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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, Sealing is for secrecy, or for the hiding of a thing from the sight of others: So in the sealing of letters, that they be not seen, and of treasures, that they be not stolen or taken away, Deut. 32.34. Job 14.17. Thus the Lord seals up the stars,1 when he clouds or obscures the stars, and will not let them be seen. Some make it an allusion to a book. The heavens are a great volume, wherein many truths of God are written, his name is there; and the stars are as so many characters or letters of his Name. He often seals up this great volume, and so blots these letters that no man can read or distinguish them.
Secondly, Sealing is for secrecie, or for the hiding of a thing from the sight of others: So in the sealing of letters, that they be not seen, and of treasures, that they be not stoln or taken away, Deut. 32.34. Job 14.17. Thus the Lord seals up the stars,1 when he clouds or obscures the stars, and will not let them be seen. Some make it an allusion to a book. The heavens are a great volume, wherein many truths of God are written, his name is there; and the stars are as so many characters or letters of his Name. He often seals up this great volume, and so blots these letters that no man can read or distinguish them.
- 1Clausae videntur, cum non videntur. Stellae & omnia coeli lumina, vetur characters quidam efficiunt librum. Pined.Clausae videntur, cum non videntur. Stellae & omnia coeli lumina, vetur characteres quidam efficiunt librum. Pined.