An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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 ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 34-38

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IN the context of these five Verses, return is made to the Meteors of Heaven. The Lord having questioned Job about the Stars, those pure heavenly bodies, the Pleiades, Orion, Mazzaroth, and Arcturus with his Sons; here puts the question afresh about the aerial bodies, or the natural works of God in the Air. The first question concerns the Clouds, and the effects or births of them, the waters.

IN the context of these five Verses, return is made to the Meteors of Heaven. The Lord having questioned Job about the Stars, those pure heavenly bodies, the Pleiades, Orion, Mazzaroth, and Arcturus with his Sons; here puts the question afresh about the aireal bodies, or the natural works of God in the Air. The first question concerns the Clouds, and the effects or births of them, the waters.

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Vers. 34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds?

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That is, canst thou do it effectually? Canst thou speak so loudly that the clouds above may hear thee; and so powerfully, that they will obey thee? Any man, the meanest man may lift up his voice toward the clouds; but no man, no not the mightiest man, can lift up his voice to the clouds and be heard; that is, be obeyed by them: Thou canst not command the clouds. Though a man speak, and speak aloud, though he lift up his voice (as God bid the Prophet to his people) like a Trumpet, to the clouds, yet the clouds will be deaf at his voice, as deaf as sinners commonly are at the voice of a Prophet, though lifted up like a Trumpet. The voice here intended, is an effectual voice; such a voice to the clouds is proper and peculiar to God alone,¹ whose power and Empire is so great and large, that he can stretch forth his voice to the clouds far and near all the air over, and cause them both to appear

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