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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 39-41
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God feeds not only Sheep and Lambs, but Wolves and Lions. This note gives us the chief scope of the whole context, which is to show the care of God over all. It is said (Psal. 104.21.) The young Lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. It is a strange expression, that young Lions when they roar after their prey, should be said to seek their meat of God; implying, that neither their own strength nor craft could feed them without help from God. The strongest creatures left to themselves cannot help themselves. As they who fear God are fed by a special providence of God, so all creatures are fed and nou i•hed by a general providence. The Lion, though he be strong and subtle, yet cannot get his own prey; we think, a Lion might shift for himself, no, 'tis the Lord that provides for him; the young Lions seek their meat of God: Surely then, the mightiest of men cannot live upon themselves, as it is of God that we receive life and breath, so all things needful for the maintenance of this life. The Prophet Jeremiah gives check to all flesh (Chap. 9.23.) Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom; let not the mighty man glory in his might. As if he had said, neither a wise man by his wisdom, nor a mighty man by his might, can bring any work to an effectual issue. That is also the conclusion which the Spirit of God made, by the wisest and one of the mightest men that ever was in the world, King Solomon (Eccles. 9.11.) The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all: though men have suitable qualities and abilities for the attaining of their ends (what suits better the winning of a race than swiftness?) yet they cannot attain them, without the power and presence of God in some kind and degree or o•her; the strong Lions would starve, did not the Lord help them to hunt their prey.
God feeds not only Sheep and Lambs, but Wolves and Lions. This note gives us the chief scope of the whole con•ext, which is to shew the care of God over all. It is said (Psal. 104.21