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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
As if here a reason were given why God should not be called at all (as being so great he ought not) to give man an account of any of his matters, for he speaketh once or twice, he is aforehand with man.
For God speaketh.
To speak, in strict sense, as speaking is the forming up of words by an articulate voice, is proper to man; yet in Scripture God is said to speak, when or howsoever he maketh known his mind to man. Which he always doth in such a way, as is most suitable to his own greatness, with respect to mans weakness. When God giveth us any intimation of his own will, and of our duty, of what he will do for us, or of what he would have us do, ⟨p. 265⟩then he is said to speak to us. (Heb: 1.1.) God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son. God spake to the old fathers, as at many times, or by many parts, so in divers ways and manners; he delivered his mind unto the people usually by the Prophets,1 and to the Prophets in dreams and visions. The speaking of God was either immediate from himself in those dreams and visions to the Prophets, or mediate by the Prophets. And though now God doth not speak to us immediately as he did to the Prophets before Christ came in the flesh, and to the Apostles after he was come in the flesh, yet All the Prophetical and Apostolical writings are the speakings of God to us, besides what he daily speaketh to us (answerable to what is written) both inwardly by the workings of his Spirit, and outwardly by the works of his providence. For he speaketh once, &c.