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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 16-18
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Lastly, Observe; Whatsoever God is not pleased to reveal to us, or is pleased to hide from us, that we should be content not to know, and be satisfied that it is hidden from us.
(Deut. 29.29.) The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed, belong unto us and our children for ever. It is both our duty and our interest, to be content with our own share, or to be satisfied with what belongs to us, and not to invade Gods peculiars or reserves. It was Jobs fault, he would be entering into the secrets of God, but saith God, Have the gates of death been opened unto thee, or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? if not, then be not troubled that those things are not opened to thee, which I have reserved to my self. God hath not straitened us in any needful point of knowledge, there is enough opened to us, though the gates of death ⟨p. 157⟩be not. Is it not enough for us, that in the glass of the Gospel, God hath set before us, the mysteries of eternal salvation, unless he also acquaint us in the day of our trial (which was Jobs case) with all the whole mystery of his temporal dispensations?
(Deut. 29.29.) The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed, belong unto us and our children for ever. It is both our duty and our interest, to be content with our own share, or to be satisfied with what belongs to us, and not to invade Gods peculiars or reserves. It was Jobs fault, he would be entring into the secrets of God, but saith God, Have the gates of death been opened unto thee, or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? if not, then be not troubled that those things are not opened to thee, which I have reserved to my self. God hath not straitned us in any needful point of knowledge, there is enough opened to us, though the gates of death ⟨p. 157⟩