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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 1-3
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Note; God will humble all men, his own people especially, and make them know themselves.
God will make all men know who they are, who himself is, and what they have done or spoken. When the Scripture saith, who is this? and what is man? When the Scripture asketh what, or who we are? it is either to abase the pride of man, or to convince him of his base fear of the proudest men, as appears specially in these two Scriptures. When good men are over-troubled at, or afraid of the power of man, then the Lord chides and shames them with this question (Isa. 51.12.) Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man? As if he had said, what a fool art thou, what an ignorant creature are thou; the Lord spake there to his own people, and to them altogether, as is they were but one man) Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall dye, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker? What a kind of creature art thou, to set so much by a man (let him be who he will) that thou shouldest be unduly afraid of him, who by nature is like thy self, frail and mortal, is if thou hadst nor the immortal God thy Maker for thy helper and defender! They act below men, who over-fear men, while they are in a way of duty to God. Who art thou, &c.
God will make all men know who they are, who himself is, and what they have done or spoken. When the Scripture saith, who is this? and what is man? When the Scripture asketh what, or who we are? it is either to abase the pride of man, or to convince him of his base fear of the proudest men, as appears specially in these two Scriptures. When good men are over-troubled at, or afraid of the power of man, then the Lord chides and shames them with this question (Isa. 51.12.) Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man? As if he had said, what a fool art thou, what an ignorant creature are thou; the Lord spake there to his own people, and to them altogether, as is they were but one man) Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall dye, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker? What a kind of creature art thou, to set so much by a man (let him be who he will) that thou shouldest be unduely afraid of him, who by nature is like thy self, frail and mortal, is if thou hadst nor the immortal God thy Maker for thy helper and defender! They act below men, who over-fear men, while they are in a way of duty to God. Who art thou, &c.