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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
F•u thly, The Hind loves high places, or to be and breath in the free air. Thus the Prophet Habakkuk speaks of himself (Hab. 3.19.) The Lord will make my feet like Hinds feet, he will make me walk upon my high places. He means not the high places of worldly preferment or power, but of peace and safety; nor either of them, so much as those truly high places of a holy life and ⟨p. 314⟩joy, in spiritual meditation and conversation, to which we resort by the wings of saith in, and love unto God. Upon these high places thou wilt make me to walk. As if the Prophet had said, I shall go lightly and sweetly on in my journey to heaven, having my soul supplied and suppled (as it were) with the oil of spiritual joy and gladness. As it is said of Jacob (Gen. 29.1.) after that he had that blessed vision at Bethel, in the close of the 28th Chapter) He we•t on his journey; or (as we put in the margin) He lift up his feet; his feet were like Hinds feet, lithe and nimble for his journey, going on in faith towards God, and in the light of his countenance.
F•u thly, The Hind loves high places, or to be and breath in the free air. Thus the Prophet Habakkuk speaks of himself (Hab. 3.19.) The Lord will make my feet like Hinds feet, he will make me walk upon my high places. He means not the high places of worldly preferment or power, but of peace and safety; nor either of them, so much as those truly high places of a holy life and ⟨p. 314⟩joy, in spiritual meditation and conversation, to which we resort by the wings of saith in, and love unto God. Ʋpon these high places thou wilt make me to walk. As if the Prophet had said, I shall go lightly and sweetly on in my journey to heaven, having my soul supplied and suppled (as it were) with the oyl of spiritual joy and gladness. As it is said of Jacob (