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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 40 › Verse 1-2
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If man were not vain and foolish? he would not willingly do any thing, that should have the least signification of a contention with God, much less that which can signify nothing else. Solomon saith, fools will be meddling; it is highest folly to be thus meddling with Gods matters. Again, it is a sufficient proof of our ignorance and folly, to attempt (in any way) to instruct God or teach him, either what to do or how to do, either when to do or in what measure to do, or towards whom to do any of his works; but they who are unsatisfied with the works of God, and in that sense ⟨p. 507⟩contend with him about them, make an attempt always in some of these respects, sometimes in all of them, to instruct and teach him: Is not their folly manifest to all men, who are not as foolish as themselves? Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him?
If man were not vain and foolish? he would not willingly do any thing, that should have the least signification of a contention with God, much less that which can signifie nothing else. Solomon saith, fools will be medling; it is highest folly to be thus medling with Gods matters. Again, it is a sufficient proof of our ignorance and folly, to attempt (in any way) to instruct God or teach him, either what to do or how to do, either when to do or in what measure to do, or towards whom to do any of his works; but they who are unsatisfied with the works of God, and in that sense ⟨p. 507⟩contend with him about them, make an attempt always in some of these respects, sometimes in all of them, to instruct and teach him: Is not their folly manifest to all men, who are not as foolish as themselves? Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him?
He that reproveth God let him answer it.