfe , Then didhe fee it; Which is four times repeated, together with fowr difiinc acs of God about it. Whereof the fira in order of the text, is, his fig htof ir. Then did be fee it; There are three queries tobe anfwered concerning this fight of God. Fir(i, It may be inquired about the time, whendid hef-eeit ? Secondly, About the place, where did he fee it ? Thirdly, About the manner, how did hefee it ? Tothe firfi Querie,the anfwer(as I touchedbefore)is plain in the 26 th verte ; when bemade a decree far the rain, andawayfor thelìgbtninj of the thunder, then did hefee it; Then,that is, from the beginning of the world ; yet we muff not ref1rain it to that beg inning flrialy taken, as if the firfl fight that Godhad of wif- dome was when he began tomake the world ; for he had the fight of it from everlatling, we can porno other dateupon that at but Filed jam him eternity. The participleof time, Then, Both not denote a time nonpricipiva wherein God begsn to fee, or to take noticeof wifdom, but temporii quocæ it implies and imports thus much, that God had alwayes acquain- perit effeindeo lance with ir, only hedid not explain er hold itforth, hedid not f °pien`i°¡gni' g a ive it out, as it were,to the view of theworld, till the.beginning fcar, pd cum abeterno eau: of time,, when he created the world, when he made a weight for babaerir run the wind,and a decreefor therain, ;then was the time when God demum expli law it fo, as ( which follows in the text )' to declare it, then did be cuf8e, coin "s (et it, and declare it ; that is,then didhelee it to declare ir,or give . ßd1° p`erir tefiimon Y ter- and demonflrationof it. , The wildern of God is ti \ rn$ a tit cæ it oondere. mere., nal, and therefore his fight ofit muf+ needs be eternal. Secondly, where did he fee it'? or where was wifdom Peen ? at the s 3 d verfe it isPaid, God underfbandeth the way thereof, and be know eth the place thereof ; but where is the place in which God Tuns fc.gtran . fa"w it ? I anfwer,Godfaw ir in himfelf r this wifdom is inGod, dp faciebatcre, yea this wifdom is God, we are to throw off the leafl imaginati- astracvidit iF on that God law this excellent and glorious wifdom or under- iart:,i. e.fapi flocd:it in any place or way extrinfecal or difiant from himfelf. By.
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