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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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From the whole verse and the observations given upon it, take these Scripture inferences.
First, The Scripture makes this inference from it; God is one, ⟨p. 54⟩and there is none like to him (Isa. 40.26. Isa. 46.8.) To whom will ye liken me? to whom will you compare me? I am he that stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth. there's none like to him in Wisdom, none in Power, who laid the foundation of the Earth. There was never such a visible piece of work done in the World, as the making of the World; therefore the•e is none such as the Maker of the World. The hypocrite is brought in dreaming that God was altogether such as himself (Psal. 50.21.) And 'tis, as it hath been, the common guise of Idolaters, to think that God is no better than their Idol. But what the Lord by his Prophet (Jer. 10.11, 12) taught the captive Jews to say to their great Lords the Babylonians, the same hath he taught us to say to all Hypocrites and Idolaters: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens: Then presently followeth (as in Job) He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. As if it had been said, Will ye imagine that the Idols which you have made, are like him, who made you and all things? And 'tis considerable, that whereas the whole Prophecy of Jeremiah is written in the Hebrew Tongue, this eleventh verse, which holds out at once a testimony and a threatening against those Idolaters, is written in the Chaldean Language, with which the Jews by their long Captivity in Babylon were well acquainted; that so the Babylonians might hear of it, and know that the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, was altogether unlike their gods, who did never so much as arrogate to themselves any hand in, much less, the sole power of making heaven and earth.