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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.
The gathering of the spirit and breath of man unto God, is but a periphrasis or circumlocution of ⟨p. 591⟩death, or of man's departure out of this life; when man was formed or created (Gen. 2.7.) it is said, God breathed into him the breath of life, and man became a living soul: And when man dyeth, his breath or spirit may be said to be gathered or returned back unto God; so then, the meaning of Elihu in this double supposition, (If he set his heart upon man, if he he gather to himself his spirit and his breath,) is clearly this, if God were once resolved, or should but say the word, that man must presently die, die he must, and that presently.
Hence Note, First, God can easily do whatsoever he hath a mind to do.
Hence Note, First, God can easily do whatsoever he hath a minde to do.
If he do put his heart upon the doing of any thing, it is done; Men often set their hearts, yea and their hands unto that which they cannot do; if men could do that which they set their hearts to do, or have a mind to do, and thereupon set their hands to do, we should have strange work in the world. 'Tis a mercy to many men, that man is often frustrated in his thoughts and purposes, in his attempts and undertakings; and 'tis a glorious mercy to all that have an interest in God, that God never lost a thought, nor can be hindered in any work he setteth his heart upon. He that can let or stop all men in their works, can work, and none shall let or stop him. What God will do, is not defecible or undoeable (if I may so express it) by any power in heaven or earth. And as God can do what he will, and ask no man leave, so he can do what he will without trouble to himself; 'tis but the resolve of his will, the turning of his hand, or the cast of his eye (all which are soon dispatched) and 'tis done. Thus God breathed out his wishes for the welfare of Israel, (