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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 8-11
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The Lord having questioned Job about the Fabric of the Earth, and showed the triumph and acclamations of Angels at it, in the former Context: He next leads him to the waters, or carrieth him to the Sea, there to consider his Works of wonder. As Moses in the beginning of Genesis having summarily and in general, spoken of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, descendeth to particulars; so here we have the Lord passing from one part of the Creation to another; from the Creation of the Earth, to that other great part of the Creation, the Waters, or the Sea. Vers. 8. Who shut up the Sea with doors? &c.
THe Lord having questioned Job about the Fabrick of the Earth, and shewed the triumph and acclamations of Angels at it, in the former Context: He next leads him to the waters, or carrieth him to the Sea, there to consider his Works of wonder. As Moses in the beginning of Genesis having summarily and in general, spoken of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, descendeth to particulars; so here we have the Lord passing from one part of the Creation to another; from the Creation of the Earth, to that other great part of the Creation, the Waters, or the Sea. Vers. 8. Who shut up the Sea with doors? &c.
In these words, we have
First, The Creation of the Sea.