49° Chap. i o. An Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Verf. N' with the Father ac the Creation of man,AndGodf aid,Let us make man in our image after our likenef.c, Gen. r. 26. `others expound hands literally and ffrmaliy, not as if God had hands ( that's below their conceit) but thus, It bath been Laid of old, that when God at firft had formed man,the Son took up- on him an outward fhape, or the fhape of a nun ; and fo (fay they) Chrift (not made man, but) in the fornì ofman formed. man. caufes jecundis Thirdly, the hands of God are all fecond caufes, which God vetuú gwbujdO uícth toward the produ Lion of any efft . All hands work for rpaaibsar arid,r ad tr De Go us od,- d, the y work for him, while they are Et awork againft him (aides res flit,- and fo may be called, The handsofGod. Mans masking lince the 40lsres.Aquin Creation, is not an immediate work ; the Creation of the firf} man was. Yet it is fo much the workof God fill, that every man is the work of his hands, as well as the heft man. All inferiour caufes concurring to the massing of man are the hands, by which God maketh man. Fourthly, The hands of God, are generally taken for the pow- er and wifdom of God. The hand ofpower afts,what the hand of wifdom doth contrive. As the hand is often put for power, fo- to put any thing in the hand ofanother, is to put it into his pow- er. That grant which was made to Satan at the beginning of this book, runs in this ftrain, Behold, he (meaning job) is in thine hand(that is,Thou may.efl do with him what thou wilt) onlyfave his life (Chap. 2. 6.) The Schoolmen determine the hands of God to be the under- J`fanding andwill of God, which they call, The executive power of God; by there he determines what (hall be done, and doth what he predetermines. The very decree and purpofe of God, is called the hand of God (41.15 4. 280 Ofa truth, aping. thy holy child jr ios,wbom thou haft anointed, Both Herod andPontius Pilatewith the Gentiles and the people of Ifrael weregathered together, for to do $vhatfoever thy hand, and tly counfel determined before to be done. Gods band was the foveraign power. of God, over- ruling thole evil inffruments to fulfil his holy counfels, while they intended only to fulfil their own wicked counfels. Tutromatore We may heft interpretyob in thefourth fenfe,Thinebands bave jlaretnoq; iire mademe and fa/hionedme, that is,Itam made and fafhioned by thy. Bez, power and wifdom, I am a piece of thy forming. None but the only wife, and all-powerful God, could produce filch an effca as I am. Nave.
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