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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 35 › Verses 4-8
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Vers. 5. Look unto the Heavens, and see, behold the Clouds which are higher than thou.
1As if he had said, Look to the Heavens, and they'll answer thee; behold the Clouds, and they will confute thee: Thy very senses may convince thee, that thou hast spoken these things against Reason. And the Heavens will tell thee, that thy mistake in this matter is Heave•ly wide. If thou turn thy eyes upward, and considerest that distance which is between God, 2who hath Heaven for the Habitation of his Holiness, and of his Glory, and thee, who dwellest in thy house of Clay here on Earth, thou mayest see that thy sins cannot hurt him, nor thy goodness extend to him. The distance between Heaven and man is very great; but the distance between God and man is far greater; the one is immensurable, but the other is unimaginable, unconceivable. Therefore if the Heavens be so high, that thou canst not annoy them with thine Arrows, much less art thou able to annoy God, who is higher, and infinitely more out of Bow-shot and Gun-shot than the Heavens: That's the scope of his Argumentation here, to prove that Job could not, or that no man can hurt God by his sin.
1As if he had said, Look to the Heavens, and they'l answer thee; behold the Clouds, and they will confute thee: Thy very senses may convince thee, that thou hast spoken these things against Reason. And the Heave•s will tell thee, that thy mistake in this matter is Heave•ly wide. If thou turn thy eyes upward, and considerest that distance which is between God, 2who hath Heaven for the Habitation of his Hol•nesse, and of his Glory, and thee, who dwellest in thy house of Clay here on Earth, thou mayest see that thy sins cannot hurt him, nor thy goodnesse extend to him. The distance between Heaven and man is very great; but the distance between God and man is far greater; the one is immensurable, but the other is unimaginable, unconceiveable. Therefore if the Heavens be so high, that thou canst not annoy them with thine Arrows, much lesse art thou able to annoy God, who is higher, and infinitely more out of Bow-shot and Gun-shot than the Heavens: That's the scope of his Agumentation here, to prove that Job could not, or that no man can hurt God by his sin.