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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 › Verse 26
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, If God be great, then we may infer for consolation.
First, Be not discouraged in prayer when you have great things to ask, when your wants are great, and your necessities urgent, when you must have great supplies, when small matters will not serve your turn (In many ca•es, it is not a little help, it is not a small matter which will do the thing which we sue unto God for) now here is a mighty ground of comfort for us, if we want great things, we have a great God to go unto; and how great soever our wants are, they are all but small to the greatness of that God unto whom we go (Ephes. 3.20.) He is able to do exceeding abundantly above what we ask or think; and not only above what we actually ask and think, but indeed, beyond what possibly we can ask or think, above what we are able to ask or think. Therefore let us never be discouraged in prayer, because of the greatness of the things that we have to ask of God.
Secondly, Be not discouraged, though as your wants, so your dangers and your troubles are great. How great soever the danger is you would be delivered from, God is greater, to whom you come for deliverance: And therefore when a great Mountain stood in the way of the deliverance of the people of God (Zech. 4.7.) the Prophet speaks in his language, Who art thou? O great Mountain, thou shalt become a Plain before Zerubbabel; that is, before the power of that God in whom Zerubbabel trusts and whose work Zerubbabel carries on. Hence that holy confidence (Psal. 66.3.) Through the greatness of thy power, thine enemies shall submit themselves to thee, or, they shall yield feigned obedience, as we put in the margin, which some render thus, through the greatness of thy power, thine enemies shall be found liars. All the readings magnify the g eatness of God. Through the g etness of thy power thine enemies, the enemies of thy people, shall submit, they shall be found liars, they shall yield feigned obedience, they shall not be able with all their greatness to stand i out against the great