352 Chap. 3 r. An Expofition upon the Book of jo a. Vert. á. on enquiry ; which doth not import any nefcience in Godof fuch .Qsdam tune things till then, but only a teftimonyof his divine omnifcience. tnr: Arcunter God is then fayd toknow, fiat, when hemakes it manifeft tous gum fzlan that he Both or fecondly, he makes that knowne toothers tnanife!tantur. + S', which himfelfe knew while none elfe did. Some things are then fayd to be done by or knowne to man when they appeare to be fo, though they were both done by him and knowne to him long Sciat dcut, pe- before ; much more is it fo in reference to God. l-le knewwhat rindecfl ac fc;re was in the heart of the children of Ifrael before he brought them fee's`' '`°v" out of t yet Mofes faith Dent. 8.2. The Lard thy god nempe jud;cium Rip + Y f ( ) ï CJ quod univer5 led thee thefefourti ( eyeares in the wildernes, to humble thee, and to bomin bt in prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldeff neeejceret. sleep hir commandements or no.The belt ofmen have corruptions in vni fciatpc. themwhich themfelves know not, they have many more corrup- u,,nen quafi de pions which others know not. God led Ifrael about in the wilder- nova cagnofcitu- nes thofe forty yeares,& there exercifed them with various provi- un,fedgua(r a- has he might make them andothers know that unbeliere, lion de now fei- that rebellion and frowardneswhich himfelfe knew lay in their qia. rus. hearts undifcern'd, till ftraits and temptations drew it out. When r..lbraham had offered up his Son at the command of God, we find God prefently telling him (Gen. 22. r 2.) .Nnw Iknow tbat thou fearett me. The Lord knew that before, but he fpake fo, becaufe by that tryall he had made Abrahams holy feare knowne. Thus Davidprayed ( r 39.23.) Search me O God andknow my heart: try me andknow my thoughts. Why did David defire this of God ? he tells us at the 24th verle, And fee ifthere be any wickedway in me; yet he had fayd (v. r.) O Lord, thou haß fear- ched me and knowne me; and (v. 2. ) Thom underfi<andef my thoughts afar rf .Davidknew,thatGod knew him to a thought, and that he knew his thoughts not onlywhen they were in being, but before they were,he knew his thoughts afar eff,that is,before he had aâually thought them. God Both not fearchus to know what we are, he knows it without fearch. But he is fayd to fearch what he knowes, that he may make usknow what we didnot. So then,asDaviddefired God to fearch him, and fee whether there were anywicked way in him;fo ?obdefiredGodtoweigh him,that he might fee the goodway that was in him, or that it might ap- peare tohis friends whojudged him an hypocrite,that he was up- right ; Let God, weigh me, or let webe weighed in an even ball
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