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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.
3. Man seeth one thing after another: his eye is not able to take in all objects at once; he views now one, and then another, to make his judgement of them. But God seeth all things together; he beholdeth all at one view; his eye takes and gathers in all objects, and all that is in every object by one act. The Lord looketh from heaven, and beholdeth all the sons of men; from the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth (Psal. 33.13, 14.)
3. Man seeth one thing after another: his eye is not able to take in all objects at once; he views now one, and then another, to make his judgement of them. But God seeth all things together; he beholdeth all at one view; his eye takes and gathers in all objects, and all that is in every object by one act. The Lord looketh from heaven, and beholdeth all the sonnes of men; from the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth (Psal. 33.13, 14.)
4. An eye of flesh seeth at a distance, and at such a distance. Naturalists tell us, there must be a due distance between the eye and the object. If you put the object too near the eye,1 the eye cannot see it, That which is sensible put upon the sense, takes away sensation. Again, if the object be very remote, the eye cannot make any discovery of it, The eye cannot see far, and it cannot discern so far as it can see. We may see a thing, and not know what we see. But the eye of the Lord seeth and discerneth at all distances. There are none so near him, but he knows what they are; nearness doth not hinder his sight; and there are none so far from him, but he can discover what they are, remoteness doth not hinder his sight. And indeed all things are present with him, as in time, so in place; God is nearest, 2