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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
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Secondly, Elihu repeated this again, because 'tis such a truth, as no man can too much, no nor enough weigh and consider the value and worth of it. Now, that which cannot be too often nor too much thought of, cannot (if rules of prudence be observed) be too much or too often spoken of. There is scarce any man who hath not sometimes at least indirectly and obliquely some hard thoughts of the proceedings of God, either in reference to himself or to others; Nor is there any thing that we have more temptations about, then that, surely, we are not in all things rightly dealt with, and that the dispensations of God are not so even, as they might. These sinful suspicions are daily moving and fluctuating in the heart of man, and therefore this opposite principle ought to be fastened and fixed there to the utmost, that the will and works of God are all just and righteous, yea that his will is the rule of all righteous workings; or, that as whatsoever is done in this world, is done by the disposure of God, so God (though the thing be evil and unjust) is just and good in the disposure of it. Therefore unless we resist or contradict the will of God, we must say, whatsoever comes to pass, comes righteously to pass, because it comes to pass by the determinate will and counsel of God.
Secondly, Elihu repeated this againe, because 'tis such a truth, as no man can too much, no nor enough weigh and consider the value and worth of it. Now, that which cannot be too often nor too much thought of, cannot (if rules of prudence be observed) be too much or too often spoken of. There is scarce any man who hath not sometimes at least indirectly and obliquely some hard thoughts of the proceedings of God, either in reference to himselfe or to others; Nor is there any thing that we have more temptations about, then that, surely, we are not in all things rightly dealt with, and that the dispensations of God are not so even, as they might. These sinfull suspicions are dayly moving and fluctuating in the heart of man, and therefore this opposite principle ought to be fastened and fixed there to the utmost, that the will and workes of God are all just and righteous, yea that his will is the rule of all righteous workings; or, that as whatsoever is done in this world, is done by the disposure of God, so God (though the thing be evill and unjust) is just and good in the disposure of it. Therefore unlesse we resist or contradict the will of God, we must say, whatsoever comes to passe, comes righteously to passe, because it comes to passe by the determinate will and counsell of God.