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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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Every one loves its like.
A Raven doth not love her young, till she perceives them in her own likeness. It is said also of the Eagle, that when her young are first hatched, she will not own them for hers, till having held them up to the Sun, she finds they out-face it; & here 'tis said, the Raven will not own her young till they are black. Now, if it be thus in nature, if it be a truth, that the Raven is not delighted in her young till they grow black, 'tis doubtless true in spirituals, like to like. God loves none with delight, but holy and pure ones, and the more holy and pure any are, the more he loves them; the reason is, because himself is altogether infinitely pure and holy. Where God sees most of his own image, which is purity and holiness, there he loves most, and for such he will certainly provide, such he will surely feed.
A Raven doth not love her young, till she perceives them in her own likeness. It is said also of the Eagle, that when her young are first hatcht, she will not own them for hers, till having held them up to the Sun, she finds they out-face it; & here 'tis said, the Raven will not own her young till they are black. Now, if it be thus in nature, if it be a truth, that the Raven is not delighted in her young till they grow black, 'tis doubtless true in spirituals, like to like. God loves none with delight, but holy and pure ones, and the more holy and pure any are, the more he loves them; the reason is, because himself is altogether infinitely pure and holy. Where God sees most of his own image, which is pu•ity and holiness, there he loves most, and for such he will certainly provide, such he will surely feed.
But, which way soever the young ones of the Raven come to want food, whether it be through the forgetfulness, or the unnaturalness of the old Raven, or because they are hatchr white, upon what account soever (I say) it is, that they come to want food, the Text saith they are in such want, that they cry to God, yea, that They wander for lack of meat.