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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 37 › Verses 3-5
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Again, from our reading, Great things doth he, which we cannot comprehend,
Note; God doth great things that are beyond the greatest of our apprehensions, such things, as after all our study we are short in, and short of.
As it is our sin that we take not pains enough to know the great ⟨p. 467⟩things that God doth; so God doth things so great, that when we have done our best, or, after all our pains, we cannot know them fully: though we know their outside, yet little of their inside, though we know their effects, yet little of their causes and contrivances. To know a thing, is to know it in the causes of it, 1to see the reason of it. A man knoweth not the things that he knows, till he seeth the reason of what he knows. How little doth man know of, or see into the reason of the great things that God doth? How little do we see of the marvels that are in the works of God? The love of God passeth knowledge (Ephes. 3.19.) Though we labour to know it (and 'tis our sin that we labour not more to know it) yet we cannot, it surpasseth all our knowledge. And as that love of God, which is the first mover of all the good and great things that he doth for his people, •••seth our knowledge, so the things that are the effects of that love to his people are so great, that they pass our knowledge. Hence we may infer these two duties.
As it is our sin that we take not paines enough to know the great ⟨p. 467⟩