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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 38 › Verse 4-6
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The scope which God seems to have in pressing Job with these Demands or Questions, may be threefold.
First, That by arguments from the less to the greater, he might show Job, that he was not able to comprehend the reason of his mysterious providential workings towards the children of men, seeing he could not give a reason of his sensible and natural works.
First, That by arguments from the less to the greater, he might shew Job, that he was not able to comprehend the reason of his mysterious providential workings towards the children of men, seeing he could not give a reason of his sensible and natural works.
Secondly, That Job being put to confess his ignorance about worldly or natural things, he might be brought to have low thoughts of himself, and (as he did indeed at last in Chapter 42.) to abhor himself, repenting in dust and ashes: Therefore,1 as one of the Ancients saith upon this place; After God had a great while, as it were, debated with him, and questioned him by his rod, he now debated with him by word, putting Questions to him.
Secondly, That Job being put to confess his ignorance about worldly or natural things, he might be brought to have low thoughts of himself, and (as he did indeed at last in Chapter 42.) to abhor himself, repenting in dust and ashes: Therefore,1 as one of the Ancien•s saith upon this place; After God had a great while, as it were, debated with him, and questioned him by his rod, he now debated with him by word, putting Questions to him.