36o Verf.z4. eXn Expoftionupon the Book of J o s. Chap. 36. whole effeel of the work. As we then magnifie God when we Took to him alone, with a tingle eye, as the endof all our works .( There is nothing cloth magnifie God in what we do, but our looking to God as the endof all we do ; Let our work be what it will, never fo glittering, never fo gay and glo; ions in theeye of the world, yet if it be not configned over to God, it is a bafe and pittiful work ; if any man dedicates his work to himfelf he difhonouts his work Now ( I fay ) as it magnifieth our work when we Make God the end of our work) fo that which rnagni- lieth Gods work, is, when we look upon him,'not only as having an hand in it; but as being both the beginner and ender of ir. if we take or give this to thecreature, that is, ,fit down in this or that Inftrument, as themeans by which we have attained our end, or as the end ofwhat we have attained, we fpoil the work as to 'God, or defpoil God ofhis work. Retnember,this, and this only, magnifieth our work, when we with a fingle eye look toGod as the author and as the endof ir.. Every work we fee done is mag- nified, andGod in ir, when we lock to"God as the Alphaand a mega, as the Author asset ender of it. Nor is this true only in thole works of Godwi:ich he do!. hmore immediately, but where men a&mofi,and a e very infirumental. Let us therefore afcribe every work to God, and that fir (%, in rfilió ing us ; fuch an eye jofeph had (Gen. 45, 8.) 't visas no joss that fent hither,brt God ; thatis, notfo much you, as God ( faith jofeph to his bre- thren)i do not fay it was you (though youwere unkindbrethren) itwas not you that lent me hither,bat God ; I look at himmore than at you in that great afiliaion, which was brought upon trae by your envy and unbotherly unàiindnets towards me. such an eye David had when hewas under a very grievous, black, dark providence, when his fon role up againfl him, and whenhis Cub- Ie6 Shimei cuffed. hint, even then he magnified that workof 'God, by alcr bin it wholly unro.him (z Sam. 16. i o.) The Lord bathfail untohim, curfe David. He magnified God in hat great affiieticnby looking at the hand of Godatone in it, andpaf- fing by Shimei's, both undutifulnefs and extrearic malignity. He faid as much, while he tells us hefaid noshing, in a likeor as bad a cafe (Ppd. 39. g.) I opened not my mouth, becanfe ghost did it Hence that reproof in the Prophet (Ifs. 5. a 2.) 7hey re- gurdnot the werk,,ofthe Lerdawer.cessfulen theoperRr oxoff);s hands Second-
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