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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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Fourthly, To magnify the work of God, is to look upon his work what-ever it is, not only as having justice in it towards all men, but as good and being full of goodness to his People. Possibly it may be very hard work, yet we must bring our hearts to say it is good work, good to and for the Israel of God. Thus the holy man of old magnified the work of God (Psal. 73.1.) Truly God is good to Israel. This he spake while he was bemoaning himself under very afflicting providences. We magnify the afflicting works of God, when we submit to them as just, much more when we embrace them as good. And it was very much the design of Elihu to bring Job off from disputing about the evils with which God had so long exercised him, to a ready yeeldance that they were good for him, and that in all the Lord intended nothing but his good.
Fourthly, To magnifie the work of God, is to look upon his work what-ever it is, not only as having justice in it towards all men, but as good and being full of goodness to his People. Possibly it may be very hard work, yet we must bring our hearts to say it is good work, good to and for the Israel of God. Thus the holy man of old magnified the work of God (Psal. 73.1.) Truly God is good to Israel. This he spake while he was bemoaning himself under very afflicting providences. We magnifie the afflicting works of God, when we submit to them as just, much more when we embrace them as good. And it was very much the design of Elihu to bring Job off from disputing about the evils with which God had so long exercised him, to a ready yeeldance that they were good for him, and that in all the Lord intended nothing but his good.
Fifthly, To magnify the work of God, is to answer the end of it. Every work is magnified when it receiveth its end; if a work be done; yet if it have not its effect, if it bring not that about to which it was designed, the worker receives no honour from it, nor is the work honoured. To work in vain, is a debasing, a lessening of any work, not a magnifying of it. The Apostle was afraid to bestow his labour in preaching the Gospel in vain. When people still continue in their blindness and unbelief, &c. this layeth the preaChing of the Gospel low; but when souls are convinced and converted, and come flocking in, then the Gospel is magnified, and the word of the Lord glorified, as the Apostle prayed it might (