Chap. 28, An Expofitìon upon. the Book of J. o B. Vert. 27. 343 claim and trumpet out the Author of them infinitely wife. That enarrandi earn, wifdom which lay in the mind of God fromEternity, he did ex- quum ipf e re, a prefs,tiamp, and print upon viCable things in the work of creation, deoereats,dei fapientiamo6i yea and be gives as it were a new and frefh edition of that infi- $eetoquantur, nice wifdom in the workes of hisprovidence every day. Thendid teJJentur be declare it. deprdicent. Hence Note; Merce God bath made known his wifdomfrom the beginning of the world. Goddeclares himfelf threewayes. Firti, byhis Word, to the ear. Secondly, by his Spirit, to the heart:. Thirdly,by his workes,to the eye ; and there are either workes of crearion, orprovidence. David wonders at the declaration, which is madeby the works of God (Pfal. Ig. 1.) The heavens declare the glory of God, (it is this word) Te cannot want a preacher of the wifdom of God,while we behold the Heavens)and the firmament fheweth his handy -work (fuch work a1 no hand but his could doe) day unto day utteretb fpeech, night unto night fhewetbknowledge ; that is, night and day thew the wifdom and knowledge of God in treating and ordering the morions and f{a- rions of the creature. Learn the wifdom of God from his worker, from what he once did, and from what he bath done ever fince, and is daily do- ing. Foreven the workes of God are fuch a difcovery of the wifdom of God, as will leave all men without excufe ; as the A pofile concludes in his firf1 Chapter co the Romans. Though the creatures cannot make fuch a. difcovery of God tous as will fave us ; yet theymake fuck adifcovery of God as will convince us, and flop our mouths for ever, if by their teachingalone we glori fez him not as God,nor are thankful,but becamevain in our imagi- nations, and our fáolifh hearts are dark,red. The ? pofile there en- formes us how forely and fevered God revenged the neglea of the declaration ofhis wifdom by his workes,and if fo,how revere- ly will he revenge the neglet of the declaration of his wifdomby his word, that word which he bath declared by the fubfiantial word,his Son Jefus Chrifi ?(Heb. r. i .)God,who atfundrytimes,and in divers manners,fpalq in time pail untethe fathers by the Proph ¢t, both,
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