A35537:1655
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 37 › Verses 3-5
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.
Naturalists define or describe Lightning thus;1 'Tis a bright shining, caused by exhalations fired in and violently breaking out of the Clouds. The Hebrew is, his light. The Sun is the fountain of Light, and that is eminently Gods Light; but the Light here spoken of, is not the ordinary Light shining in the Air, by the rising of the Sun; this Light is Lightning, which is a sudden flashing or breaking forth of light from the Clouds; as when a gun is fired or discharged, a light flasheth from it; such is that which Authors of all sorts call Lightning, and here the Scripture calls his Lightning. At the 3d Verse the Thunder was called his Voice, the Voice of God; and in this, the Lightning is called his Lightning; Elihu appropriates it unto God himself, his Lightning. This Lightning hath more than light in it, it hath heat and fire in it; though we do not always feel it, yet many have, the effects of heat and fire appearing sadly upon them. And this is such a fire as water cannot quench; and therefore we often read in Scripture,2 of Lightning joined with the Rain (Psal. 135.7. Jer. 10.13. Jer. 51.16.) which may be remarked as one of the wonders of it. There is a second, that the Lightning is said to fall from heaven. When the disciples brought a report back to Christ what great things they had done, what conquests they had got over evil spirits, Christ answered (Luke 10.18.) I saw Satan like Lightning fall from heaven. Lightning falls from heaven; for though Lightning of its own nature (being fiery) should ascend, yet it descends through the power of God. Naturalists observe it as a wonder, that the Lightning should descend: Seneca demonstrates, it could not be, unless there were a divine power in it, that the Lightning ⟨p. 450⟩should come down from heaven; and as Elihu said before, he directeth it, or the Thunder, under the whole heaven; so we are here to take up that word again, and say, He directeth his Lightning To the ends of the earth.