An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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 ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 19-21

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Thirdly, Use the strength of horses (I say also, your own strength) for God, and not against him. We should take heed of employing the strength which God hath given a beast, against God; much more should we take heed of using our own strength against him. When men employ the strength of a beast, or their own, against God, they employ the gift against the giver, and so fight against God with his own weapons.

Thirdly, Ʋse the strength of horses (I say also, your own strength) for God, and not against him. We should take heed of imploying the strength which God hath given a beast, against God; much more should we take heed of using our own strength against him. When men imploy the strength of a beast, or their own, against God, they imploy the gift against the giver, and so fight against God with his own weapons.

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Fourthly, If the strength of horses be of God, or be his gift, Then trust not in the strength of horses: Use the strength of horses, but do not trust the strength of horses. If you trust that strength which God hath given to horses, you make them your God. How often doth God forbid trusting in the strength of horses, as knowing that we are apt to trust in any thing that is strong, though but a beast (Psal. 33.17.) A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. As if God had said, you think a horse can save you, but know, he is a vain thing. And when the Psalmist saith, A horse is a vain thing, he doth not mean it of a weak horse, but of (such a horse as is here described) a horse of the grea•est strength imaginable, such a horse is a vain thing to save a man, neither can he deliver any by his strength; and therefore the Lord, when he promised great deliverances to his people (lest they should expect it by the strength of horses) faith (Hos. 1.7.) I will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horse-men: As if he had told them, do not look after creature strength to be saved by; a horse will be a vain thing to save you,

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Joseph Caryl, An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,… (London, 1666), ch. 39, verse 19-21, p. 428. EEBO-TCP A35538.

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Author

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673

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London

Printer

M. and S. Simmons

Year

1666

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[16], 1036, [26] p.

Words

441,742

Catalogue

Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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EEBO-TCP A35538

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4,426

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