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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 word is plural, not way, but ways; which shows the extensiveness of the sight or knowledge of God: The word being put indefinitely, is to be taken universally: His eyes are not confined to this or that object, to this or that place, to this or that person, but his eyes look over all, His eyes are upon the ways of man.
The word is plural, not way, but wayes; which shews the extensiveness of the sight or knowledge of God: The word being put indefinitely, is to be taken universally: His eyes are not confined to this or that object, to this or that place, to this or that person, but his eyes look over all, His eyes are upon the wayes of man.
Yet further, the ways of man may be distinguished; First, As they are either internal or external. The internal ways of man, are the ways of his heart, as the Prophet hath it, (Isa. 57.17.) He went on frowardly in the way of his heart. And these ways of the heart, our inward ways are, first, our thoughts, what we imagine and conceive; secondly, our affections, what we love, and what we hate, what we rejoice in, and what we mourn for, declare the way of our hearts. Thirdly, The ways of the heart are a man's purposes, resolutions, and intentions what to do. Fourthly, ⟨p. 658⟩The ways of the heart are man's designs, or his aims, what he drives at, or proposeth as his end in all that he doth. In this latitude we are to understand the present Text; when Elihu saith, the eyes of God are upon the ways of man, remember they are upon his thoughts, upon his affections, upon his purposes, upon his designs and aims, all these are before the Lord; as it is said of Christ, (Joh• 2.25.) He needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man; that is, both the state of his heart, and all the movings of it. And if the Lord's eyes be upon the internal ways of man, then certainly they are upon the external ways of man; if he knoweth what work the heart is at or about, certainly he knoweth what the hand is at or about. He that knoweth which way the mind goeth, cannot but know which way the foot goeth. His eyes are upon the external ways of man, but 'tis his chief glory that his eyes are upon the internal ways of man, (