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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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it will come back to the barn, it will come home again, and that with a great increase. And doubtless where there hath been a ploughing up of the heart by a work of grace, there will be a free sowing in every good work. And though we are not to do good works, merely eying a return, ⟨p. 380⟩or our personal advantage, yet we may have an eye to it, as Moses had in his holy sufferings and services, to the recompense of reward: yea, and take encouragement from the Lords bounty, to be more in duty, more in charity, even unto bounty. We may consider the harvest while we are diligent in sowing, yea, to make us more diligent in sowing.
it will come back to the barn, it will come home again, and that with a great increase. And doubtless where there hath been a plowing up of the heart by a work of grace, there will be a free sowing in every good work. And though we are not to do good works, meerly eying a return, ⟨p. 380⟩or our personal advantage, yet we may have an eye to it, as Moses had in his holy sufferings and services, to the recompence of reward: yea, and take incouragement from the Lords bounty, to be more in duty, more in charity, even unto bounty. We may consider the harvest while we are diligent in sowing, yea, to make us more diligent in sowing.
Having thus opened the several properties of this creature, here called the Unicorn, properly taken, and given out some meditations upon them, it will not be (I conceive) either unuseful or unacceptable to the Reader, if for the conclusion of the whole matter in hand, I show how the holy Scriptures, together with some of the Ancients, make use of this creature, tropically, or in a figure, to resemble and represent,
Having thus opened the several properties of this creature, here called the Vnicorn, properly taken, and given out some meditations upon them, it will not be (I conceive) either unuseful or unacceptable to the Reader, if for the conclusion of the whole matter in hand, I shew how the holy Scriptures, together with some of the Ancients, make use of this creature, tropically, or in a figure, to resemble and represent,