796; Chap. 42. n..Expefation seporfthe Book of Jog; Verf.0,; cannot he weaken the f}rong, and ftrengthen the weak ?cannot he make fools wife, .. and wife men fto1i1h "? Purelyhe can do all thefe things, for he cando every thing. Secondly, from thefe words take that grandaffertion. God is omnipotent, his power is infinite. This is a principle, one of thegreat principles of Religion, an Article of Faith; yet I (hall not enlarge upon it, having met with it in other places of this book. Only confider here, how yob infers this principle ; he infers it from the diCcourfe which the Lord was pleafed to have with him, in the four former Chapters, wherein the Lord told him of many things that hehad done; I have done this and that in the heavens above, andin the earth be- low, I have madeBehemoth and Leviathan a God had cold him Exaairalilibas of his doings ; whence fob inferred, 1 know thou twill do eve- aecenfates fa- ry thing. He Both not make this conclufion by way of induetion vit Job att; (there is fuch away of argumentation in Logick) but bydedu- coHegitDeum &ion. God bath done this and that, and the other, therefore he amnia pof ; non gnsfi per can do all triings ; if he can do this, what cannot he do ? if he . rndatfiionem, can make and lubdue Behemoth, what cannot he do ? and if he fedper deduli- can make and mailer Leviathan, what cannot he do? Chri(f onemplurium::. (Luke 5. a.o.) argueth hisomnipotency or Godhead in the fame a p uno o prinan(or- manner; for having healedapoor man, and faid unto him, Man, thyfins areforgiven thee, the Pharifees were very much offended with that word, Paying, who is this that fpeaketh blafpbemy? who can forgive fins but God alone ? ChriU knowing their thoughts, faid, what reafon ye in your hearts ? whether is it taller tofay, thy fins areforgiven thee, or tofay, rifeup andwalk? I have heal- ed the man; dothnot thatargue adivine power ?; why maynot I then fay, Thy fins are forgiven thee ? He that can by his own might do one mighty or miraculous thing, can do all things. Such is the power of God, that, as I faid before, he bath no limit to ir, but his own will. And feeirg the will of God is the limit of his power, let us take heed of defiring him who can do every thing, to do any thing for us, which is not according to his will. Let us bound our delires; let us take heed of faying,rhis is our delre, and God can do every thing, therefore this which we delire. Confider, is your delre according to the will of God. We cannot urgeGod with his Omnipotency, to do any thing that is our dcfire, if we are not
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