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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.
Thirdly, It may be understood of ordinary eclipses, which are disappearings of the Sun: and though they come in a course of nature, and are by natural light fore-seen many years before they come, yet there is somewhat in them, which should fill us with high thoughts of the power of God. And though an eclipse of the Sun be no miracle, yet God once made, and can again make a miraculous eclipse. When Christ the Sun of righteousness was shamefully crucified, the Sun in the heavens (as ashamed to look upon that act (as from man) of prodigious cruelty and injustice) hid his face; and from the sixth hour (that is,1 from high-noon) there was darkness over all the Land unto the ninth hour; that is, till three in the afternoon, Matth. 27.45. This eclipse was miraculous; first, because it was the full of the moon. Which (as we receive from Antiquity) caused a great Philosopher (not knowing what was doing, or who was suffering at Jerusalem) to cry out, Either the God of nature suffers, or the frame of nature dissolves.
Thirdly, It may be understood of ordinary eclipses, which are disappearings of the Sunne: and though they come in a course of nature, and are by naturall light fore-seen many years before they come, yet there is somewhat in them, which should fill us with high thoughts of the power of God. And though an eclipse of the Sun be no miracle, yet God once made, and can again make a miraculous eclipse. When Christ the Sun of righteousnes was shamefully crucified, the Sun in the heavens (as ashamed to look upon that act (as from man) of prodigious cruelty and injustice) hid his face; and from the sixth hour (that is,1 from high-noon) there was darknesse over all the Land unto the ninth hour; that is, till three in the afternoon, Matth. 27.45. This eclipse was miraculous; first, because it was the full of the moon. Which (as we receive from Antiquitie) caused a great Philosopher (not knowing what was doing, or who was suffering at Jerusalem) to cry out, Either the God of nature suffers, or the frame of nature dissolves.
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