2. To admonish us, never to shut our eyes against the light of the truth.
3. To exhort us, on the contrary to use all our endeavour and give all diligence to gaine knowledge, especially in those things that pertaine to our own practise and life.
Doctrine 2. It makes verie much for the taking away or lessening of our ignorance, to look upon the works of God that are past, that from them we may gather the works that are to come.
This is gathered from the comparison that is here made, verse 5,6,7.
Reason. Because the works of God are as looking-glasses, wherein Gods sufficiency and efficiency are proposed unto us to behold.
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, not to look slightly upon the works of God, nor to read the histories of them as we read humane histories, but so, that we may alwayes behold God in them.
Doctrine 3. Those publick works of God, the creation, preservation, and destruction of the world, first by water, secondly by fire, are often to be meditated upon, and compared one with the other.
This is gathered from the same comparison.
Reason. Because God hath proposed those, as very remarkable arguments, to worke some sense at least of religion in mens minds.
Vse. This may serve to exhort us, to exercise our selves in these meditations, which God hath commended unto all sorts of men.