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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 19-20
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God dwells in the light which no man can approach unto (1 Tim. 6.16.) Mans darkness is not able to comprehend Gods light; if he venture too near it, he will soon be swallowed up. The vulgar Latin renders that place (Proverbs 25.27.) He that is a searcher of Majesty shall be oppressed by the Glory; 1that is, whosoever searcheth boldly into the Majesty of God, shall be swallowed up by the Glory of God. We translate that text in the Proverbs thus, For men to search their own glory, is no glory. There is a truth in the former translation, though it be not a true translation, for, a man that searcheth into the Majesty of God, shall be overpowered with his Glory. And as man is soon overpowered, or swallowed up by the Majesty of God, so also by and in the Mysteries of God. Ch ••• told his disciples (John 16.12.) That he had many things to say unto them, which they were not able to bear. If they who had received so much grace, could not bear the deeper mysteries ⟨p. 593⟩of the Gospel, spoken to them by Christ clothed with frail flesh, how much less can any man bear the Majesty o• God in speaking to him, or, God speaking to him in his Majesty! And so some translate and read the words of Elihu in the text under hand, For if he speak, man shall be devoured or swallowed up; that is, if God speak, man (who before thought himself Some-body, or that he was able to reason with him) will be quite confounded in himself by the infinite wisdom of God, his tongue will falter or cleave to the roof of his mouth, and he rendered unable to speak one word in his own defence. Moses (Exod. 19.12.) was commanded to set bounds about Mount Horeb, that the people might not come too near; the reason was, that the people might by those bounds be warned, not to be curious or over-bold in their approaches to the Majesty of God, nor over-busy in prying into his Secrets. As if it had been said, if you come to near, you will be even swallowed up. Moses repeating to the Israelites the terrible Majesty of God in giving the Law at Mount Horeb, minds them in what a trembling frame they then were (