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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.
But others take the antecedent to be man, He removeth the mountains, and they know it not; that is, men know it not. So Master Broughton translates, He removeth the mountains that ⟨p. 178⟩men cannot mark how he hath removed them out of their place in his anger.
1Supposing men to be the antecedent, there is yet a difference about the interpretation. Men, that is, say some, unskilful men, ignorant men, they know not the meaning of this, they cannot give a reason why or how mountains are removed; if God doth it they know it not. Others restrain it to men, inhabiting the mountains, they were secure, and thought their dwellings so safe, that God removed their mountain before they dreamed of, much less feared any such thing; they had no thought that God would remove their mountain. Places strongly fortified either by art or nature, make men secure, and dangers unsuspected. The deluge in Noah's time prevailed over the highest mountains;2 but his sinful posterity hoped to make an artificial mountain, wherein they might even dare a second deluge. Come, let us build us a City and a Tower, whose top may reach to heaven (Gen. 11.4.) and then (except the stars and firmament be flooded) we shall be dry, how much or how long so ever it rains. Such towering thoughts, as these, were (surely) laid in the foundation of that intended Tower.
1Supposing men to be the antecedent, there is yet a difference about the interpretation. Men, that is, say some, unskilfull men, ignorant men, they know not the meaning of this, they cannot give a reason why or how mountains are removed; if God doth it they know it not. Others restrain it to men, inhabiting the mountains, they were secure, and thought their dwellings so safe, that God removed their mountain before they dream'd of, much lesse feared any such thing; they had no thought that God would remove their mountain. Places strongly fortified either by art or nature, make men secure, and dangers unsuspected. The deluge in Noahs time prevailed over the highest mountains;