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An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
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Thirdly, Let not God regard it. We may observe,
That the blessing and comfort of every day, depends upon the care and respect of God to it. The eyes of all things look up unto God. Why do all things look up unto God. It is that God may look down upon them: If God look down upon the creature, then the creature revives and is refreshed; there are influences from the eye and sight of God, which are able to quicken the deadest times, and make glad the saddest hearts: As we pray for and humbly expect every day our daily bread from God, so every day doth (as it were) expect a daily blessing from God, which is his regarding of our days.
That the blessing and comfort of every day, depends upon the care and respect of God to it. The eyes of all things looke up unto God. Why doe all things looke up unto God. It is that God may looke downe upon them: If God looke downe upon the creature, then the creature revives and is refreshed; there are influences from the eye and sight of God, which are able to quicken the deadest times, and make glad the saddest hearts: As we pray for and humbly expect every day our daily bread from God, so every day doth (as it were) expect a daily blessing from God, which is his regarding of our dayes.
It is the greatest evil that can befall the creature, when God regards it not; all the blessings of the creature are bound up (like Jacobs life in the life of Benjamin) in that respect which God beareth to them, and in the care which he hath of them. The Apostle Paul ▪ disputing with the Philosophers of Athens, shows the state of that time, which they accounted such a golden-age, (Acts 17.30.) The time of that ignorance God winked at,