An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

There are other works of God, which cannot be searched, yet we may and ought to search them. It is our duty to study them, though we cannot find them. We may search and find many of the works of God, with our senses; there are others which we cannot find, though we search for them, with our reason and understanding. As some parts of the word of God (2 Pet. 3. 16.) So some part of his works are so hard to be understood, that unstable men wrest them to their own destruction. The mind of God is legible in very many of his works, and we may read them without a Comment or Interpreter. Other of his works are mysterious and enigmatical, very riddles, insomuch, that if an ordinary man looking on them, should be questioned, Understandest thou what thou seest; he must answer, as the Eunuch did Phillip, How can I except some man teach me. And these works are unsearchable, two ways.

There are other works of God, which cannot be searched, yet we may and ought to search them. It is our duty to study them, though we cannot finde them. We may search and finde many of the workes of God, with our sences; there are others which we cannot finde, though we search for them, with our reason and understanding. As some parts of the word of God (2 Pet. 3. 16.) So some part of his works are so hard to be understood, that unstable men wrest them to their own destruction. The minde of God is legible in very many of his works, and we may read them without a Comment or Interpreter. Other of his works are mysterious and aenigmaticall, very riddles, insomuch, that if an ordinary man looking on them, should be questioned, Ʋnderstandest thou what thou seest; he must answer, as the Eunuch did Phillip, How can I except some man teach me. And these works are unsearchable, two ways.

First, in regard of the manner of doing; we cannot find out the ways and contrivances of Gods work. His ways are in the ⟨p. 247⟩deep, and his foot-steps are not known, saith the Psalmist, that is, the way which God goes to the accomplishing of his ends, are oftentimes like steps upon the water, which leave no impression or track behind them.