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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 15 › Verse 25
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.
He stretcheth out his hand against God.
Here are three things to be opened:1 First, What is meant by the hand. Secondly, What is meant by stretching out the hand. Thirdly, How the hand may be stretched out against God.
- 1Tanto supplicio nunc scelus dignissimum explicat. Pined.
The hand may be taken properly, or improperly; properly for that member of the body, which is so useful and instrumental in all the services of this life; and then to stretch out the hand, must be taken in a proper sense; for so wicked men sometimes do; they stretch out the hand of the body against ⟨p. 126⟩God, by acting sins of violence, and by acting violently in many sins.
The hand may be taken properly, or improperly; properly for that member of the body, which is so usefull and instrumentall in all the services of this life; and then to stretch out the hand, must be taken in a proper sense; for so wicked men sometimes doe; they stretch out the hand of the body against ⟨p. 126⟩God, by acting sins of violence, and by acting violently in many sins.