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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.
1. Mans eye is but a means, or an instrument of knowledge: Gods eye is his knowledge. The act and the faculty are not distinct in God. All in God is act; Neither is God another thing from his act: whatsoever is ascribed to him, is himself. The eye of God is God seeing. The knowledge of God is God knowing. The love of God is God loving.
2, Man must have a two-fold light to see by; an inward light, the light of the eye and an outward light, the light in the air: without both he cannot see; man doth not see (as Naturalists speak) by sending forth a beam or a ray from his eye to the object, but by receiving or taking in a beam or a ray from the object into his eye; The object issues it's species to the eye, which being joined with the visive power of the eye, man seeth: But God seeth in himself, of himself, and from himself, he needs no outward light. Christ is described having a fiery eye, His eyes were as a flame of fire (Revel. 1.14. Revel. 2.18.) Even nature teacheth us that those creatures which have fiery eyes, see in the dark, and see best when it is darkest, because they see by sending forth a beam or a flame from their eyes, which at once apprehends the object, and enlightens the passage to it. God who commanded light to come ⟨p. 453⟩out of darkness for the use of man, commands light in darkness for his own. The darkness hideth not from thee (saith David) but the night shineth as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where any of the workers of iniquity can hide themselves, Job 34.22. Thus God hath not eyes of flesh; he seeth not as man seeth.
2, Man must have a two-fold light to see by; an inward light, the light of the eye and an outward light, the light in the air: without both he cannot see; man doth not see (as Naturalists speak) by sending forth a beam or a ray from his eye to the object, but by receaving or taking in a beam or a ray from the object into his eie; The object issues it's species to the eye, which being joyned with the visive power of the eye, man seeth: But God seeth in himself, of himself, and from himself, he needs no outward light. Christ is described having a fiery eye, His eyes were as a flame of fire (