344 Chap. zc. exnExpcftion upor,the Bookof J o B. Vert: 2,7. hatb in thefe lafl ¿ayes fpoken to us by bis Son, whom bebath ap- pointed heir ofall things, by whom alfahe made theworld,wbo being the brightnefs of hisglory, and the expreft image ofhis perfon, and upholding all things by the word ofhis power, when he had by himfelf purgedourfins, fate down on the right band of the Majeflyon high. And as this Chrift the Son of God,is the bright nefs of his Fathers glory, fo the light ofthe knowledge of the Glory of God fhineth to us in the face of Jefus Chrift ( z Cor. 4. 6.) That is, the wifdom, goodnefs, and mercy of God, which are his glory, are made known to us in the perfon and offices of Jefus Chrifl.- Now, I fay, if God proceeded fo feverely with thofe who did not make ufe of that vertual declarationof his wifdom in the creature, what will he doe to thofe who flight or doe not improve what he bath for- mally declared in the perfonof his Son, and what he declareth daily in the preachingof the Gofpel ?Thendid bedeclare it ? Secondly, The word which we render to declare, lignifies alto to nunaber,!or account, and fo'ds nfed in this conjugation, (Pf.z2. 17.) /may tell (or number) all my bones. The bones of a man may he nutñbred at any time ; but the bones ofa man in health and full of flefhcannot be Peen di(fin6tly, and fo cannot be told ,' therefore David as a type of ChriU, fpake thus, to (hewhow he was worn and confumed with forrow, even fo confirmed, that (as we fay of amacerated lean man) he might tell or number all bis bones, they (asit followes in the fame verle) even looked and flaredupouPim.Thus alto did God tell or number áwifdom, that is the feveral wayes and aíets of wifdom. He declared thema- rithmetically, or had an cxa& account of them how many they were, or how many he purpofed to put forth among the children of men. God rook the number of all things that he would make, and of all chat h: woulddoe ; not that God needes to keep ac- counts as men doe ; but he is laid to doe fo, that we may know affuredly he knowes the number of them as particularly as if he kept a bockof accounts, and let down the number of them. .Hence Note ; God hada perfea account in bimfelffrom the beginning what he would doe, and what ever fhould be done or come topats in the world. He rcckoned how many creatures Le would rralte, aed of what forts
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