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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.
There are two things here to be enquired; First, what we are to understand by the Spirit of God, to whom Elihu attributes his making. Secondly, Why doth Elihu attribute his making to the Spirit of God? To the former question, I answer; First, negatively, that by the Spirit of God we are not to understand a power or virtue put forth by God, in which sense we sometimes read the Spirit of God in Scripture. But by the Spirit of God here, we are to understand God the Spirit. In which sense we read (Gen: 1.2.) The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. As also (Math: 3.16.) He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him; that is, upon Jesus Christ, baptized by John in Jordan.
There are two things here to be enquired; First, what we are to understand by the Spirit of God, to whom Elihu attributes his making. Secondly, Why doth Elihu attribute his making to the Spirit of God? To the former question, I answer; First, negatively, that by the Spirit of God we are not to understand a power or vertue put forth by God, in which sence we sometimes read the Spirit of God in Scripture. But by the Spirit of God here, we are to understand God the Spirit. In which sence we read (Gen: 1.2.) The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. As also (Math: 3.16.) He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him; that is, upon Jesus Christ, baptized by John in Jordan.
The second question is, Why doth Elihu attribute his making to the Spirit of God? Regeneration or our new-making is properly the work of the Spirit, but is Creation, or our natural constitution his work also? Saith not Moses? (Gen: 2.7.) The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the earth; Jehovah Elohim formed man. And if we look into the first of John ver: 2, 3. we read thus; In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God; the same was in the beginning with God, all things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made, that was made. There our maker (for the making of all things is attributed to him) is the Son, the second person in the holy Trinity, or the Word, who (as it followeth in that Chapter) was made flesh. Why then doth Elihu here ascribe his making to the Spirit? And how are these Scriptures reconciled?