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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 36 › Verses 24-25
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Secondly, There are invisible works of God, which we cannot behold, but must believe, and can know only by faith; such are his spiritual works, or what he works upon or in the spirits of the children of men: These are written in too small a letter for the eye of Nature to behold; none can see them or behold them but by an eye of faith, or spiritual understanding. The works of regeneration and sanctification (for which God is wonderfully to be magnified) may be seen or beheld in the fruits and effects of them, in those they are very visible, but they cannot be seen in themselves. The past and future providences of God cannot now be seen by the eye, but by faith they may, and we ought to believe that such things were wrought, and shall be wrought; we are to receive the testimony given by faithful History, that such things were done, though we never saw the doing of them, and we are to receive the sure word of Prophecy that such things shall be done, though we live not to see the doing of them. The work of God intended here by Elihu is a visible work, therefore it must fall among his providences.
Vers. 25. Every man may see it.
1That is, say some, every wise and understanding man; but rather, any man, (as was touched at the former verse) if he be but a man of common understanding, if he have •ny spark of Reason left in him unquenched, if he have his eyes in his head, he may see it; the eye of every one who will not shut his eyes against the light, must needs see it. We say, Who so blind as they that will not see.
1That is, say some, every wise and understanding man; but rather, any man, (as was touched at the former verse) if he be but a man of common understanding, if he have ny spark of Reason left in him unquencht, if he have his eyes in his head, he may see it; the eye of every one who will not shut his eyes against the light, must needs see it. We say, Who so blind as they that will not see.