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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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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.
- 1Beatus Job post interrogationem verberis discutitur interrogation sermonis. Greg.Beatus Job post interrogationem verberis discutitur interrogatione sermonis. Greg.
Thirdly, The Lord came thick and threefold (as we say) upon Job, with these searching Questions, thereby to convince him, that if by his own mighty power he had made, and by his wise providence had ordered the whole course of Nature, and all the parts of it, so exactly; surely then Job might collect and conclude that God in his administrations towards him, a particular single person, must needs carry all things in wisdom and with justice. And, that if God did show forth so much wisdom and faithfulness, in making, and in ordering the world, which was made for man, and for him among others of mankind; then much more was the providence of God rightly and duly administered unto all men, and him. If the Lord took such care of the Earth, when he had showed his power in making of it; if he took such care about the brute beasts and other creatures of the Earth,