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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 28-30
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Now, If God be the Father of the Rain, we may hence infer,
First, That God is the Father of all Creatures, and the supreme cause of all effects in the creatures. As a Father is the second or instrumental cause of his Sons Being, so God is the supreme efficient cause of all Beings and Entities. Not only Animals and Rationals, but the very inanimates and senseless creatures are of a Divine extraction: God is the Fountain of their Being. And if God be, and must be acknowledged as the Father of all Creatures, even of the Rain, then,
First, That God is the Father of all Creatures, and the supream cause of all effects in the creatures. As a Father is the second or instrumental cause of his Sons Being, so God is the supream efficient cause of all Beings and Entities. Not only Animals and Rationals, but the very inanimates and sensless creatures are of a Divine extraction: God is the Fountain of their Being. And if God be, and must be acknowledged as the Father of all Creatures, even of the Rain, then,
Secondly, God is much more the Father of Mankind. The Apostle voucheth that to the superstitious Athenians as a Divine truth, out of their own Authors (Acts 17.28.) As certain also of your own Poets have said, for we are also his off spring; we are sprung from him as Branches from the Root, or as Streams from the Fountain: Not that we are, as the Streams with the Fountain, or the Branches with the Roo•, of the same Nature with him, (which to imagine were highest Blasphemy) but we take or receive our Nature from him, that is, he hath made us to be what we are, and in him, that is, in dependence upon him, we live and move, and have our Being.