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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 1-3
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'Tis no argument, that God is not with us, when storms and whirl-winds are up, whether with respect to Nations and Churches, or particular Persons. Do not think God is gone because there is a storm. Read (Psal. 18. v. 6, 7, 8. Psal. 23.4. Psal. 91.15. Isa. 43.2, 3.) and you shall find that in the worst appearances the Lord is present. The Prophet speaks it expressly (Nahum 1.3.) The Lord hath his way in the Whirl-wind, and in the storm, and the Clouds are the dust of his feet. When and where it's dark and troublesome the Lord is there, and there he is most; that's the Prophets meaning also, when he saith, The Clouds are the dust of his feet. By Clouds we may understand, not so much the Clouds of the Air, as cloudy Providences; these are round about him, while Judgment and Justice, yea while Mercy and Goodness are the habitation of his Throne. And these Clouds may be called the dust of his feet in a Figure; we know where Travellers pass often, their feet make a dust; now it shows that the Lord doth act much in the Clouds, that is in dark Providences, because 'tis said, They are the dust of his feet, as if he moved so much and so long in them, that he raised a dust with his motion. Do not think the Lord is gone, when whirl-winds and storms, that is outward troubles, come. The Lord answers out of the whirl-wind as often as he answers us by terrible things in Righteousness; and thus he often answers us (Psal. 65.5.)
'Tis no argument, that God is not with us, when storms and whirl-winds are up, whether with respect to Nations and Churches, or particular Persons. Do not think God is gone because there is a storm. Read (Psal. 18. v. 6, 7, 8. Psal. 23.4. Psal. 91.15.