A35473:1501
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 13
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Secondly, The reins in a metaphor,1 signify that which is most secret, and hidden (Psal. 16.7.) My reins also instruct me in the night season; that is, my most inward thoughts instruct me, I have secret communion with my self, and my heart reads me a curtain Lecture every night; My reins instruct me in the night season. This metaphorical interpretation, gives us this plain Note.
Secondly, The reines in a metaphor,1 signifie that which is most secret, and hidden (Psal. 16.7.) My reines also instruct me in the night season; that is, my most inward thoughts instruct me, I have secret communion with my selfe, and my heart reads me a curtaine Lecture every night; My reines instruct mee in the night season. This metaphoricall interpretation, gives us this plaine Note.
- 1Renes occultissima denotant cor intelligit renes consulunt.
God pierceth into our most retired thoughts, and can punish our most secret sins.
God peirceth into our most retired thoughts, and can punish our most secret sins.
Those sins which lye as much out of sight, as the reins do, he seeth, and he seeth them as plainly as an Archer doth the White, or mark, which stands open to the eye; for all things are naked and manifest (anatomized, or cut open to the reins of the back, so much the word bears, and so manifest are we) before his eyes with whom we have to do.