Job 11

The angels wear a veil, they cover their faces, as adoring this infinite majesty (Isaiah 6:3). Elias wrapped himself in a mantle when God's glory passed by; admire where you cannot fathom (Job 11:7). Can you by searching find out God?

And now Eli, verse 14, said to her, How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you. This word was like pouring vinegar into the wound. When Job was afflicted with God's hand, his friends, instead of comforting him, told him he was a hypocrite (Job 11:2). These were cu…

Indicate Futura — show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know you are gods. The perfection of God's knowledge is that it cannot be searched out to perfection (Job 11:7). What angel can reach the top of these pyramids?

2. Our divine knowledge is imperfect; we know but in part, said Paul (1 Corinthians 13:9), though he had many revelations, and was wrapped up into the third heaven. We have but dark conceptions of the Trinity (Job 11:7). Can you by searching find out God? Our narrow capacities w…

God loves thus to be overcome with arguments in prayer. 7. Prayer that would prevail with God must be joined with reformation (Job 11:13). If you stretch out your hands toward him; if iniquity be in your hand, put it far away from you.

We would fain bring it to that, to be at our own dispose, to be answerable to none, that should call us to an account: the tumult of the nation against Christ was about bonds and yokes (Psalm 2:3). The pale or the yoke is grievous to us, see Job 11:12; Jeremiah 31:18. Now being…

Even so stands the case with gracious hearts; if they are in frame in one duty, yet how dull, dead, and disordered when they come to another. And therefore every duty needs a particular preparation of the heart (Job 11:13): 'If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands…

A Brotherly Examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late Sermon upon Job 11:20. as it is now Printed and published: By which he has to the great offence of very many, endeavoured to strike at the very root of all Spiritual and Ecclesiasticall Government, contrary to the Wor…

A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, upon the 27th of August 1645, being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation, whereunto is added a brotherly examination of some passages of Mr. Coleman's late printe…

'Tis our duty to seek after God, though we can never arrive to a perfect knowledge of him. (Job 11:7) Can you by searching find out God; can you find out the Almighty to perfection? He prohibits not the searching, though he asserts the impossibility of finding him out to perfect…

Secondly, God compares the ten Tribes to the wild Ass in way of contempt of them. As in the former place of Job 11:12, Vain man would be wise; though man be born like a wild Ass's Colt: he would fain think himself somebody, yet he is a most base and vile creature. And if any of…

The second use is for conviction and reproof, and indeed we cannot well tell where we shall begin here. However the first thing that it reproves is our natural pride, though this be the sinfulness of our very infancy, yet we are ready to look upon ourselves as something; it's a…

1. The word "men" is used for Adam, and all his sons (Hebrews 9:27). (2.) Often in the fullest sense, not regenerated, nor wholly reprobated, are called men (Job 11:11, 12; Psalm 12:1; and 4:2; and 53:2). (3) Believers are called men (Acts 1:11; 1 Corinthians 3:21, 22).

4. Muster up your thoughts and ways: Our thoughts and affections are like the strings of an instrument out of tune, and therefore we must take some pains to wind and screw them up. This is that which Zophar advises to (Job 11:13), to prepare the heart, and then stretch forth the…

Some by sinful ways have gotten wealth; but that Scripture has been verified in their experience, Proverbs 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing. Either God has blown upon it by a secret curse, that it has done them no good, or given them such disquietness in their conscie…

And in this Scripture you have represented, The immense and transcendent goodness of God, who is infinitely above us and all our thoughts, Job 11. 7, 8, 9. Canst you by searching, find out God? canst you find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as Heaven; what canst…

Secondly, if you would keep your comforts, keep your conscience clear from harboring the guilt of sin. Job 11:14-15: "If iniquity be in your hands, put it far away; if sin be in your conduct, away with it." Let not sin be in your heart, nor in your house, then shall you lift up…

Heaven will be clouded if the heart be filthy. If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away; if sin be upon the conscience, harbor it not (Job 11:14-15). For then you shall lift up your face before God, you shall be steadfast, and not fear.

For can we find out the Almighty to perfection? Can we by searching find out God (Job 11:7)? How shall poor limited finite creatures come to know what beseems the Infinite Holy One to do, any otherwise but as himself declares that he has done it?

- 1. To prayer. - 2. In prayer. 1. A stirring up of the heart to prayer (Job 11:13). If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him.

