Chap. 36. ei4n Expofr'tion upoa.i the-Gook of J o, a. Verf. 2 f. yea, the houfeof lfrati mull lay, all the works c f God, nor only 'isexalting work-,but his ht.rmbung equaí,juliand rigça- teous,for we have finned. This is to magnirte toe work or God, Fourthly, To magnihe the work of God, is to look upon his work chat-ever it is, not only as having judice in ir to va.ds all men, but as good and being Mil of ñooene,s to his People. Pof- fbly it may bevery hard work, yet we mull being our hearts to-. fay it isgood work, .good to and for tine !Baer of God. Thus toc holy roan of old magnified thework of God (`Plat.?3. r .) Truly, God is got(' to Ifracf. Thishe fpake whilehe wasbemoaning him- felt under very afilraing providences. We rfnagnifie t ie affl 6t- ing worksofGod, when we fub,r,it to them as juts , ¡arch more when we embrace them as good. And it was very much the de- fign of EIhwto bring job og fromdifputing about the evils with which God had fo long exercised him, to a ready yeeldance that they were good for him,and that in all theLord intended nothing but his good. Fifthly, Tomagnifie the-work of God, is toanfwer the end ç it. Every work. is magnified when it receiveth its end ; if a work be done, yet if it havenot its effe&, if it bring not that a- bout to which it was cefigned, the worker receives no honour from ir, no: is the work honoured.To work in vain, isa debafing, a- lellèt ing of any work, not-, a magnifying of it, The Apofik was afraid to beflow'his labour in preaching theGofpel in vain. When people (till continue in their blindnefs and unbelief, eve. this layeth the preaching of the Gofpel low ; but when fouls are con- vinced and converted, and come .flocking in, then the Gofpel is magnihed, n4 the word of the Lordgloráfcd, as,the Apoffte,pray- ed it might (2 ?hef..3.r.) Now as theword of God is inagnt- fled when it attains its end,to the work of God is magnified woen we give hint, o come up to thole ends for which hewrought irr But if we let God lofe the end of his work, we do what we can to debate his wor k, as if he haddone it in vain. We ray;he 'Arks like afoot that h not propoled an end to every r,otkhe dark ; and he apr'ears not very. wife, at lean not very powe fill,who ar.- tainerh tor, the end: or ends-for which he began his work. The molt Wife 'God hsth his -end and aim in all his worksin this world .; and this is the horourr we do fiswork, when we labour, frii, to know,and fecondly, to give him his end in every to:k. s 2. Bt 36
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