An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Yet this is not to be taken strictly, as if man did not at all perceive or understand what God doth. Job in the former context gave us a large account of the works of God, what wonders he had done. The Saints find out some of Gods doings in the world, though the blind world see not any thing he doth. But he speaks comparatively; The Lord passeth on, and we perceive it not; that is, it is little of God that we perceive; it is little of the workings of God that we see at the best. There are many persons who do not see him at all, and many works that are not seen at all by any person.¹ And they, the eyes of whose understandings are anointed to see most clearly, are not able to see all that God doth, None can see all, some will not see what they may (Isa. 26.10.) Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see it; and in the former verse, In the land of uprightness, will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord. That which good men see is but little, and evil men see nothing. So that, as the Lord goeth altogether invisibly in his essence, so mostly in his actions; man sees but few things of the many, and little of the great things which God doth.²

Yet this is not to be taken strictly, as if man did not at all perceive or understand what God doth. Job in the former context gave us a large account of the works of God, what wonders he had done. The Saints finde out some of Gods doings in the world, though the blinde world see not any thing he doth. But he speaks comparatively; The Lord passeth on, and we perceive it not; that is, it is little of God that we perceive; it is little of the workings of God that we see at the best. There are many persons who do not see him at all, and many works that are not seen at all by any person.¹ And they, the eies of whose understandings are anointed to see most clearly, are not able to see all that God doth, None can see all, some will not see what they may (Isa. 26.10.) Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see it; and in the former verse, In the land of uprightnesse, will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord. That which good men see is but little, and evil men see nothing. So that, as the Lord goeth altogether invisibly in his essence, so mostly in his actions; man sees but few things of the many, and little of the great things which God doth.