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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 13-18
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Observe, God hath a care to provide every way for the necessity of the creature, even of the unreasonable creatures, whether those that move upon the earth, or those that fly in the air.
We read before, how the Lord feeds the Lions, how he feeds the Ravens, how he feeds the wild Asses, how he provides food for Unicorns, and here he would have us take notice, how he provides clothing for the birds; feathers, are to the birds their clothing; they are to all birds good and warm clothing, and to some beautiful and goodly clothing. While Christ (Mat. 6.26.28.) spake of clothing the Lilies, and of feeding the Fowls of the Air, he would from thence infer an argument of the Fatherly care of God over his people; Now in that God gives a clothing of feathers to the Fowls, and doth not leave them naked, it holds forth these three things.
We read before, how the Lord feeds the Lions, how he feeds the Ravens, how he feeds the wild Asses, how he provides food for Unicorns, and here he would have us take notice, how he provides clothing for the birds; feathers, are to the birds their clothing; they are to all birds good and warm clothing, and to some beautiful and goodly clothing. While Christ (Mat. 6.26.28.) spake of clothing the Lillies, and of feeding the Fowls of the Air, he would from thence infer an argument of the Fatherly care of God over his people; Now in that God gives a clothing of feathers to the Fowls, and doth not leave them naked, it holds forth these three things.
First, It is an evidence or proof of the goodness and munificence of God, in providing sufficiently for the comfortable subsistence of all his creatures, and for the ornament of some of them.