A35537:1660
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.
If (saith he) the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour that he die, he shall flee into one of those cities and live▪ (Deut. 19.5.) The reason of this Law is expressed (Exod. 21.13.) because in such contingent cases God delivers him into his hand; the man had no intent to hit his Neighbour, but fetching a blow, the head slieth from the helve, and both hits and kills him; and to show that this contingency was ordered by God, the text saith, God delivered him into his hand.
If (saith he) the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour that he die, he shall flee into one of those cities and live▪ (Deut. 19.5.) The reason of this Law is expressed (Exod. 21.13.) because in such con•ingent cases God delivers him into his hand; the man had no intent to hit his Neighbour, but fetching a blow, the head slieth from the helve, and both hits and kills him; and to shew that this contingency was ordered by God, the text saith, God delivered him into his hand.
And forasmuch as God hath such a power over the motions of the creature, it may be matter of comfort and encouragement to us, not only with respect to Thunder and Lightning, that we should not fear them, as the heathen, who neither know nor fear God; but we may take comfort from hence also, with respect to the most violent and hurried motions that we see here below. When ⟨p. 453⟩we find men acting like Thunder and Lightning, without deliberation, when they are all in passions and perturbations, yet let us know, these violent motions shall not fall any where by chance or hap hazard, nor by their own way, but as God appoints and over-rules them; they shall either fall quite besides the mark which men aimed at, and so do no hurt to any, or if they do, God orders what hurt they shall do He directeth it under the whole heaven. Let us carry this consideration always with us, and it will be a great stay to our minds in all the violent motions of the creature.