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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.
First, Man as to his bodily making, or the making of his body, is the workmanship of God.
As we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus to good (or ⟨p. 163⟩holy) works, (Eph: 2.10.) so we are his workmanship created to common and natural works. We have heard of that divine consultation or resolution rather (Gen: 1.26.) Let us make man: The Father made man, and the Son made man, and the holy Spirit made man; The Father by the Son, through the holy Spirit made man. What a glorious, what a mighty power is put forth for the production of such a poor creature as man is! And this is true, not only of the first man in his creation, but of every man since the creation, there is a concurrence of a divine power and workmanship in the setting up of man as man. (Psal: 100.3.) It is he that made us, and not we our selves; God doth not only make us holy men, but he makes us men. Hence David (Psal: 13.9-14.) I am fearfully, and wonderfully made. He speaks there of the frame of his body, though that be much more true in reference to the admirable frame of the new creature which is set up in the soul; so, indeed we are fearfully and wonderfully made. (Isa: 27.11.) This is a people of no understanding (But did God ever make a people without natural understanding? Surely no, but they were a people without spiritual understanding, they did not understand what the mind, and meaning of God was, and what their own duty was; Such are a people of no understanding, how wise soever they are in their own eyes, or in the eyes of the world, what followeth) Therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour; That is, God who made and formed them, both in their natural capacity as men, as also in their civill and spiritual capacity as a Church and Nation, or as a National Church (understanding it of the Jews) will not have mercy on them, will not favour them. We read the same Church at once looking to God as their maker and most earnestly moving and imploring his pity upon the same account. (Isa: 64.8, 9.) But now O Lord, thou art our father, we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy hand;