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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 23-24
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Fifthly, Take this also; We cannot find out God in the dispensations of his Free Grace in the Gospel; •here are such mazes, such mysteries of love, and goodness, and kindness in Jesus Christ, as (though it be our duty to be searching after them, and in them, all our days, though we ought to be continually digging in those golden Mines, to find out the treasures hidden there, yet) we can never find them out. Therefore the Apostle (Ephes. 3.8) calls them, The unsearchable riches of Christ; not, unsearchable, because it is unlawful to search after them, but, unsearchable, because when we have searched to the utmost we cannot find them out; as he speaks in the close of that chapter; that we may be able to comprehend with all Saints, the height and depth, and length, and breadth, and to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge. Under all these considerations (and many, many more) God is past finding out. Whence take three brief Inferences.
Fifthly, Take this also; We cannot find out God in the dispensations of his Free Grace in the Gospel; •here are such mazes, such mysteries of love, and goodness, and kindne•s in Jesus Ch ist, as (though it be our duty to be searching after them, and in them, all our dayes, though we ought to be continually digging in those golden Mines, to find out the treasures hidden there, yet) we can never find them out. Therefore the Apostle (Ephes. 3.8) calls them, The unsearchable riches of Christ; not, unsearchable, because it is unlawful to search after them, but, unsearchable, because when we have searched to the utmost we cannot find them out; as he speaks in the close of that chapter; that we may be able to comprehend with all Saints, the height and depth, and length, and breadth, and to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge. Under all these considerations (and many, many more) God is past finding out. Whence take three brief Inferences.