Cti Pp. An ExpfitiOn upon theBook, of J o B. Verf. 27. 345 °as, aho reckoned what fhould be aaed in the leveral ages of the worla, mad how every thing ibould be difpofed of ; this is beyond comorehenfion, but the Lord is able to comprehend all things, :Amid being thecomprebenfion of all things, All and one t'e (as we -.4)) al one t<shim, who ie himfelfmore then all, yea to whom all ars ou nothing. The Scripture tells us more then orce how the divine a ,ithroetick .numbers thofe things that are to us innumerable. The Lord faith to Abraham, Lift up now thine eyes, 414100torn towards. Heaven, an tell the Stars,if thole be able to number them ; andhefaid unto him,fofhall thy feed be ; that is, they (hall (as to man) be innumerable or without number ; but the Lord knowes the number of the Stars (P/al. 147. 4. ) He telleth the num.ber ofthe Stars, be calleth themall by their:names Theold Af/ronomets could hardly tell them to elevenhundred, and the Wtiernes with their moil artificiali glaffes are as far from numbring them, as they arc from governing them ; but the Lord telteth the.ati, as aShcphdrd dothhis flock, or a Mailer his family, and calleh themall by their names ; which implies as a (Dina knowledge of them,fo a putting of them into their feve- ralimployments. We think the haires of our head cannot be numbred, yet Chill faith (Math. 10. 3o.) 7he haires of your head are allinumbred. Which he fpake CO allure his Difciples that nothing ihould befall them but what he had reckoned upon be- fore. Those numberefi myPeps (faith fob Chap. 14.16.) And a- gain, Chap. 314.1Doth not he count all my fieps ? Yea faith Da- vid 56. 8.) Thoo telleft mywandrings ; God bath the num- ber of all our aetions, which Job calls his Ape, and of all our af- fliaions andperfecutions, which Davidcalls his wandringe, be- caufe they gave him many troublefome and uncertain removes. As the Lord knowes the particular account of all that himfeli will doe, foof all that we either .doe or fuffer. He is (as we put in the Margin, Dan. 8. 13.) The numberer offerrets, or the wonderful numberer. The word Pa/moni there ufed by the P:opher, being compounded of pala, which fignifies wonderful, and Manah to number, is aloft properly applicable to Chrifi the word and wif- dom of the Farher,ro whole trufl all the fettersof providence are committed, and from him tranflaied by fuch instruments as he rai- fedup and fendeth forth to execute all the Fathers appointments. TheFather hath numbred them to him as Mediator and Kingof Y y Saints.,
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