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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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But before I pass to those words in the latter part of the verse, I shall gather up some observations from this former part of it; Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the Earth? &c.
Hence Note, First; The time of man upon Earth, compared with the Eternity of God, is nothing.
Where wast thou? David (Psal. 39.4.) prayed that God would teach him how frail he was, as to the duration of his life; and he adds in the next verse, Mine age is nothing before thee. The age of man is nothing before God, if we consider it as to its beginning, or if we consider it as to its ending. When began the age of the most aged man? Are not all men of yesterday? God had an eternity of Being, before man was upon the face of the earth. And what's the age of man as to its continuance? As it began but yesterday, that is, a very little while ago, or but the day past; so it may end to morrow, that is within a few days to come, yea possibly before the next day or the morrow cometh. Boast not of to morrow (Prov. 27.1.) both because ⟨p. 49⟩thou knowest not what a day may bring forth, nor whether, as to thee, a to morrow shall be brought forth. Death sweeps men suddenly from the face of the earth; only the Lord always is, and is always the same: All things change, but God is not changed: He is himself, and his years fails not: Then what's mans age compared to God?
Where wast thou? David (Psal. 39.4.) prayed that God would teach him how frail he was, as to the duration of his life; and he adds in the next verse, Mine age is nothing before thee. The age of man is nothing before God, if we consider it as to its beginning, or if we consider it as to its ending. When began the age of the most aged man? Are not all men of yesterday? God had an eternity of Being, before man was upon the face of the earth. And what's the age of man as to its continuance? As it began but yesterday, that is, a very little while ago, or but the day past; so it may end to morrow, that is within a few dayes to come, yea possibly before the next day or the morrow cometh. Boast not of to morrow (