1. You are all foolish in your natural estate. Whatever vain opinion you have of your own wisdom, which is indeed but an indication of your folly, according to (Proverbs 26:16), the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason; yet this is a grea…

But whether this may warrant none to pray, while they first prepare themselves to pray, before they pray, by praying, and so that prayer which is preparatory must be prepared by another preparatory prayer; and so, without end, spiritual preparations must in infinitum go on befor…

Can we by searching, find out God? Can we find out the Almighty to perfection? (Job 11:7). As it is in itself an essential, eternal property of the Divine Nature, we can have no comprehension of it: we can but adore it in that infinite distance wherein we stand from God; but in…

This carries the Mystery of the Wisdom of God, above the Reason or Understanding of Men and Angels to be the Object of Faith and Admiration only. A Mystery it is that becomes the Greatness of God with his Infinite Distance from the whole Creation; which renders it unbecoming him…

THE Ocean is of a vast extent and depth, though supposedly measurable, yet not to be sounded by Man. It compasses about the Whole Earth, which in the account of Geographers, is Twenty one thousand and six hundred Miles in compass; yet the Ocean surrounds it on every side, Psalm…

We cannot by searching find out the Almighty to perfection: it is high as heaven, what can we do? It is deeper than hell, what can we know; the measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea (Job 11:7-9). We may all say one to another of this, surely we are m…

Now it is an especial point of wisdom, to seek the best good that we can, as for ourselves, so also for our children: indeed this is an evident sign of a parent's true love of his child. 2. There is a necessity that children be taught piety, because they are not born but made Ch…

Popish Enemies never prevail, but they Blaspheme. 2. Let us put away iniquity out of our Tabernacles, Job 11:14. Sin is not worth keeping: who would keep a Plague-sore?

Men are dishonest out of choice, and therefore think there is more of liberty and bravery in it; but to be simple argues imperfection. (Job 11:12) Vain man would be accounted wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt; not only for untamedness and affectation of liberty, bu…

Ezra 9:13. Seeing that you our God has punished us less than our iniquities deserve. Job 11:6. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. 4. He is not hard to be pleased, nor inexorable upon every failing.

He that gave the law, he it is that writes it upon the heart. Alas! we in ourselves are but like the wild ass's colt (Job 11:12), both for rudeness of understanding, and also for unruliness of affection. Well then, if we be tamed and subdued, he must have all the glory and the p…

When he lays on some heavy cross, he might have cast us into Hell, and laid his hand upon us forever. See (Job 11:6): "O know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves." We have low thoughts of sin, and therefore have grievous apprehensions of God's judgm…

They should look and long for some help, for the rescuing of their children, even till their eyes did fail in waiting, but all in vain. So (Job 11:20) The eyes of the wicked shall fail them, they shall not escape, but their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. They may l…

What is such company and converse good for, but to quench zeal and fervency, indeed, the ready way to lose credit and good name; and if not innocency, yet always time, which is too precious to be squandered away and lost, much more to be sinned away! Shall a man of much talk be…

The hope of God's people keeps their heart from breaking, and it shall never be ashamed, but this hope of sinners will break their heart in hell, for there it will be ashamed, when the wicked dies, his expectation shall perish, and the hope of unjust men perishes (Proverbs 11:7)…

Since it is thus, men ought not to walk after the inclinations of their own hearts. 3. The thoughts and imaginations of the heart of a sinner are vain and vile (Job 11:12). Vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.

Wolves, (Matthew 7:15). Asses, Job 11. 12. Swine, 2 (Peter 2:22).

Indeed that there is a God, and that this God is to be worshipped is a Law written in the heart of Man, and is consonant to Reason; but who God is, and the right mode of Worship, this is such an Arcanum that Reason can no more find out, than, the Philistines could Samson's riddl…

But as Job speaks, "Where shall this wisdom be found, and what is the place of understanding?" (Job 28:12). "Can we by searching find out God? Can we find out the Almighty to perfection?" (Job 11:7). As it is in itself an essential, eternal property of the divine nature, we can…

This carries the mystery of the wisdom of God, above the reason or understanding of men and angels to be the object of faith and admiration only. A mystery it is that becomes the greatness of God with his infinite distance from the whole creation; which renders it unbecoming him…

How little of God will our intellect contain? Job 11:7. Can you find out the Almighty unto perfection?

It is on the account of sin, that the heart is said to be deceitful above all things (Jeremiah 17:9). Take a man in other things, and as Job speaks, though he would be wise and crafty, he is like the wild ass's colt (Job 11:12), a poor, vain, empty, nothing. But consider his hea…

I shall instance in some remarkable places; 1 Kings 8:27. Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain you. Job 11:7, 8, 9. Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty to perfection? Isaiah 66:1. Thus says the Lord, behold, heaven is my throne, a…

But according to the universal system, the wicked has in his death as real and well-founded a hope as the hope of the righteous. Job 11:20: "Their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost." Chapter 27:8: For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God ta…

David upon his own experience affirms that by God's Word he was made wiser than the ancient, than his teachers, than his enemies. Ancient men who have much experience of many times, and of many things done in those times, commonly get much wisdom by their long experience; so as…

Hence it is that men generally pretend to these excellencies of knowledge and wisdom, even such as are most destitute of them, and rather than want these perfections, they will call even their vices and imperfections by this name: craft, and silence, and secrecy, and reservednes…

And therefore unnaturalness of affection is reckoned up by the Apostle among the foulest of sins, when like Ishmael the nature of men grows wild and brutish, as the philosopher calls such men [in non-Latin alphabet], men of savage and fierce dispositions. And therefore in the Sc…

Question 2. Is God infinite in being and perfection? Yes (Job 11:7-9; Job 26:14). Well then, do not the Vorstians, Socinians, and Anthropomorphitans err, who maintain that God is finite in being and perfection? Yes.