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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.
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, &c.
For his eyes are upon the wayes of man, &c.
God is a Spirit, the simplicity of his Essence is his first and highest perfection, he is purely incorporeal; yet as the passions of man's mind, so the members of his body are often in Scripture attributed unto God; we read of the face of God, of the hand of God, of the ear of God, and as in many other places, so in this, of the eyes of God: Now as the ear of God notes only his power of hearing, and the hand of God his power of working, so the eye or eyes of God note only his power of seeing, knowing and discerning the ways of men. And when Elihu saith, his eyes are upon the ways of man, his meaning is only this, he clearly discerns and understands the ways of man.
God is a Spirit, the simplicity of his Essence is his first and highest perfection, he is purely incorporeal; yet as the passions of man's minde, so the members of his body are often in Scripture attributed unto God; we read of the face of God, of the hand of God, of the ear of God, and as in many other places, so in this, of the eyes of God: Now as the ear of God notes only his power of hearing, and the hand of God his power of working, so the eye or eyes of God note only his power of seeing, knowing and discerning the wayes of men. And when Elihu saith, his eyes are upon the wayes of man, his meaning is only this, he clearly discerns and understands the wayes of man.
These words, his eyes are upon the ways of man, intimate, ⟨p. 657⟩First, A present act, he doth not say, they were, or they will be upon the ways of man, but they are. Secondly, They imply as a present, so a continued act; his eyes are so upon the ways of man, that they are never off them. The eyes of God dwell, as it were, upon the ways of man: His eyes are said indeed to run to and fro through the whole earth, (