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

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! ⟨p. 359⟩David was not satisfied in doing the duty of the text alone, but must associate others with him in it. (Ps. 34.3.) O let us magnify the Lord together; that's a blessed consort, the consort of the blessed for ever. The whole work and reward too, of Saints in heaven is, and eternally will be, to magnify God; and they have the beginnings of that work and reward, who are sincerely magnifying his work here on earth. God hath magnified his word (in all things) above his name (Psal. 138.2.) and the reason is, because his works answer or are the fulfilling of his word to the praise of his glorious name. Now if God hath magnified his word by his works then we must magnify his works, or him in his works, For wherein doth God magnify his word but in his works? He hath magnified his work by bringing his word forth in his works: Surely then if God hath magnified his word by bringing it forth in his works, then 'tis our duty to magnify the works of God, which are the product, effect and answer of his word.

This is the poynt chiefly intended by Elihu in his present discourse with Job; This containeth the sum and substance of the whole Text. To magnifie the work of God is so necessary, so indispensible 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, (