Homilist Job 34:33 Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I… I. SHOULD THE ARRANGEMENTS OF LIFE BE ACCORDING TO THY MIND? Those who are constantly murmuring under the dispensations of Providence should remember — 1. The circumscribed sphere of their observation. 2. The limitation of human faculties. 3. The brevity of man's mortal existence. 4. The narrowness of human sympathies. II. SHOULD THE METHOD OF REDEMPTION BE ACCORDING TO THY MIND? There are many who raise objections to Christianity. Many who imagine that they could have constructed a better system of spiritual redemption. Two facts convince us that the human mind is utterly incompetent to form a scheme for spiritual restoration. 1. The mistakes it has made on the subject in interpreting nature. 2. The mistakes it has made on the subject in interpreting Christianity. The perverters of the Gospel plan of salvation may be divided into two grand classes. (1) Those that infer from Christianity that they can be saved by a mere intellectual faith in certain theological propositions. (2) Those that infer that they can be saved by an external observance of certain ceremonies — the intervention of priests, the invocation of saints, the observance of sacraments, etc. Thus we say to the captious sceptic, we cannot have a system of religion according to thy mind. Thy mind is utterly unsuited to construct a religion redemptive to man and acceptable to God. "Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard," etc. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. |
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