An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

There's something in that expression very considerable; Elihu doth not say, I will ascribe righteousness to God, but speaks of God under that relation, His Maker. ¹The word signifies not only in General to make or create, of which work Moses treats in the first of Genesis, but it notes the doing of a thing, first, with diligence, secondly, with skill & great intention of mind, 'tis to draw all our spirits together in a work, as Artists do; This divine art or skill did chiefly appear and shine forth in the creation or formation of man. Not that God strains himself in any work, but he speaks thus, to show that the highest perfections and exactness imaginable, yea beyond all imagination, were centred and laid into the works of God, or the things that he hath made. will ascribe righteousness to My Maker.

There's something in that expression very considerable; Elihu doth not say, I will ascribe righteousness to God, but speaks of God under that relation, His Maker. ¹The word signifies not only in General to make or create, of which work Moses treats in the first of Genesis, but it notes the doing of a thing, first, with diligence, secondly, with skill & great intention of mind, 'tis to draw all our spirits together in a work, as Artists do; This divine art or skill did chiefly appear and shine forth in the creation or formation of man. Not that God straines himself in any work, but he speaks thus, to shew that the highest perfections and exactness imaginable, yea beyond all imagination, were centred and laid into the works of God, or the things that he hath made. will ascribe righteousness to My Maker.

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