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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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Secondly, Thus: Wilt thou believe that he will draw the cart, and so help thee home with thy corn at Harvest? This Exposition is most favoured, not only by our Translation, but by the words following in the latter part of the verse, both which intimate, that the seed here spoken of, is the seed reaped, rather than that to be sowed. Will he bring home thy seed, And gather it into thy barn?
Seed to be sowed, is carried into the field, not into the barn; seed or corn reaped, is carried into the barn, not into the field. As if it had been said, The Unicorn will do thee no service: As he would not go to plough, so neither will he go to cart, for the gathering of thy seed into thy barn. Sowing, reaping, and gathering into the barn, are the three principal parts of the Husband-mans labour; and therefore our Lord Jesus Christ showing how the fowls of the air live purely upon the providence of God without labour, saith (Mat. 6.26.) They sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feedeth them.
Seed to be sowed, is carried into the field, not into the barn; seed or corn reaped, is carried into the barn, not into the field. As if it had been said, The Unicorn will do thee no service: As he would not go to plow, so neither will he go to cart, for the gathering of thy seed into thy barn. Sowing, reaping, and gathering into the barn, are the three principal parts of the Husband-mans labour; and therefore our Lord Jesus Christ shewing how the fowls of the air live purely upon the providence of God without labour, saith (Mat. 6.26.) They sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feedeth them.