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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.
Yes, we may observe times holily, but ⟨p. 219⟩not superstitiously, as if some times were good, others bad, some lucky, others unlucky, as if the power of God were shut up in, or over-ruled by his own instruments and inferior causes, this is dishonourable unto God, and thus the Jews were forbidden to use any divination, or to observe times.
Yes, we may observe times holily, but ⟨p. 219⟩not superstitiously, as if some times were good, others bad, some lucky, others unlucky, as if the power of God were shut up in, or over-ruled by his own instruments and inferiour causes, this is dishonourable unto God, and thus the Jews were forbidden to use any divination, or to observe times.
The heavens and stars are for signs, but they are not infallible signs. They are ordinary signs of the change of weather, Mat. 16.2, 3. They are ordinary signs of the seasons of the year, Spring and Summer, and harvest and winter; they are ordinary signs of a fit time to till and manure the ground, to plough, sow and reap. The earth is fitted and prepared for culture by the motion of the heavens. The heavens are at once the Alphabet of the power and wisdom of God, and of our works: we may read there when to do many businesses. Gen. 8.22. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Those seasons shall continually return according to the time of the year, measured by the Sun, Moon and Stars. Thus, they are signs of ordinary events. And God sometimes puts the sign of an extraordinary event in them, Mat. 24.29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the Sun be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; which, some understand allegorically; others literally of strange apparitions and impressions in heaven, either before the destruction of Jerusalem, or the day of judgement. So