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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 5-8
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A barren place, and a salt place, are the same (Judg. 9.45.) When Abimeleck took that City, he sowed it with salt, in token that an everlasting curse of barrenness should come upon it, according to that (Psal. 107.34.) A fruitful land turned he into barrenness, the margin saith into saltness. Once more (Jer. 17.5, 6.) Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited, that is, in a barren land, unfit for any to inhabit. There is a reason in nature why salt land is barren; salt being hot and dry, draweth up the strength and moisture of the land that should make is fruitful: This salt or barren land, which yields little grass or herbage, the Lord hath appointed for the wild Ass to dwell in.
A barren place, and a salt place, are the same (Judg. 9.45.) When Abimeleck took that City, he sowed it with salt, in token that an everlasting curse of barrenness should come upon it, according to that (Psal. 107.34.) A fruitful land turned he into barrenness, the margin saith into saltness. Once more (Jer. 17.5, 6.) Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited, that is, in a barren land, unfit for any to inhabit. There is a reason in nature why salt land is barren; salt being hot and dry, draweth up the strength and moisture of the land that should make is fruitful: This salt or barren land, which yeilds little grass or herbage, the Lord hath appointed for the wild Ass to dwell in.