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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 38 › Verse 4-6
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Seventhly, From the scope of these words we may
Observe; God who hath made the Earth by his Power, doth also govern it, and man who inhabits it.
And therefore man ought to be quiet, and sit down in his governing as well as in his Creating Will. To convince and persuade Job of this, is (as hath been touched) the purpose of God in all that followeth. He that hath made the World, governs the World; and if so, shall poor creatures, you or I, or any other, though a Job, find fault with his government of it? Will a Master-Builder suffer any one to find fault with his work, who understands not how to lay a stone in it, much less to give the rule or direction for the whole work? Forasmuch then as the Lord is not only the Master-Builder, but the sole Maker of this great House, the World, it becomes man, for whose use it was made, to acquiesce or rest quietly in his Government of it. Surely, the Maker of all things, hath a right to dispose of all things; and therefore all persons are to be satisfied in his disposal of them.
And therefore man ought to be quiet, and sit down in his governing as well as in his Creating Will. To convince and perswade Job of this, is (as hath been toucht) the purpose of God in all that followeth. He that hath made the World, governs the World; and if so, shall poor creatures, you or I, or any other, though a Job, find fault with his government of it? Will a Master-Builder suffer any one to find fault with his work, who understands not how to lay a stone in it, much less to give the rule or direction for the whole work? Forasmuch then as the Lord is not only the Master-Builder, but the sole Maker of this great House, the World, it becomes man, for whose use it was made, to acquiesce or rest quietly in his Government of it. Surely, the Maker of all things, hath a right to dispose of all things; and therefore all persons are to be satisfied in his disposal of them.