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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.
First, The Sea hath in it a representation of God himself in his divine perfections.
Secondly, Of the World in its various motions.
Thirdly, Of the heart of man in its vilest corruptions.
The Sea carrieth in it, First, A representation of God himself; which may be taken in four things.
First, In the hiddenness and unsearchableness of his wisdom (Psal. 36.6.) Thy judgements are a great deep, or a sea; (Rom. 11.33.) O the depth of the wisdom and counsel of God! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past finding out! None can fathom this Sea, there is not line enough in the understanding of Men and Angels to reach the bottom of God; he is a sea without banks or bottom.