31O Chap. 28. Ó Expcfition asponthe Bookof J o B. Verf. â7. fill acquainted with, of thofe we have aperfe& knowledge; the Lordbath as clear a knowledge of all things as if he had (earthed and lifted them to the Bran. Zophar faith, Canfi thou67fearch - ing find out God ? No,but God can find out all things without fearcbing ; be that bath all the depths and heights, all the fecrets and mif}eriesof wifdom in his ownbreaff, needs not fearch after ir. God often pofes and puzzles us with the things that we hear andfee, they are as riddles tous; but as the hardef things are eafie to the power of God, fo the darkelt things are light, and the molt intricate plain to the knowledge of God. There are force things that when we doe our belt in fearchinn,yet we cannot find. Davidwas upon the cross pointof providence to this which f{um bled jobene was troubled to fee God diltribute good to evilmen, as here jobwas to fee evil, diflributed to good men. And there being(according to the ancientrule)the fame reafonof contraries, it muff needs be, that a man fhouldbe alike Bumbled, to fee evil befal good men, as to fee goodbefal wicked men (Pfal.73.16, i7.)y'hen 1 thought to know roil it way too painfulfor tne.I thought toknow ir, but I was not able to reach ir, /swill went into the Santivary ofGod, then underflood 1 their end ; that is, howmatters would end or conclude with them ; I ufed holy means to fee this, I plowed with Gods heifer to find out.Gods riddle(as Sampfon faid to the Pbilifiines) and fo I learned the meaning of it . David hadnever been able to find out the riddle, had henot gone into the San&uary of God ; that is enquiredof God ; our knowledge of the fecrets of God is the gift of God, and that gift comes out of the San&uary. And yet there are forne fecrets, force private boxes in the providence of God, which though you goe to the San&uary, you (hall never be able to find out, nor get open to you. God will keep us in the dark about force things, but there is nothing dark CO God. The darknefs is no darknefs unto him; hidden and plain, dark and light make no difference with him, who rs light,and in whom there no is darknefs at all. I (hall not in. fit+ further upon this point, having been led to it by other paf- fages "of this book. Only rake notice that here are manywords, a heap of works, not a rude heap, but a molt divinely rhetorical heap, hefav, he declared,he prepared,and hefearched it out ; and all thofe to one and the fame ptìtpofe, to thew that the difpenfarious of Cod, though
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