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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 31-33
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We can neither bind what God lets loose,1 nor loosen what God binds. What Christ affirmed of himself in regard of spirituals (Rev. 3.7.) These things saith he that hath the key of David, that openeth and no man shutteth, that shutteth and no man openeth; the same is true also in regard of naturals, and therefore the Lord had no sooner said to Job, Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, but he adds, or loose the bands of Orion?
- 1Tune coeli & naturae ordinem immutabis, ut quod Astrum Pleiadum sol vit constringas aut quod Orion constringit, solvas Merc.
There are several opinions concerning these two Constellations of heaven, yet all agree in this; that one of them is a benign Constellation, and very comfortable to the fruits of the earth, and that the other is as sharp and churlish; that the one is very friendly and favourable to all living creatures, but that the other is a bitter, and as it were a killing Constellation; and therefore the Lord saith, Canst thou loose the bands of O•ion? When once Orion hath and holds the earth, as it were in bands and chains; when Orion hath got the earth in his clutches, and hugs it, in appearance, to death, in his cold arms, who can rescue it?1 The Pleiades open the earth, and set all free; they call up the quickening moisture, and draw out the verdure of every growing thing: But Orion holds all in bands, Orion is a hard natured Constellation, the Original word signifies to be unconstant, vexatious, and unquiet; because, under the Dominion of this Star, the air is usually troublesome and unquiet.
There are several opinions concerning these two Constellations of heaven, yet all agree in this; that one of them is a benigne Constellation, and very comfortable to the fruits of the earth, and that the other is as sharp and churlish; that the one is very friendly and favourable to all living creatures, but that the other is a bitter, and as it were a killing Constellation; and therefore the Lord saith, Canst thou loose the bands of Oion? When once Orion hath and holds the earth, as it were in bands and chains; when Orion hath got the earth in his clutches, and huggs it, in appearance, to death, in his cold armes, who can rescue it?