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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.
Further, To stretch out the hand, imports four things.
Further, To stretch out the hand, imports foure things.
First, To do a thing with the utmost intention of mind ⟨p. 127⟩and body, to do it with all our might and fullest resolution. Joshua being resolved to bring total destruction upon the men of Ai, Drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out his Spear, till he utterly destroyed all the Inhabitants of Ai (Josh. 8.26.) The stretching forth of his hand was emblematical, speaking, or implying that his spirit kept up to the height of resolution, for the ruin of that City and people.
First, To doe a thing with the utmost intention of minde ⟨p. 127⟩and body, to doe it with all our might and fullest resolution. Joshua being resolved to bring totall destruction upon the men of Ai, Drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out his Speare, till he utterly destroyed all the Inhabitants of Ai (Josh. 8.26.) The stretching forth of his hand was emblematicall, speaking, or implying that his spirit kept up to the height of resolution, for the ruine of that City and people.