Chap. 28. An Expofition upon the Bot of Jo B. Verf. 27. 339 By this wifdom he made all things that were made. The a&ual entia,n infepo contemplation of it in himfelf was the produ&ion of the world, inquanru,nper asco its beingin creation, and as to itsorder and welbeing un+ atuaelfuefa pientie confide der the government of his providence. a rational rest'"? Thirdly, It may be quefiioned ; HowJaw he it ? To fee in a effeproducit. proper fence is a fenf, Give a& of the bodily eye ; But as God is,* Aquin. Spirit, whom no eyebath feen nor can fee, fo being a Spirit ho doch not fee with the eye. His fight of wifdom is his knowledg e' fruition, and enjoyment; 'cis his molt intimate acquaintaric with, and ro%fliion ofir. Thus wifdom expounds the fight of God by poffediìon in the place before cïted(Pio.8. 2 2.),Tbe Lord pefJi f f'ed me in the beginning ofhis way before bis workes ofold. Further, Someexpound this wifdom not of the obje& feen, but of the medium or light by which God faw a 1 things.And thus the text is carried in all the four parts of it ; Then did be fee (all things) by it, and thendid be declare (all things) by it, then did be kepare (all things) by it, and thendid hefe arch(all things) by it ; t at is, what ever God did, he did by his infinite hidden unfearchable wifdom. Thus much for the clearing of Jobs firfi aftertion, then didbefee it. Hence Obferve; God fawall things, all the works ofwifdom,and all thewifdom of bis works, from eternity inbimfetf. Hefaw wifdom, and he few all things by that wifdomr as çod fawevery thing that be hadmade, andbehold it was verygood, (Gen. t . 3 t.)'fo God few every thing before he made it : he had as is were, the platform, the mould, the idea of all his works of creation,and of all his workes of providence,alwayes before him. Not that God needed to draw aplatform of things to work af- ter. When men have any great building to faup, they draw the patternor plot of it , and keep it by them, that the whole work may goup futably ; the Lord is infinitely above such poor helps as these, be doch all things infinitely more exa&iy then men, who work by models and formes without them ; God had the form of all thatbimfeif purposed todoe, and of all things that were or are co bedone in the world in himfelf before they were. Thus he fpake by the holyProphet (Ifa. 46. c o.) Remember the for- mer thngr ofold,for I am God,and there ie none elfe, l am God, and X x 2 there
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=