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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 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.
We may conceive, the scope and intendment of the Lord in putting these questions to Job about the Unicorn, was to show, that if he could not time or reduce such a creature as the Unicorn to his Plough and Harrow, then he must not think of bringing God to his bow, who made both the Unicorn and man too. Surely God will be at his liberty, to do with man what he pleaseth, do man what he can, seeing the Unicorn will take liberty to do what he pleaseth, notwithstanding all that man can do. God will not be bound up to, nor tied by any mans dictates, but remains sovereignly free for ever, in all his dispensations. Thus of the ⟨p. 346⟩whole matter in general: I shall now open the particulars mentioned about this unserviceable creature the Unicorn.