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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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Secondly, The water riseth above the earth, as being more pure than that.
Thirdly, The air is above the water, as being much more pure than the water.
Fourthly, The fire gets above all, as being the thinnest and purest of all the elements; and therefore the water issuing out of the earth, would have continually covered the face of the earth, if the Lord by his power had not ordered it off, and shut it up with doors, when come off, according to our reading the words in this verse, and according to the general reading of the tenth verse; where the whole earth being covered with water, the Lord brake up for it his decreed place, and there kept it fast. Thus David (Psal. 104.7, 8.) speaking of the waters above the mountains and over-flowing all; presently adds, At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; they go up by the mountains, they go down by the valleys, unto the place which thou hast founded for them. There the Lord by David, as here by himself, sets forth his mighty power, in the disposal of the waters to a certain place.
Fourthly, The fire gets above all, as being the thinnest and purest of all the elements; and therefore the water issuing out of the earth, would have continually covered the face of the earth, if the Lord by his power had not ordered it off, and shut it up with doors, when come off, according to our reading the words in this verse, and according to the general reading of the tenth verse; where the whole earth being covered with water, the Lord brake up for it his decreed place, and there kept it fast. Thus David (Psal. 104.7, 8.) speaking of the waters above the mountains and over-flowing all; presently adds, At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; they go up by the mountains, they go down by the vallies, unto the place which thou hast founded for them. There the Lord by David, as here by himself, sets forth his mighty power, in the disposal of the waters to a certain place.