A35537:1931
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 12-13
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Yet I conceive there is somewhat further in these wo•ds, for mercy, or in mercy and free benignity; which may intimate thus much to us, That even the Rain from the Clouds, and fruits of the earth, are not given us of desert, but of free favour and mercy.
Yet I conceive there is somwhat further in these wo•ds, for mercy, or in mercy and free benignity; which may intimate thus much to us, That even the Rain from the Clouds, and fruits of the earth, are not given us of desert, but of free favour and mercy.
They come for mercy, or as a mercy. God doth not seed the World because he owes them any thing, but because he is merciful; we do not oblige him to give us a drop of rain, or a morsel of bread; sweet showers from Heaven, and plentiful harvests on Earth, are acts of grace, mercy, favour, and good-will unto man. God payeth men wages in nothing but in punishment, wh•n God punisheth, he pays wages, that which is deserved; if God send the Clouds for Correction, we have what our sins have procured and brought upon us; but if he send plenty, we have mercy, a gracious bounty or largess from the hand of God; our daily bread is not pay nor wages, but reward and mercy, much less is that which is more or beyond our daily bread. We by sin deserve that the Heavens should be (as the Lord th•eaten'd his ancient people in case of disobedience) as b•ass, and the Earth as iron; but we have not deserved that the Heavens should drop fatness, and the Earth yield her increase; this is mercy. Not only are we to look upon the Pardon of sin as a mercy, and Redemption by the blood of Christ as a mercy, and Justification through his Righteousness as mercy, and eternal life as a mercy, or coming from ⟨p. 521⟩mercy and free grace; but we are to receive every bit of bread as coming to us through mercy, freely, and not upon any account of our own workings or deservings. And if we cannot deserve a shower, no nor a drop of rain from the Clouds, if we cannot deserve a Crop of Corn from the Earth, then surely we cannot deserve grace or peace from God, or eternal life and happiness with God.