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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.
There are natural mountains, and metaphorical or figurative mountains: it is an act of the mighty power of God to remove either.
There are naturall mountains, and metaphoricall or figurative mountains: it is an act of the mighty power of God to remove either.
Some understand this of metaphorical or figurative mountains, and so mountains are great men, men of eminency, or of preeminency, the Kings and Princes of the world.1 The Chaldee is express for this sense, He removeth Kings, who are as strong and high as mountains. For as God hath ordered the superficies of the earth, and made some parts of it plain, others mountainous, some valleys and some hills. So he hath disposed of men, some men stand as upon level ground, men of an ordinary condition; others are as the low valleys, men of a poor condition; others are as the high mountains over-topping and over-looking the rest. The word is ⟨p. 172⟩used in this metaphorical sense, Isa. 41.15. I will make thee (saith the Lord to the Prophet) a new threshing instrument having teeth; And what shall this new threshing instrument do? Thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Here is a Prophet sent with a flail or a threshing instrument, and his business is to thresh the mountains, and to beat the hills: the meaning is, thou shalt destroy the great ones of the world, the hills, the mountains, those that think themselves impregnable or inaccessible. But how could the Prophet thresh these mountains, and what was his flail? Gideon (Judg. 8.7.) threatens the men of Succoth, that he will tear or thresh their flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with briars. And Damascus is threatened, because they threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron, Am. 1.3. That is, they put them to extremest tortures. Our Prophet could not thus torture men. His threshing instrument having iron teeth, was only his tongue, the instrument of speech, With this he beat those proud mountains to dust, that is, he declared they should be beaten and destroyed. Of such a mountain, the Lord by his Prophet speaks (