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

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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

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:1102p. 260

The holy history makes the same report (1 Kings 18 45.) And it came to pass in the mean while that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain, &c. If we would have rain, we must ask for it, and lift up a praying voice to God, who commands the clouds; it is a vain thing for us to lift up a voice to the clouds in our own name, to command them to give us rain in the season of it.

:1103p. 260–261

And as this is true of the clouds and rain, so of all creatures, ⟨p. 261⟩Their powers and virtues, their efficacies and influences are not at our command, but if we look up to God and wait upon him in prayer, he can command them all to give out their virtues both to serve our necessities and accommodate our delights. Now, as in this question God shows Job his insufficiency to command water, so in the next to command fire from the clouds.

And as this is true of the clouds and rain, so of all creatures, ⟨p. 261⟩Their powers and vertues, their efficacies and influences are not at our command, but if we look up to God and wait upon him in prayer, he can command them all to give out their vertues both to serve our necessities and accommodate our delights. Now, as in this question God shews Job his insufficiency to command water, so in the next to command fire from the clouds.

:1104p. 261

Vers. 35. Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, here we are?

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