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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 36 › Verse 26
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How ought we to reverence and adore God! We have a Command from God to reverence those who have attained many years in this world, which alas are very few, none at all to the years of God; the aged, the grey-headed must be reverenced, (Lev. 19.32.) And one reason of that Law may be, because the aged have some shadow of Gods eternity upon them; they who have many years have some resemblance of him, the number of whose years cannot be searched out; therefore God will have them reverenced. Now if the ancient are to be reverenced, how much more God himself, who is called (Dan. 7.9.) The ancient of days!
How ought we to reverence and adore God! We have a Command from God to reverence those who have attained many years in this world, which alass are very few, none at all to the years of God; the aged, the gray-headed must be reverenced, (Lev. 19.32.) And one reason of that Law may be, because the aged have some shadow of Gods eternity upon them; they who have many years have some resemblance of him, the number of whose years cannot be searched out; therefore God will have them reverenced. Now if the ancient are to be reverenced, how much more God himself, who is called (Dan. 7.9.) The ancient of dayes!
Fifthly, If God be eternal, then, we may trust him, yea therefore we ought to trust him, (Psal. 74.12.) Thou art my King of old, commanding deliverances. O how did Davids confidence arise upon this, that God who was King of old, is King now, and will be King for ever, (Psal. 10.16.) The Lord is King for ever and ever; the Heathen are perished out of his Land, that is, they shall surely perish. God will not always bear with evil men in his Land; For if because God was King of all the Lands, he therefore drave the old Heathen out of Canaan, and planted his people there; doubtless, if they who bear the name of his people there, live so like the old Heathen that they may be called Heathen, he will also cause them to perish out of his Land, and all because he is King for ever and ever, and therefore can do it at one time as well as at another, and now as easily as at any time heretofore. Trust in the Lord for ever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength, (