Chap,4 I. an Expo titian upon the Book of J o B. Verf. i i. 70E For of bin) are all things ; that is, he is the foie efficient of all things, all things are from him, as from the firff principle or mo- ver ; andhe orders all things (as it followcth in the fame verfe) through himare all things. As of bin; are all things in their con- Deusof amni ftitution, fo through him are all things in their difpenfation. We modo omniam have the work of creation in the firft part of the verfe, Of him "rum couf are all things, and the work of providence in the latter, Through en f as eci- him are all things ; that is, he difpcnceth and difpofeth all 2. Caufoadmi' things. And thus fpake the fame Apofile to the great Philofo- niflrons dä pliers at Athens (e/fas 17, 28.) In himwe live, andmove, and ma- 3.Cau. bave our being. As if it had been laid, Of him are all things, and fa finalis tic. through himare all thins ; and therefore, to him are all things. quernVMn1a All creatures turn about, as in a circic,to their Creator ; all things quo/i in circa« end inhim, or he is the end of all, as all things began in him, and two redeunt.." by him. This truth is a fpring of comfort and confolation to all the faithful;or, from this general head many ftreams How, which may both in[tru& and comfort the City of God. From hence we may learn, or be inflruoted, Firft, Creatures, one or other, menor Angels, cannot merit any thingat the bandof God. Man gives God nothing, but what he firft receives from him ; for, who bath preventedhim?' therefore there's no merit, preventing-mercy excludes and fhuts it out of doors. Secondly, which followeth upon than, God is debtor to no crea- ture ; he oweth us nothing, we owe him all. Who bathprevented Deusfaffus eji'. me? faithGod. If we have any thing, we have it fromhim,but he debitornon a- bath nothing from.us ; therefore we are in his taoòks, he is not at liquidd nobis àIí inours. All that God is indebted to us, "is by his romu es accipaendo, fie + p quad ei t lacuitj whichproceed freely from himfelf ; we receive no good upon the promittelndo, worthinefs of what we have done, but becaufe he bathallured Aug. de verb, . us we flail receivegood if we do good, fo and fo, or are fuch Dom,Serr6 and fuch. God gives us much, but retributes us nothing all his aoraROdb°M, Nihil are free gifts, or pure alms. salad Thirdly, God can do nocreat are any wrong. Man hath no right eft en¡imars, to any thinghe hath inherent in,or,arifing from himfelf nor path proprid non roan obliged God at all to give him any thing : therefore he can retribuit fed . doman nowrong,how little (Dever he gives him,or how much fo- tribuir.,,. everhe takes from him. So that, if any man (hail fay, he v ill not c:n
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