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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.
God hath given us great tokens and testimonies of his power in this. How many mountains, great mountains, men who were mountains, and things which stood like mountains in our way, how many (I say) of these hath the Lord removed? Our eyes have seen mountains removing, and mighty hills melting: the power of God, and the faith of his people have wrought such miracles in our days, He removeth the mountains.
God hath given us great tokens and testimonies of his power in this. How many mountains, great mountains, men who were mountains, and things which stood like mountains in our way, how many (I say) of these hath the Lord removed? Our eies have seen mountains removing, and mighty hils melting: the power of God, and the faith of his people have wrought such miracles in our daies, He removeth the mountains.
And they know it not.
They, who? who or what is the antecedent to this, They? 1are the mountains? So some understand it, and then the word know, or the act of knowing is by a figure ascribed (as many times in Scripture to creatures without reason, so) to creatures without life, Psal. 58.8. before your pots can feel the thorns; the Hebrew is, before your pots can understand or know the thorns, that is, before they are sensible of the heat of the fire to make them boil, &c. An act of sense, and is ascribed to pots,2 which are things insensible.
They, who? who or what is the antecedent to this, They?