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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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There's no temptation with which the children of God are mo•e oppressed, than with this; What they shall eat? and what they shall drink? and wherewithal shall they and theirs be clothed? n•r doth any thing cast them upon more dangerous rocks than these distrustful queries; How shall we live? and who shall provide for us, especially in a hard and dear year? But may we not s•an• amazed to hear such queries proceed out of their mouths, who have hea•d of this word which once proceeded out of Ch ists mouth, That God feedeth the Ravens? who believing that, can but believe that God will feed him! Nor doth the Lord provide for and feed the old Raven only, but his young ones also. As it follows, When his young ones cry unto God.
There's no temptation with which the children of God are mo•e opprest, than with this; What they shall eat? and what they shall drink? and wherewithal shall they and theirs be cloathed? n•r doth any thing cast them upon more dangerous rocks than these distrustful queries; How shall we live? and who shall provide for us, especially in a hard and dear year? But may we not s•an• amazed to hear such queries proceed out of their mouths, who have hea•d of this word which once proceeded out of Ch ists mouth, That God feedeth the Ravens? who believing that, can but beli•ve that God will feed him! Nor doth the Lord provide for and feed the old Raven only, but his young ones also. As it follows, When his young ones cry unto God.
The Raven in the former part of the verse, is the old one that hath young ones. How can that feed the you••, that cannot feed him self, but by Gods providing? As if the Lord had said, As it is not by thy providence, O Job, but by mine, that the old Ravens are fed; so that the young ones being early forsaken of the old, and wanting skill to shift for them selves, wandering here and there, have their cries (which nature hath taught them to put up to Go in their necessity) heard and answered with supply of food.