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An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
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Secondly, It may refer to the birth: for, there must be an opening of those doors and that by an Almighty power, for production as well as for conception; And therefore David, (Psal. 22.9.) ascribes it to the Lord, Lord thou art he who tookest me out of my mothers womb. It was not the Midwife did it, It was not the women's help that stood about his mother, but Lord thou diddest it; The hand of God only is able to open that door and let man into the world; Unless he (as we may so speak) turn the key, the poor infant must for ever lye in prison, and make his mothers womb his grave.
Secondly, It may referre to the birth: for, there must be an opening of those doores and that by an Almighty power, for production as well as for conception; And therefore David, (Psal. 22.9.) ascribes it to the Lord, Lord thou art he who tookest me out of my mothers wombe. It was not the Midwife did it, It was not the womens helpe that stood about his mother, but Lord thou didest it; The hand of God only is able to open that doore and let man into the world; Unlesse he (as we may so speake) turne the key, the poore infant must for ever lye in prison, and make his mothers wombe his grave.
In either or both these respects Job here speaks against the night, because it shut not up the doors of his mothers womb, to stop his conception, or stay him in the birth: For then, either he had not been, or he had not been brought forth as the subject of all those calamities. Hence observe, first
In either or both these respects Job here speakes against the night, because it shut not up the doores of his mothers wombe, to stop his conception, or stay him in the birth: For then, either he had not been, or he had not been brought forth as the subject of all those calamities. Hence observe, first