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 26-29

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Thus we see how Christ is like the Eagle, in these seven particulars; I shall show seven more, wherein true Christians also are like the Eagle.

Thus we see how Christ is like the Eagle, in these seven particulars; I shall shew seven more, wherein true Christians also are like the Eagle.

:2009p. 491

First, Doth the Eagle fly high? so do they by the wings of faith; They mount up (saith the Prophet, Isa. 40.31.) with wings as the Eagle.

First, Doth the Eagle flie high? so do they by the wings of faith; They mount up (saith the Prophet, Isa. 40.31.) with wings as the Eagle.

:2010p. 491

Secondly, Hath the Eagle a clear sight? doth she see far off? so Saints by faith can see far off (Isa. 33.17.) Their eyes see the King in his beauty, they behold the Land that is very far off. Which Scripture, though it be properly and literally meant of beholding King Hezekiah in his earthly glory, yet it is much more verified of a believers seeing his King, the Lord Jesus Christ in his heavenly glory, and of his beholding Heaven, which may well be called the Land of farness and distances, or (as we translate) The Land very far off. Stephen the Protomartyr, had a clear intellectual spiritual eye, when he said (Acts 7.56.) Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Believers have a clear Eagle-eye here, and they shall have a much clearer eye hereafter, when they shall see Christ as he is (

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