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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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Sixthly, Then, let us not be lifted up in our own natural wisdom and reason, he that would be wise, must become a fool, (1 Cor. 3.18.) until we see our own wisdom folly, we cannot attain the wisdom of God, or Godly wisdom.
Sixthly, Then, let us not be lifted up in our owne naturall wisdome and reason, he that would be wise, must become a foole, (1 Cor. 3.18.) untill we see our owne wisdome folly, we cannot attaine the wisdome of God, or Godly wisdome.
Seventhly, This shows us the reason of the various kinds, and several measures of gifts among the sons of men. Men differ not more in the measures and degrees of their outward estates, worldly riches, titles and honours, then they do in the measures and degrees of their inward abilities, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding: men differ not more in the feature and figure of their faces, then in the furniture of their minds. One hath five talents, another two, a third but one. And as the various degrees of the same gift, so diversities of gifts are from the sovereign pleasure of God. The Apostle is large and very distinct in this matter (1 Cor. 12.4, 8, 9, 11.) There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same S••rit, to another prophecy, to another discerning of Spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, &c. But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. It is only the will of the Spirit, the will of God which makes this division and diversification of gifts among men. And as the Apostle showeth here the rise or spring of all to be from God, so he had showed that the reason and intendment of all this is the benefit of men (v. 7.) The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. What ever your gift is God hath given it for profit and use. One hath skill in sciences, another in languages, one is more