A35473:948
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 34
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.
1Secondly, They are fire, because of their destroying nature, so the Text speaks, it eats up, or devours. Fire is a great eater, fire hath a strong stomach; what will not fire digest? Fire will digest the whole sublunary World at last; The Element shall melt with fervent heat: Fire will digest Stones, Adamant, and iron. Such is the wrath of God, nothing can stand ⟨p. 195⟩before it, it will subdue the hardest materials, and toughest pieces. The hot stomach of the Ostrich (as some affirm) concocts Iron; what will not the heat of Gods anger concoct, and consume to ashes?
1Secondly, They are fire, because of their destroying nature, so the Text speaks, it eates up, or devoures. Fire is a great eater, fire hath a strong stomack; what will not fire digest? Fire will digest the whole sublunary World at last; The Element shall melt with fervent heat: Fire will digest Stones, Adamant, and iron. Such is the wrath of God, nothing can stand ⟨p. 195⟩before it, it will subdue the hardest materials, and toughest peices. The hot stomack of the Ostrich (as some affirme) concocts Iron; what will not the heat of Gods anger concoct, and consume to ashes?
- 1Os & lingua tribui solet igni nam dicitur lambere & depascere.
Thirdly, There is a mercilessness in the judgements of God, as in fire: We say, Fire, and Water have no mercy; there is no entreating them, they are not only hard, but impossible to be entreated. Such (in reference to wicked men) is the wrath of God; as good speak to fire not to burn, or to water not to drown, as to the wrath of God not to consume wicked men; it must and will do it (