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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
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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.
The outward members, especially the hand and tongue, are made the weapons of unrighteousness, both against God and Man.
The outward members, especially the hand and tongue, are made the weapons of unrighteousnesse, both against God and Man.
1The Church-Historian reports of Julian the Apostate, that when he was wounded in the Battle against the Parthians, he took of his blood, and threw it up to Heaven, he stretched out his hand against God, saying, in derision of Christ, O Galilean thou hast overcome: This outward gesture of his body, expressed the secret indignation of his mind. And it is observed by Jerome, 2