A35535:1643
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.
Thus we see the spring of the sick mans recovery, it is from the graciousness of God, and we see the means of it, God gives a warrant to his messenger, saying, Deliver him from going down to the pit; But what is the procuring or meritorious cause of this deliverance? As the Text hath showed us the first moving cause, The grace of God, so it shows us the meritorious cause, by which his deliverance is procured; Things are so ordered in the Covenant of grace, that though the Lord acts with infinite freeness, yet he hath appointed and ordered a way in which alone he will do, what he freely doth. This is expressed in the last clause of the verse, Fer I have found a ransom.
Thus we see the spring of the sick mans recovery, it is from the graciousness of God, and we see the meanes of it, God gives a warrant to his messenger, saying, Deliver him from going down to the pit; But what is the procuring or meritorious cause of this deliverance? As the Text hath shewed us the first moving cause, The grace of God, so it shewes us the meritorious cause, by which his deliverance is procured; Things are so ordered in the Covenant of grace, that though the Lord acts with infinite freeness, yet he hath appointed and ordered a way in which alone he will doe, what he freely doth. This is expressed in the last clause of the verse, Fer I have found a ransome.
But where did God find it? certainly in his own bosom, in his own heart; Jesus Christ came out of the bosom of the Father, there he was, God found him in and with himself; God did not find the ransom by chance, nor did he find it by advice and consultation with others, but he found it in himself, in his own infinite wisdom and goodness; that is, he contrived it, he invented i• there. This rare, this most excellent thing, a ransom, is the Lords own invention. I have found it, I know how to do this man good, I know how to save him, and do my own honour and Justice no hurt, no wrong: my honour is saved,1 my Justice is satisfied in doing it. I have found a ransom.