A35537:1906
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 12-13
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.
The first of these and the last concern Man more specially; the second concerns all other creatures, both Plants and Beasts of the earth; it concerns all, from the Cedar in Lebanon to the Hyssop ⟨p. 514⟩on the wall, among the Plants, and from the Lion to the Mouse, or to the least of living or sensible creatures among the Beasts; all w•ich God, according to his Sovereign Power, and Justice, doth either comfort or afflict as he pleaseth.
The first of these and the last concern Man more specially; the second concerns all other creatures, both Plants and Beasts of the earth; it concerns all, from the Cedar in Lebanon to the Hysop ⟨p. 514⟩on the wall, among the Plants, and from the Lion to the Mouse, or to the least of living or sensible creatures among the Beasts; all w•ich God, according to his Soveraign Power, and Justice, doth either comfo•t or afflict as he pleaseth.
Again, The ends which God aimeth at respecting Man, are either for Correction or for Mercy.
1First, He causeth the Cloud, with whatsoever is its burden, Hail, or Rain, or Snow, to unlade and disburden it self, for correction, The Hebrew is, for a Rod, so we put in the Margin. A Rod is for correction; therefore we translate for correction, for discipline. God sends t•• Clouds to whip or discipline a people. Further, the wd signifies a Rod under a twofold Notion.