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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, 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.
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 wayes 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.
Secondly, The Lord is as the sea in his goodness, sending out so many sweet streams, and feeding all the springs of the earth (Psal. 65.9, 10.) Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water; thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it: thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly, &c.
Secondly, The Lord is as the sea in his goodness, sending out so many sweet streams, and feeding all the springs of the earth (Psal. 65.9, 10.) Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, thou greatly inrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water; thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it: thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly, &c.