An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Only what we cannot attain, either by sense or reason, we may understand by faith, as the Apostle saith, We do that the worlds were made by the Word of God (Heb. 11.3.) Who is able, any other way than by believing, to enter into those springs, or walk in the search of those depths?

Onely what we cannot attain, either by sense or reason, we may understand by faith, as the Apostle saith, We do that the worlds were made by the Word of God (Heb. 11.3.) Who is able, any other way than by believing, to enter into those springs, or walk in the search of those depths?

Secondly, Learn this from it; There is nothing a secret unto God.

That which here is denied to Job, is to be affirmed of God. Job knew not those secrets, but God knew them. Job himself said (chap. 9.8.) God treadeth upon the waves (or as the Hebrew is, the heights) of the sea. Here the Lord intimateth that he walketh in the depth of the sea: Both set forth his glory. God ⟨p. 150⟩commands from top to bottom, he treads upon the waves aloft; he walks in the depths below, nothing can escape either his Power or his Eye. It is the sole privilege of God to walk in the search of the sea, that is, to find out and plainly to discern the most secret things. And by him the most unsearchable depths are searched out, or rather, are known to him without search. He knoweth even the depth of mans heart, which is the greatest depth in the world, next to the depth of his own heart. God enters into the springs of that sea, the Sea of mans heart, and walketh in the search of that depth. There are innumerable springs in the heart of man, which bubble up, and send forth their streams of good or evil continually; all which the Lord sees more plainly than we see any thing that is done above ground, or in the open light. Moses doth not only report (