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

If the very blind may see them, how sinfully blind are they, who see them not! The works of God should be sought out, (Psal. 111.2, 4.) If they lie in corners, yet they are to be sought out, and they are sought out of them that have pleasure therein. If God should hide his work under ground, if God should put his Candle under a bushel (as Christ saith men do not, Mat. 5.) yet 'tis our duty to seek it out, and set it upon a Candlestick, that all may behold it, and praise him for it. Now if the most hidden works of God must be sought out, that they may be magnified, surely then, when the works of God stand forth and offer themselves to our view and we cannot tell which way to draw our eyes from them, how great a sin is it, not to behold them, not to give him the glory of them.

Seventhly, Observe; To magnify the works of God is mans duty, yea it is a most necessary and indispensable duty.

Seventhly, Observe; To magnifie the works of God is mans duty, yea it is a most necessary and indispensible duty.

This is the point chiefly intended by Elihu in his present discourse with Job; This containeth the sum and substance of the whole Text. To magnify the work of God is so necessary, so indispensable a duty, that A remember is put upon it, lest at any time it should slip from us. The Lord knowing how great, how weighty, how comfortable, how profitable a duty it is to keep the Rest day, prefixeth this word, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, (Exod. 20.8.) I might give instance from several other Scriptures, importing those duties which have a memento put upon them to be of great necessity, and that the Lord will not bear with us if we lay them by, or neglect the constant performance of them. To forget any duty is very sinful, how much more those which we are specially warned to remember that we do them!