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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.
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, (Psal. 81.13.) O that my people had hearkened unto me, &c. I should soon have subdued the•r enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. As if he had said, I could and would have eased them of all their enemies, even of all that rose up against them easily, even with the turning of my hand: What is more easily done, or mo•e speedily done, then the turning of a hand? Many things are hard to man, (and indeed very few things are easy to him, except it be to sin, or to do evil, he can do evil easily) some things are not only hard, but too hard, impossible for man; but there is nothing hard, much less too hard for God, he can easily do the hardest things; yea, the hardest things ⟨p. 592⟩