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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 29-31
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Who can understand the spreadings of God? the immensity of God? the eternity, the omnipotency, the infinity of God? That's the thing Elihu chiefly aims at in all this discourse. While he poseth Job, and all men, in the natural works of God, he would convince Job, and all men, that neither he was, not any man is able to comprehend the equity and righteousness of his proceeding in the darker ways of Providence. And this he did, because Job had too often (upon the matter) called God to answer, asking why it was so? instead of a silent submission to what he did not understand, nor could see the reason of.
Who can understand the spreadings of God? the immensity of God? the eternity, the omnipotency, the infinity of God? That's the thing Elihu chiefly aimes at in all this discourse. While he poseth Job, and all men, in the natural works of God, he would convince Job, and all men, that neither he was, not any man is able to comprehend the equity and righteousness of his proceeding in the darker wayes of Providence. And this he did, because Job had too often (upon the matter) called God to answer, asking why it was so? instead of a silent submission to what he did not understand, nor could see the reason of.
Further, consider this particular in nature, The spreading of the Clouds. We see the Clouds every day, and we see their spreadings, that's common and obvious to the eye; yet (saith Elihu) who can understand these spreadings? There is a greater latitude in the Clouds than we imagine; and if we cannot fully understand the things which we see, how can we understand what we see not? Who apprehends the true greatness of the Clouds, the greatness of the Moon, the greatness of the Stars, the greatness of the Sun; all which our eyes behold? We can neither understand by our eye, nor by the rules and reports of the greatest Astronomers, the true magnitude or greatness of those heavenly visible bodies; who then can take the true dimension (if I may so speak) of things invisible? Who can understand the spreading of the Clouds?