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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 12-15
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Hence Note, First, What God will have done, he can command to be done, or it shall be done at his command.
The Lord needs not labour to produce the most difficult effects; he can produce them as a Lord, by a word speaking; he needs not entreat, nor treat about the bringing forth of any matter, ⟨p. 116⟩his will is enough to bring it forth. What God will have done, shall be done. Thus it was at the beginning, when God created all things, and gave them a being; and thus it hath been ever since for the moving of all things to their several ends, and issues, to this day; all hath been done by a word of command. David (Psal. 148.) calling the Sun, Moon, and Stars, to praise the Lord, gives that as the reason (vers. 5.) for he commanded, and they were created. Now, I say, as they were created at the first by his command, so they shine forth every day by the same command (Matth. 5.45.) He maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good. He that hath power, usually saith to a person that is unwilling to do a thing, I will make you to do it; that is, you shall do it, whether you will or no. And 'tis said by the Evangelist, He maketh his Sun to rise, &c. which may seem to import a kind of unwillingness in the Sun to bestow its light promiscuously upon the evil as well as good (evil men are indeed unworthy that the Sun should shine or the rain fall upon them) but God (who is infinite in goodness, and to show that our good deeds should not be shut up or narrowed to those only who are good) layeth an irresistible and an indispensable charge upon the Sun, to rise and shine with that indifferency to the good, and to the bad. The Sun would be ashamed to shine upon wicked men, the Sun would even with-hold its beams, and rays, and deny them light or any comfort, it would not make the earth fruitful for them, had it not a command from the Lord: But having a command from him, it cannot with-hold nor divert its light, no not from those who are children of darkness, and have constant fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.