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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That which God doth by the hand of the creature, is to be reckoned as his own act.
That which God doth by the hand of the creature, is to be re•koned as his own act.
He taketh away when creatures take away. It is seldom that God dealeth immediately with us in these outward providences; he sends men, stirs instruments to do what is done. But that which man doth, the Lord doth (Isa. 42.24.) Who gave Jacob to the spoilers, and Israel to the robbers? Did not I the Lord? Men spoiled and robbed them, yet it was the Lords act to send those spoilers, Did not I the Lord? As that which man doth in spirituals is the Lords act, when man converteth and saveth, it is the Lord that saveth and converteth; when man comforteth and refresheth by applying the promises, it is the Lord that comforteth and refresheth; when man gives resolution in doubts, it is the Lord that resolveth doubts; mans act is the Lords. So here, when man robbeth and spoileth us, the act is from the Lord, though the wickedness of the act is from the man. The Lord suffers men to spoil and undo us, yea the Lord orders them to spoil us: it is done not only by his permission, but by his commission; not only with his leave, but by his appointment, I will send him against an hypocritical ⟨p. 236⟩Nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets, Isa. 10.
He taketh away when creatures take away. It is seldom that God dealeth immediately with us in these outward providences; he sends men, stirs instruments to do what is done. But that which man doth, the Lord doth (Isa. 42.24