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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.
They come to harder meat, they soon leave sucking and feed upon corn. Some read, they grow up in the fields, or by the field, that is, by that which groweth in the field. Thus it is with our Children, they are fed first at the breast & spoon, afterwards with flesh or any wholesome food. According to every degree of life, God provides suitable food; the Infant shall have milk, and when a little grown, stronger meat. As it is in spirituals, when we are new born babes in Jesus Christ, we are fed with milk, that is, with plain and easy truths, called by the Apostle, The first principles of the doctrine of Christ; afterwards we go on (as the Apostle there speaks) to perfection, and then we can digest and profit by the deeper Mysteries of the Gospel. Thus 'tis said of the young Hinds, or of the Hinds young ones in the Text, They grow up with corn.
They come to harder meat, they soon leave sucking and feed upon corn. Some read, they grow up in the fields, or by the field, that is, by that which groweth in the field. Thus it is with our Children, they are fed first at the breast & spoon, afterwards with flesh or any wholesom food. According to every degree of life, God provides sutable food; the Infant shall have milk, and when a little grown, stronger meat. As it is in spirituals, when we are new born babes in Jesus Christ, we are fed with milk, that is, with plain and easie truths, called by the Apostle, The first principles of the doctrine of Christ; afterwards we go on (as the Apostle there speaks) to perfection, and then we can digest and profit by the deeper Mysteries of the Gospel. Thus 'tis said of the young Hinds, or of the Hinds young ones in the Text, They grow up with corn.
The word signifies to grow apace, to thrive much in strength and stature, and being thus thriven and grown, their Dam's hear no more of them. For as it followeth ⟨p. 324⟩Thirdly, They go forth and return not unto them.