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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 30
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.
First, By the breath of Gods mouth he shall go away; the breath of God may be taken two ways.
First, By the breath of Gods mouth he shall goe away; the breath of God may be taken two wayes.
Either first (as the flame before) for his anger, which is often expressed by puffing the breath.
Secondly, It may be taken for the decree, or determination of God.
Both these ways a wicked man goes away by the breath of God; first, by the anger of God, if God do but breath angerly upon him, he is blasted and gone, His glory and greatness languish before the least puff of Divine displeasure: God needs not make great preparations of Armies, or Forces, to contend with wicked men, he needs not raise Mounts and Batteries, to overthrow their best Fortifications of Riches and Honour. The Channels of waters were seen (saith David, Psal. 18.15.) and the foundations of the World were discovered, at thy rebuke O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. The Prophet tells