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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There is a two-fold rendering of that word translated Shut up; ⟨p. 95⟩We take it from a root which signifies to hedge in, or compass about, as also to protect; because those things which are compassed about with strong hedges, are under protection, and safe from danger. Water being a fluid body, spreads it self over all, the water cannot contain it self in it• own bounds (fluids cannot) but it must be bound, it must be shut in, or shut up. The Lord shut up the Sea, as the waters of a great River are shut up by flood-gates; or as the waters upon which a Mill is built (some carry the allusion to that) are pent for the service of it, and are caused by art to run gradually or by inches, as the Master of that useful engine gives direction. Thus the Lord shut up the Sea.
There is a two-fold rendring of that word translated Shut up; ⟨p. 95⟩We take it from a root which signifies to hedge in, or compass about, as also to protect; because those things which are compassed about with strong hedges, are under protection, and safe from danger. Water being a fluid body, spreads it self over all, the water cannot contain it self in it• own bounds (fluids cannot) but it must be bound, it must be shut in, or shut up. The Lord shut up the Sea, as the waters of a great River are shut up by flood-gates; or as the waters upon which a Mill is built (some carry the allusion to that) are pent for the service of it, and are caused by art to run gradually or by inches, as the Master of that useful engine gives direction. Thus the Lord shut up the Sea.
The Sea is a great Convention or Assembly of Waters, as Moses spake (Gen. 1.10.) The gathering together of waters, the Lord called Sea: The Sea is a confluence, or meeting of waters. There may be a great water, yet that not the Sea; the confluence of all or many waters together, that is Sea. The waters being thus gathered or assembled by the Lords Summons or Command, he hedged them in, or shut them up.