How is it that the proceedings of God in his Justice, are not so clearly dis••erned. [ 905]
TAke a streight stick, and put it into the water, then it will seem crocked, Why because we look upon it through two mediums,* 1.1 air and water, there lies the deceptio visus, thence it is that we cannot discern aright: Thus the proceedings of God, in his Iustice, which in themselves are streight without the least obliquity seem unto us crooked; that wicked men should prosper, and good men be afflicted; that the Israelites should make the bricks, and the Egyptians dwell in the houses; that ser∣vants should ride on horse-back, and Princes go on foot; these are things that make the best Christians stagger in their judgements▪ And way,* 1.2 but because they look upon Gods proceedings though a double medium of Flesh and Spirit, that so all things seem to go cross, through indeed they go right enough: And hence it is that Gods proceedings in his justice are not so well discerned, the eyes of Man alone being not competent jugdes thereof.