350 Verf.24. an Expofition open the, Book of J o B. Chap. 36. t'ivfl i. C. t?'ÌJrÌ Auuoas, enrol- las ejuropus, nonaccufos ut nunc faci:. Merc. Remember that thcu magnifie. As if he had faid, .Be thou daily and droll affecied with it, do not put it oft with a little; or a bare remembrance ; the matter is w eighty, confider is fully. As if Elihuhad laid to fob, Thouhaft much forgotten thy felf, andgoseoff from that which it thy proper work. I have heard thee much complaining of the workes ofGod, but thy work k'ould have been to magni f e the work ofGod. Though God bath cai thee down and laid thee low, yet thy bufnefs fhostld havebeen to exalt thework,o fGod ; Remember, it wouldmuch bet- ter become thee to ac`t anther part than this ; thou fhouldeFt have abled the part ofamagnifier of the workofGod,not thepart ofa corn, plainer again it it. Remember that thou t-Magmfie ; The root fignifieth, to encreafe and extol. We may confider a twofold magnifying of thework of God. There is an inward magnifying of the work of God ; ând there is an outward magni- fyingof the work of God. Fir(+, There is an inward magnifying of the work of God, when we think highly of it ; thus did the Virgin in her long (Luke r. 46.) tafy foul both magnifie the Lord. Her heart was railed up, and flretched out in high thoughts of God. Secondly, There is an outward magnifying of the work of God. To 'peak highly of his work is to magnify his work ; to live holily and fruitfully is to magnifie his work. We cannot make any addition to the work of Gad , there is no fuch magni- fying of it but we muf' firive to give the works of God their full dimenfion, and not leffen them at all. As we mull not diminifh thenumber of his works, fo we mufl not diminilh the jut' weight and worth of them. There is fuch a charge of God to the Prophet about kis word (for. 26.2.) Go tell thepeople all the wordy that I command thee tofpeakunto them ; diminifhnet a werd. Deliver thy tneffage inwords at length, or in the full length of there vords in which it was delivered unrothee. We . thenmagnifie the week of God, when we diminifh nor a tittle. Aswe cannot add any thing to it, fo we muff neither abate nor conceal any thingof ir. To magnifie, is nor tomake the works of God great, but to declare and fet forth the greatnefs of them ; chat's
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