But now God hath placed. Here we have another argument, taken from the appointment of God. "It has pleased God, that the body should consist of various members, and that the members should be endowed with various offices and gifts. That member, therefore, which will not rest satisfied with its own station, will wage war with God after the manner of the giants. [1] Let us, therefore, be subject to the arrangement which God has appointed, that we may not, to no purpose, resist his will." [2]

Footnotes

1 - "Comme les poetes ont dit anciennement des geans;" -- "As the poets have told of the giants in ancient times." The fabled war of the giants with the gods is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, 7, 59, 206; 10, 120. -- Ed.

2 - "De peur de perdre temps, and nous gaster en resistant a la volonte;" -- "Lest we should lose time, and do hurt to ourselves by resisting his will."

Hath God set the members - God has formed the body, with its various members, as he saw would best conduce to the harmony and usefulness of all.

But now hath God set the members,.... The members of a natural body, as they are all made and fashioned by God in the form they be, so they are each of them set by him in the place they are:
everyone of them in the body as it hath pleased him; according to his sovereign will, without consulting any; and each stands in the best situation and position they could be put, and for the greatest service and usefulness to the whole: so God, and not man, hath set every member in the mystical body, the church, in such a place and part of it, as he himself thought fit; some in a higher, others in a lower station, but all for the good of the body; and therefore each member ought to be content with his place, gift, and usefulness, be they what they will; since it is the wise counsel and sovereign pleasure of God, who works all things after the counsel of his own will, that so it should be.

now--as the case really is.
every one--each severally.

As it hath pleased him - With the most exquisite wisdom and goodness.