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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.
Elihu doth not determine who or what these others are; God may make his choice where and of whom he pleaseth, in what family or tribe he pleaseth, to set up in the place of those mighty men, whom he, at any time, is provoked to break in pieces. The words are plain; Note only two things from them.
First, God hath as absolute a power to set up, as to pull down when and whom he pleaseth.
(Psal. 75.6, 7.) Promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, Nor from the South, but God is the Judge, he putteth down one, and setteth up another. The same Sovereignty of God is asserted (Dan. 4.17.) To the intent that the living may know, that the most high ruleth in the Kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. God sometimes setteth up those that are base in their conditions or manners for a scourge or punishment; sometimes he setteth up those that are base in their state or condition, being either men of meanest birth, or men laid lowest by affliction, (Psal. 113.7, 8.) He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; that he may set him with Princes, even with the Princes of his people. No man is so poor, but the Lord can enrich him; no man so low, but he can raise him up. He can bring a man from a dunghill to a Palace, and from the dust to a Throne. Saul was cast down, God broke him in pieces, though a mighty man, and set up David in his stead; He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds, from following the Ewes great with young, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his Inheritance: (