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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.
Fourthly, His power is universal, in reference to time; 'tis never out, nor shall ever end; he is King immortal, and King eternal, his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom. The power of God is an universal power in all these considerations: His power of Governing is of the same extent, as his power of creating was; that which he created at once, he governs always. He did not set up the fabric of this world, and then leave it to it self, but he preserveth and ordereth all things in it. The well-being, the orderly being of the creature, is as much of God as the being of it.
Fourthly, His power is universall, in reference to time; 'tis never out, nor shall ever end; he is King immortall, and King eternall, his Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome. The power of God is an universall power in all these considerations: His power of Governing is of the same extent, as his power of creating was; that which he created at once, he governes alwayes. He did not set up the fabrick of this world, and then leave it to it selfe, but he preserveth and ordereth all things in it. The wel-being, the orderly being of the creature, is as much of God as the being of it.
Some say, God made the world at first, and set all the wheels of it a-going, but now things go on by chance, by fortune, or by accident, at least particular events are not under his government, but come to pass as the wisdom or folly of men is most active in the production of them.
Some say, God made the world at first, and set all the wheeles of it a-going, but now things goe on by chance, by fortune, or by accident, at least particular events are not under his government, but come to passe as the wisdome or folly of men is most active in the production of them.
I answer, to set up blind fortune, and chance, yea or the wit and policy of man, as governing the world, is to set up other Gods in the world; if chance and fortune, or the wit of man, govern any part of the world, then they had a part in making the world. If you divide one power, you divide the other. For those invisible things of God, his eternal power and God-head, are as much or as evidently seen, in the things which are done, as in the things which are made. 'Tis true indeed God useth many hands in governing, ordering, and disposing the things of this world. The Princes of this world, are eminently his hand, but God doth