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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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First, Bounds and limits assigned by God to that vast and unruly Element, the Water, that the Earth might be habitable and useful both for man and beast. And,
Secondly, We have the Lord restraining all power or liberty (which naturally it would have had and taken) to violate or break those bounds: For had not God given the Waters of the Sea such a special command (though bounds had been assigned them) they would quickly have broken their bounds.
These two orders of God differ much, though not in the time when they were given out, yet in the nature of the thing; and ⟨p. 94⟩both suppose the Sea in being, when these orders were given out; For when it is said (vers. 8.) It brake forth, as if it issued out of the womb; this implieth its birth and nativity: and when God saith, He shut it up with doors, this supposeth, that it not only had a being, but that it was violent and furious, and would have over-flowed all, and regained as large a Territory as it possessed at first, when it issued out of the womb of the Earth, even the face of the whole Earth, if the Lord had not bridled and restrained it.
These two orders of God differ much, though not in the time when they were given out, yet in the nature of the thing; and ⟨p. 94⟩both suppose the Sea in being, when these orders were given out; For when it is said (vers. 8.) It brake forth, as if it issued out of the womb; this implieth its birth and nativity: and when God saith, He shut it up with doors, this supposeth, that it not onely had a being, but that it was violent and furious, and would have over-flowed all, and regained as large a Territory as it possessed at first, when it issued out of the womb of the Earth, even the face of the whole Earth, if the Lord had not bridled and restrained it.