A35537:1790
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 6-8
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Secondly, When the beasts go into dens and remain in their places, what is it that moves them to it? Surely 'tis to be (as we say) out of harms way.
Hence note; Every creature by the light of nature would get out of danger.
Great snows and rains of strength are dangerous or g jevous to beasts, therefore they avoid them; they will not stand in the open air while a storm lasts, if they can help it. Beasts will save themselves as well as they can; and if so, then take these two Inferences from it.
Great snowes and rains of strength are dangerous or g ievous to beasts, therefore they avoid them; they will not stand in the open air while a storm lasts, if they can help it. Beasts will save themselves as well as they can; and if so, then take these two Inferences from it.
First, For our instruction. We are sent to school by God himself more than once to the beasts and creeping things of the earth. Solomon sends us to the Ant, a creeping thing, he bids us consider her ways, and be wise. Elihu, in this text, sends us to the wild beasts of the earth, to Lions and Bares, to Tigers and Wolves, and bids us consider their ways and be wise. Here is matter of instruction for us; What is that? Get out of harms way, make haste out of danger; when the cold Snow comes, and the great Rain of the strength of God, take heed you be not found abroad without a a shelter. Surely God who hath provided dens for the beasts, and places for those wild creatures to hide themselves in, hath not left us without a niding-place, when the great rains of trouble fall, or threaten to fall. God invited his people of old, where to look for and whither to go for shelter in such a rainy day (