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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
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He did not say, wouldest thou have me, or can I, forgive such a debt as this? What, ten thousand talents? He forgave it as if it had been a debt of two mites. Thus, and many other ways we may improve this first Attribute of God, mentioned in the text, his greatness, both as to our direction in duty, and consolation in every extremity. Behold God is great, And we know him not.
He did not say, wouldest thou have me, or can I, forgive such a debt as this? What, ten thousand talents? He forgave it as if it had been a debt of two mites. Thus, and many other wayes we may improve this first Attribute of God, mentioned in the text, his greatness, both as to our direction in duty, and consolatition in every extreamity. Behold God is great, And we know him not.
That's the second thing. The words are plain, but the tense is difficult; for it may be objected, Do not we know God? Elihu said but just now, in the very verse before the text, Magnify his works which men behold, every man may see it, man may behold it afar off? Surely if the works of God may be known and seen by every one, God himself may be known, for he is known in his works, as the Apostle argues (Rom. 1.20.) The things which he hath made make him known: how is this then said, That God is great and we know him not? Doth not the Prophet in denouncing that dreadful curse (Jer. 10.25.) Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that know thee not, thereby intimate, that all the people of God know him? Doth not Christ tell us (John 17.3.) This is eternal life, to know thee the only true God. They who have eternal life, must have the knowledge of the true God. But all true believers have eternal life already in hope, and shall have it shortly in hand, therefore they know God. The Promise of the New Covenant is (Heb. 11.) They shall all know me from the least to the greatest; that is, all my Covenant-people shall know me. How is it then said, God is great, and we know him not? When Paul was at Athens, he sound an Altar with that Inscription, To the unknown God (