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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 7
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Singing is an act of the voice; and as there is a natural singing (that of birds) so an artificial. But how could Stars sing, either artificially, seeing they have no reason, or naturally, seeing they have not so much as a life of sense?
I answer, 'Tis frequent in Scripture to attribute acts of life to lifeless creatures, and acts of reason to those things which have no sense. The Earth is somewhere said to mourn (Isa. 33.9.) The Trees of the Forrest, as also the Hills and the Valleys are said to rejoice and sing for joy (Psal. 65.12, 13.) And in the same sen•e the Stars are here represented singing; and in what sense they may be said to sing, will be further showed afterwards: Nor did they only sing, but they sang 1Together.
I answer, 'Tis frequent in Scripture to attribute acts of life to liveless creatures, and acts of reason to those things which have no sense. The Earth is somewhere said to mourn (Isa. 33.9.) The Trees of the Forrest, as also the Hills and the Valleys are said to rejoyce and sing for joy (Psal. 65.12, 13.) And in the same sen•e the Stars are here represented singing; and in what sense they may be said to sing, will be further shewed afterwards: Nor did they onely sing, but they sang 1Together.
- 1Simul unico concentu, unico consensu.