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…

First, Some conceive that Job persisteth in the same matter handled, in the words immediately foregoing, exalting the knowledge of God concerning man upon this ground, because God made man. Thou knowest that I am not wicked. How did Job know that? He must needs know what man is, who made man, Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; forasmuch as I am thy work, a piece of thy framing, surely, thou knowest what thou hast framed: thou who hadst knowledge enough to make me, hast a perfect knowledge of what thou hast made me. We may join it also with the later clause, None can deliver out of thine hand; Why? Thine hands have made me and fashioned me. Is it possible for the work to deliver it self out of the hand of him who wrought it? Is that which is formed too strong for him that formed it, when as the same hand which gave it form, gave it strength? We find this argument as to the former part (Psal. 94.9.) where from the work of God in our natural constitution, the holy pen-man proves the fullness of his knowledge concerning us in every condition; Understand ye brutish (he speaks to men, who acted more like beasts then men) He that planted the ear, Shall he not hear? He that formed the eye shall he not see? As if he had said, He that made the ear, is all hearing; and he who formed the eye, is all eye, all sight. The argument holds strong from Gods power in forming man, to his power of knowing man, and to his power of disposing man.¹ That's the first way of dependence.

First, Some conceive that Job persisteth in the same matter handled, in the words immediately foregoing, exalting the knowledge of God concerning man upon this ground, because God made man. Thou knowest that I am not wicked. How did Job know that? He must needs know what man is, who made man, Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; forasmuch as I am thy work, a piece of thy framing, surely, thou knowest what thou hast framed: thou who hadst knowledge enough to make me, hast a perfect knowledge of what thou hast made me. We may joyn it also with the later clause, None can deliver out of thine hand; Why? Thine hands have made me and fashioned me. Is it possible for the work to deliver it self out of the hand of him who wrought it? Is that which is formed too strong for him that formed it, when as the same hand which gave it form, gave it strength? We finde this argument as to the former part (