A35537:1769
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 6-8
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God by extraordinary Snows and Rains stops men from their work. But what, Is it that they should be idle? No, but that they may know his work. Whose work?
God by extraordinary Snowes and Raines stops men from their work. But what, Is it that they should be idle? No, but that they may know his work. Whose work?
Some understand it of mans own work; As if the meaning were this; God stops men a while from further or present work, that they may take a view of their past works; or he takes them off from their civil works and employments, that they may employ themselves in considering their moral works; as the Prophet admonished the Jews (Isa. 1.5.) Now therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. Another Prophet reproved them for the neglect of this duty (Jer. 8.6.) No man saith, what have I done? The Lord often brings his people to hard sufferings that they may know their own doings or works. This is a profitable sense; yet I rather conceive that the work here intended is Gods work, and so I shall prosecute the words, That all men may know his work.
Some understand it of mans own work; As if the meaning were this; God stops men a while from further or present work, that they may take a view of their past works; or he takes them off from their civil works and employments, that they may employ themselves in considering their moral works; as the Prophet admonished the Jews (Isa. 1.5.) Now therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, consider your wayes. Another Prophet reproved them for the neglect of this duty (Jer. 8.6.) No man saith, what have I done? The Lord often brings his people to hard sufferings that they may know their own doings or works. This is a profitable sense; yet I rather conceive that the work here intended is Gods work, and so I shall prosecute the words, That all men may know his work.