A35537:1674
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.
1Fourthly, There is a rumbling Thunder. We sometimes hear only a rushing in the clouds, no crack of Thunder breaking our.
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Sixthly, There is a whispering Thunder, I may call it a kind of silent o• still-voiced Thunder; possibly that was such spoken of (1 Kings 19.12.) After the fire, a still small voice. As also that when Jesus Christ was baptized by John in Jordan (Matth. 3.17.) And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased; 'Tis conceived, that voice came in a still whispering Thunder. Such doubtless was that Thunder (John 12.28, 29.) when Christ prayed, Father, glorify thy Name; then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. At the hearing of this voice, the people that stood by, said that it thundered, others said, that an Angel spake to him. This voice was an articulate sound coming with the Thunder; and the Hebrew word which we commonly translate voices, signifieth thunder. The Jewish Writers tell us that (Bath col) the daughter of voice (which they reckon the only way of divine revelation, left them after the Babylonish Captivity) was the will of God made known to them immediately from heaven by this sort of Thunder. Thunders and voices are often joined in the Book of the Revelations (Chap. 4.5. chap. 8.5.) implying, the revelation of those prophetic wonders, was made by Voices accompanied with Thunder. And thus those two texts which seem contradictory may be reconciled,