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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 34-38
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As moisture loosens compacted things, so it compacts or knit, together loose things. The earth is soon made dust by droughts, and it would be a very dust-heap, if it had no moisture to reunite it. The Lord threatens his people, in case of disobedience ⟨p. 277⟩(Deut. 28.24.) to make the rain of their Land powder and dust; that is, they should have dust and powder, instead of water. Long drought turns the earth to dust. In this learn, how great a mercy there is in rain.
Secondly note, The Lord knows when the earth hath had sufficient rain.
And therefore (unless in judgement) he will not let the clouds run wast; he will stay his bottles from letting down one drop more, when once the dust (by rain falling upon it) groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together.