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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 39 › Verse 1-4
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Lastly, It is said of the wild Goats, that when they receive hurt, they, by a natural instinct, seek out the herb Betony, growing among the rocks and upon mountains, which gives a present and perfect cure to their bruises or hurts. Thus when good ⟨p. 311⟩men receive hurt in and from the evil world, they have some herb or other, some comfort or other for their cure; they go to the Word of God, to the Scriptures, there they find Medicine for all their sicknesses, Betony for all thei• bruises, and a Salve for every sore. Thus we may spiritualize our meditations upon these wild creatures the Goats of the rocks, in allusion to the state of godly men in this life. Knowest thou the time when the wild Goats of the rock bring forth?
Lastly, It is said of the wild Goats, that when they receive hurt, they, by a natural instinct, seek out the herb Betany, growing among the rocks and upon mountains, which gives a present and perfect cure to their bruises or hurts. Thus when good ⟨p. 311⟩men receive hurt in and from the evil world, they have some herb or other, some comfort or other for their cure; they go to the Word of God, to the Scriptures, there they find Medicine for all their sicknesses, Betany for all thei• bruises, and a Salve for every sore. Thus we may spiritualize our meditations upon these wild creatures the Goats of the rocks, in allusion to the state of godly men in this life. Knowest thou the time when the wild Goats of the rock bring forth?
Or canst thou mark when the Hinds do calve?