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 38 › Verse 4-6

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Observe; God hath made the Earth firm and immovable.

Observe; God hath made the Earth firm and immoveable.

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The stability of the Earth is of God, as much as the being and existence of it (Psal. 104.5.) He laid the foundations of the Earth, that it should not be removed for ever. There have been many Earthquakes or movings of the Earth in several parts of it, but the whole body of the Earth was never removed, so much as one hairs breadth out of its place, since the foundations thereof were laid. Archimedes the great Mathematician, said, If you will give me a place to set my Engine on, I will remove the Earth. It was a great b•ag; but the Lord hath laid it fast enough for mans removing. Himself can make it quake and shake, he can move it when he pleaseth; but he never hath nor will remove it. He hath laid the foundations of the Earth that it shall not be removed, nor can it be at all moved, but at his pleasure; and when it moves at any time, it is to mind the sons of men that they by their sins have moved him to displeasure. There hath been or will be a shaking of the Earth in mercy, for we have it in a promise (Heb. 12.26.) Whose voice then (namely at the giving of the Law) shook the Earth; but now he hath promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the Earth only, but also Heaven. Some understand this promise as fulfilled at the coming of Christ in the flesh, ⟨p. 52⟩at which time indeed there were notable and amazing motions and alterations both in Heaven and Earth. Others expound it of the Day of the ultimate Judgement; not a few of some great providential dispensations of God, which shall shake not the Earth only, but also the Heavens, as taken in a Metaphor for earthly and heavenly things, referring to the Church of God and the Kingdoms of Men. I shall not interpose in this matter about the sense of that Text: but only say, whatever the Apostle meant by Earth or Heaven, and the shaking of it, yet this remains as an unshaken Axiom, that the Fabric of the Earth (properly taken) stands fast: The Lord hath laid the foundations of it, that it should not be removed. David to show the steadfastness of his faith, put that supposition (

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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. 38, verse 4-6, pp. 52–53. EEBO-TCP A35538.

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Joseph Caryl 1602–1673

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London

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M. and S. Simmons

Year

1666

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[16], 1036, [26] p.

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441,742

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Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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EEBO-TCP A35538

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