An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

God is never a whit the less Righteous, because it doth not appear to us that he is so.

God is never a whit the lesse Righteous, because it doth not appear to us that he is so.

Although thou sayest, thou shalt not see him, yet Judgement is before him. The ways of God are often secret, but none of them are unjust; Judgement is before him, even then, when we think i• is farthest off from him. Therefore, if we will give God the glory of governing the world, and of ordering all our personal conditions, we must not measure him by the things we see, or which appear; for we cannot see the measure of his Judgement by what appears, that which appears to us is not his Judgement, something else is his judgement, and he in the close will make his judgement clear to all men, he will make it appear that judgment is his, though what his judgement is doth not appear. The mis-apprehensions, or mis-constructions of men do not at all retard or stop the righteousness of God, as the Apostle speaks in another case (Rom. 3.3.) Shall the unbelief of man make the Faith of God (that is, the Faithfulness of God) of none effect? God forbid; God will be Faithful and True, though all the world be Unbelievers and Liars. Now, as the unbelief of man cannot make the Faithfulness of God of none effect; so our not believing that Judgement proceeds, or our saying it is delayed, does ⟨p. 111⟩not at all take off God from righteousness in doing Judgement; he is doing Judgement righteously, whatever apprehensions men have of his doings. Judgement is before him; Therefore trust thou in him.

Although thou sayest, thou shalt not see him, yet Judgement is before him. The wayes of God are often secret, but none of them are unjust; Judgement is before him, even then, when we think i• is farthest off from him. Therefore, if we will give God the glory of governng the world, and of ordering all our personal conditions, we must not measure him by the things we see, or which appear; for we cannot see the measure of his Judgement by what appears, that which appears to us is not his Judgement, something else is his judgement, and he in the close will make his judgement clear to all men, he will make it appear that judgment is his, though what his judgement is doth not appear. The mis-apprehensions, or mis-constructions of men do not at all retard or stop the righteousnesse of God, as the Apostle speaks in another case (