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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.
Besides, the text saith, ⟨p. 184⟩He shaketh the earth [out] of her place.
Whereas an earthquake shakes the earth in her place, and causes it to tremble upon the pillars thereof.
But did God ever shake the earth out of her place? We must understand the text conditionally. We have not any instance that the Lord hath actually done so, but this supposition may be put. The Lord can remove mountains and shake the earth, not only in, but out of her place. We find such conditional expressions often put in Scripture, not as if the things ever had been, or ever should be done, but if the Lord will, he is able to do them (Amos 9.5.) The Lord God of Hosts is he that toucheth the land, 1and it shall melt; that is, if the Lord do but touch the land he can melt it. As the three children cast into a fiery furnace, had not so much as a garment, or a thread about them touched with it, because the Lord forbade the fire to burn: So, if the Lord bid a spark but touch us, it shall melt and consume us, as if we were cast into and continued in a fiery furnace. As a word made, so a touch shall mar the world, when God will; yet he hath not done thus unto this day. So in the text, He shakes the earth out of her place, imports what God can, not what he hath or will do. Note from it,
But did God ever shake the earth out of her place? We must understand the text conditionally. We have not any instance that the Lord hath actually done so, but this supposition may be put. The Lord can remove mountains and shake the earth, not only in, but out of her place. We finde such conditionall expressions often put in Scripture, not as if the things ever had been, or ever should be done, but if the Lord will, he is able to doe them (