Job 10

Position 10. God's mercy, as it makes the saints happy, so it should make them humble: mercy is not the fruit of our goodness, but the fruit of God's goodness. Mercy is an alms that God bestows; they have no cause to be proud that live upon the alms of God's mercy (Job 10:15). "…

2. In other debts, men may get a protection, so that none can touch their persons, or sue them for the debt; but who shall give us a protection from God's justice? Job 10:7: there is none that can deliver out of your hand. Indeed the Pope pretends that his pardon shall be men's…

They could not look through the dark shades of Death into light, immortality, and glory. See the twofold spirit of the Old and New Testament, with respect to the apprehensions of Death expressed; the one Job 10:21, 22, the other 2 Corinthians 5:1, 2, 3, 4. But there is nothing m…

God works strangely; he brings Order out of Confusion, Harmony out of Discord; he makes use many times of unjust men, to do that which is just: He is wise in heart, Job 10.4. He can reap his Glory out of men's fury, Psalm 76.10.

God therefore being a faithful creator, tenderly loves all his creatures. So Job reasons with God, that he will not cast him off, because he is the work of his hands (Job 10:3). 2. God will bear with his creature, to see whether it will be brought to any good end and use before…

2. Their obstinacy in sinning: they are fallen so as they cannot rise again, they are called wickednesses as sinning with much malice and obstinacy; as if you should say, wickedness itself; the devil's sin is as the sin against the Holy Ghost, a malicious, obstinate, spiteful op…

Surely our iniquities will inquire after us, if we will not inquire after them. Indeed, in the day of affliction, a gracious soul is inquisitive about nothing more than the procuring and provoking cause of his troubles (Job 10:2), Show me for what you contend with me? That is to…

Nor Habakkuk with the holiness of God (Habakkuk 1:14): you are of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, why do you hold your tongue, when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he? In point of God's goodness too, Job expostulates the case with God (Job 10:3): Is it…

And in very many other places they render the term by one Greek word for idols, sometimes by another, as Isaiah 46:1, Psalm 106:36. For the Hebrew root also signifies "to form" or "to fashion"; as Job 10:8, "Your hands formed me." And so idols seem to be able to be called by thi…

And (2.) that peculiar vital Life which we have by the union of the rational Soul with the Body is from God also, and that in an especial manner, Gen. 2. 7. Job 10. 12. But neither of these are any-where called the Life of God.

But this is vastly different from the case of the saints under sanctified afflictions; for as they have highr motives and nobler principles, so they have lower and more sensible ones too; and these are, in their kind and place, very useful to them. (2.) Besides, you must know, t…

He comes nigh in mercies also, Psalm 145:18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, &c. Yea, he is said to visit us by his Providence when he corrects, Hosea 9:7 and when he saves and delivers, Psalm 106:4 These visitations of God preserve our spirits, Job. 10:12 And…

Seeing God gives the greater, we need not to doubt but he wil affoard the lesse. In this reason Christ teaches us, to make right use of our creation; namely, by the consideration of it, to learne confidence in Gods prouidence for all things needfull to our naturall life: Job. 10…

Duties of religion performed by whole societies of men, ought to have in them according to our power a sensible excellency correspondent to the majesty of him whom we worship. Because wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one, and the ordinary course of this world is according t…

By his holy sovereign will as above all laws that bind the rational creatures, he does as he pleases, and what he pleases: and none can say What do you? Hence 1. its graciousness of holy sovereignty, that because he is sovereign, he does not crush us; the flesh speaks that in Jo…

2. God bears much affection to man as he is his creature, and the work of his hands, and the saints plead it when they would be spared, and when they would be saved. As (Job 10:3): Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands? So vers…

2. This puts them upon a diligent search after the provocation: they conclude on this, that there is blame in them; God would not have so deserted them, if they had not some way prevaricated: this therefore they must find out, and they are in great anxiety of mind till they can…

I am a worm, and no man. Bradford a Martyr, yet subscribes himself a sinner, Job 10:15. If I am righteous, I will not lift up my head:

2. What we must do when we are brought low. 1. Let us search the sin which is the cause of our trouble, Job 10:2. Show me wherefore thou contendest with me: Lord, What is that sin which has provoked thee to bring me low? Lamentations 3:40.

So the Lord does cancell the bond, and blots out the writing, that neither sin, nor the Devill shall have any processe against him in a way of condemnation. Fourthly, Pardon of sin is expressed in Scripture by acquitting of a man from his iniquity, Job 10:14. If I sin, you marke…

I looked then, and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him, and he asked, “Why do you cry?” He answered, “Sir, I perceive, by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgment (Hebrews 9:27); and I find that I am not willing to do the first (Jo…

Well, if you will not, then take that cursed heart of yours, and expect God's wrath with it, if you repent not. See how God deals with a sinner in this kind; the text says, his bones are full of the sins of his youth, which shall lie with him in the dust (Job 10:11-12). Although…

And if a gracious soul is so apt to be humbled for other men's sins, much more for his own. Fifthly, the upright soul is inquisitive under the rod to find out that evil for which the Lord contends with him by affliction (Job 10:2): 'Show me why you contend with me'; and Job 34:3…

These effects convince us that there is an infinite power which is above and overrules all things, for every principal and primary cause is more excellent than the effects thereof. (12) From the being of man, the curious workmanship of his body in the womb, which is wrought most…