An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

First, There is […] ••d magnifying of the work of God, when we think highly […] it; thus did the Virgin in her song (Luke 1.46.) My soul doth magnify the Lord. Her heart was raised up, and stretched out in high thoughts of God.

First, There is 〈…〉 ••d magnifying of the work of God, when we think highly 〈…〉 it; thus did the Virgin in her song (Luke 1.46.) My soul doth magnifie the Lord. Her heart was raised up, and stretched out in high thoughts of God.

Secondly, There is an outward magnifying of the work of God. To speak highly of his work is to magnify his work; to live holily and fruitfully is to magnify his work. We cannot make any addition to the work of God, there is no such magnifying of it; but we must strive to give the works of God their full dimension, and not lessen them at all. As we must not diminish the number of his works, so we must not diminish the just weight and worth of them. There is such a charge of God to the Prophet about his word (Jer. 26.2.) Go tell the people all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word. Deliver thy message in words at length, or in the full length of those words in which it was delivered unto thee. We then magnify the wo•k of God, when we diminish not a tittle. As we cannot add any thing to it, so we must neither abate nor conceal any thing of it. To magnify, is not to make the works of God great, but to declare and set forth the greatness of them; ⟨p. 351⟩that's the magnifying here especially intended. Remember that thou magnify his works.