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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
Fifthly, God foresheweth what shall come to pass, he reveals his own counsels, as to future providences, by dreams and visions. The seven years of famine were revealed to Pharaoh in a dream. And the great things of the Church, and of the world too, were revealed to Daniel in a dream, and in visions of his head upon his bed (Dan: 7.1.) The message of the dream in the text was for instruction and admonition, as will appear at the sixteenth verse; God speaketh in a dream; and further In a vision of the night.
Fifthly, God foresheweth what shall come to passe, he reveals his own counsels, as to future providences, by dreames and visions. The seven years of famine were revealed to Pharoah in a dreame. And the great things of the Church, and of the world too, were revealed to Daniel in a dreame, and in visions of his head upon his bed (Dan: 7.1.) The message of the dreame in the text was for instruction and admonition, as will appeare at the sixteenth verse; God speaketh in a dream; and further In a vision of the night.
Some take vision here as a second way of divine revelation. And 'tis true, the Scripture speaks of dreams and visions distinctly (Numb: 12.6.) Others make visions to be only appurtenances to dreams; For though there have been visions without dreams, yet dreams are seldom, if at all, without some kind of vision. This seems the intendment of this text, In a dream, in a vision of the night; That is, in a dream with a vision of the night, as making the vision to be nothing else, but either a representation of the matter dreamed of, or of the manner wherein it was represented to the dreamer. And I conceive, that Elihu in this verse is speaking only of one, not of two ways of Gods revealing himself to man; or rather of one then two. Yet whether we ⟨p. 284⟩take the vision distinctly from or jointly with the dream, the scope of Elihu in this text is equally answered and fulfilled.
Some take vision here as a second way of divine revelation. And 'tis true, the Scripture speakes of dreams and visions distinctly (Numb: 12.6.) Others make visions to be only appurtenances to dreams; For though there have been visions without dreams, yet dreams are seldome, if at all, without some kind of vision. This seemes the intendment of this text, In a dream, in a vision of the night; That is, in a dream with a vision of the night, as making the vision to be nothing else, but either a representation of the matter dreamed of, or of the manner wherein it was represented to the dreamer. And I conceive, that Elihu in this verse is speaking only of one, not of two wayes of Gods revealing himselfe to man; or rather of one then two. Yet whether we