An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

So that, the proof of this Assumption, that Job had no hand, g•ve no counsel, no furtherance, no assistance, in the Works of Creation and Providence; I say this Assumption, contains the history of the greatest things in all the parts of Nature: for whatsoever belongs to true Philosophy, may be reduced to it, or clearly discovered in it; and herein we are taught the true use of Philosophy, even to raise the mind of man to the contemplation of the Eternity, Power, and Wisdom of God; as also of our own frailty, weakness, nothingness, and so to sit down in an humble submission, to whatsoever the Lord doth with us, or ours, in this world.

So that, the proof of this Assumption, that Job had no hand, g•ve no counsel, no furtherance, no assistance, in the Works of Creation and Providence; I say this Assumption, contains the history of the greatest things in all the parts of Nature: for whatsoever belongs to true Philosophy, may be reduced to it, or clearly di•covered in it; and herein we are taught the true use of Philosophy, even to raise the mind of man to the contemplation of the Eternity, Power, and Wisdom of God; as also of our own frailty, weakness, nothingness, and so to sit down in an humble submission, to whatsoever the Lord doth with us, or ours, in this world.

So much of the argument and general scope of this whole discourse.

The Lord begins with the Work of Creation, thereby humbling Job to this Confession, that he had nothing at all to do with it.