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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.
The Ancients were very frequent in this kind of study,1 perusing the book of nature, and taking helps to better the understanding by every object of the eye. It is well observed by one of them, That God sent us the book of nature, before he sent the book of Scripture. The mind of God was written upon the things which he had made, before he made tables or books to write his mind in. The Fathers had many revelations from the beginning, but they had not Scripture from the beginning. Some conceive that Isaac going out into the fields to meditate, meditated upon the text of the creature, and used to raise his heart by those steps of earth to heavenly contemplations. It is said of Solomon (1 King. 4.32, 33.) That he spake three thousand Proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five, and that he spake of trees, from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; which* Josephus expounds thus, Solomon applied his three thousand parables or similitudes unto those trees or plants about which he discoursed, drawing some divine moral from every plant, whose nature as a Philosopher he had described.
The Ancients were very frequent in this kinde of study,1 perusing the book of nature, and taking helps to better the understanding by every object of the eye. It is well observed by one of them, That God sent us the book of nature, before he sent the book of Scripture. The minde of God was written upon the things which he had made, before he made tables or books to write his minde in. The Fathers had many revelations from the beginning, but they had not Scripture from the beginning. Some conceive that Isaac going out into the fields to meditate, meditated upon the text of the creature, and used to raise his heart by those steps of earth to heavenly contemplations. It is said of Solomon (1 King. 4.32, 33.) That he spake three thousand Proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five, and that he spake of trees, from the Cedar tree that is in Leba••n, even unto the hysop that springeth out of the wall; which