A35537:255
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 35 › Verses 9-13
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.
Here it may be queried, how doth God give them songs in the night? I shall not insist upon those conjectures, which some have made about this giving songs in the night. As First, implying God ⟨p. 71⟩so gracious, that he giveth us not only in the day, but in the night, occasion of joy in sorrow, namely, the view and contemplation of the Heavens and Stars, which are very pleasant and refreshing, (Psal. 19.1.)
Here it may be queried, how doth God give them songs in the night? I shall not insist upon those conjectures, which some have made about this giving songs in the night. As First, implying God ⟨p. 71⟩so gracious, that he giveth us not only in the day, but in the night, occasion of joy in sorrow, namely, the view and contemplation of the Heavens and Starrs, which are very pleasant and refreshing, (Psal. 19.1.)
Others, Secondly, conjecture, that God may be said to give the sorrowful and oppressed ones songs in the night, by the singing of birds in the night, of that bird especially which hath its name from singing in the night, the Nightingale. Some insist much upon these interpretations. It is, I grant, a great mercy of God that when the Sun is down, we have Moon-light and Star-light, and that in the night we have the innocent harmless birds to sing and make us pleasant melody. But leaving these, we may take the words in a double notion; First, Properly; Secondly, Metaphorically.
Others, Secondly, conjecture, that God may be said to give the sorrowful and oppressed ones songs in the night, by the singing of birds in the night, of that bird especially which hath its name from singing in the night, the Nightingal. Some insist much upon these interpretations. It is, I grant, a great mercy of God that when the Sun is down, we have Moon-light and Star-light, and that in the night we have the innocent harmless birds to sing and make us pleasant melody. But leaving these, we may take the words in a double notion; First, Properly; Secondly, Metaphorically.