Winter meditations directions how to employ the leisure of the winter for the glory…

This Elihis, for That was his Name, is in our Context proving, That as there is a most Inscrutable and Unblemished Wisdom, in all the Works of God, so in the Afflictions which the Lord had now sent upon Job, there was nothing to be at all complained of. Whatever is done by our Great God, either in the Great World, or to the Little World, we have cause to say, He hath done ALL Things WELL: and there is no Work of God, whereof, all Circumstances considered, we have not cause to own, His Work is perfect. Nothing in the World could be more Arrogant than the Speech uttered by the King of Arrage•, That he could have contrived a better shaped World; nor more worthy to be Rebuked with such Burning Thunderbolts as the Spanish. Annals tell us, brought that haughty Monarch unto Repentance. But among those Excellent Works, of the God who is, Excellent is working, such Works as are every Winter ⟨p. 4⟩to be seen, have a Remark most particularly here set upon them.

This Elihis, for That was his Name, is in our Context proving, That as there is a most Inscrutable and Unblemished Wisdom, in all the Works of God, so in the Afflictions which the Lord had now sent upon Job, there was nothing to be at all complained of. Whatever is done by our Great God, either in the Great World, or to the Little World, we have cause to say, He hath done ALL Things WELL: and there is no Work of God, whereof, all Circumstances considered, we have not cause to own, His W•rk is perfect. Nothing in the World could be more Arrogant than the Speech uttered by the King of Arrage•, That he could have contrived a better shaped World; nor more worthy to be Reb•ked with such Burning Thunderbolts as the Spanish. Annals tell us, brought that haughty Monarch unto Repentance. But among those Excellent Works, of the God who is, Excellent is working, such Works as are every Winter ⟨p. 4⟩to be seen, have a Remark most particularly here set upon them.