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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 9-12
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The second labour with which beasts are wrought in husbandry, is harrowing the ground; the Unicorn will not touch that, as 'tis said in the close of the 10th verse, Will he harrow the valleys after thee? No, he will neither plough nor harrow, he will do none of these works though he have strength enough to do them, as appears (vers. 11.) Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
The third part of husbandry, about which beasts are used, is the bringing of the Corn in, or the home-bringing of it; the Unicorn will lend no help to that work neither, as is showed in the 12th verse, Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
The third part of husbandry, about which beasts are used, is the bringing of the Corn in, or the home-bringing of it; the Unicorn will lend no help to that work neither, as is shewed in the 12th verse, Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Thus the Unicorn will neither serve in general, nor do any of these particular services; he will neither plough nor harrow, nor bring home the seed. The Unicorn is a beast unsubject to, and unsubduable by man, yet subject to God, and by him easily subduable; for (as the Apostle spake in another case, Phil. 3.21.) He is able to subdue all things to himself.