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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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Thirdly, As all the rivers come from the sea, and return to it, so all good flows out and springs from God, and all the glory of his goodness should return, or be returned to him in praises and thanksgivings.
Fourthly, The sea is such a vast body, that though it sends forth water to feed the earth every where, and though all the rivers flow back into the sea, yet the sea is not at all abated by the water that it sends forth, nor increased by all the water that returns to it. So how much soever God gives out to the creature (he gives out all) yet he is no more emptied by it than the sea; and whatsoever returns the creature makes to him, they no more increase nor add to him, than the sea is increased by the rivers falling into it: there is no sensible appearance of the heightening of the waters of the sea, by the greatest and vastest rivers that disburden themselves into it.
Secondly, As the sea is an Emblem of the Living God, in whom we live, so of the world wherein we live.
First, The sea is a very unquiet part of the world. What storms, what tempests are there upon the sea? what rage and fury in the waves of it? such an unquiet thing is this world, hurrying up and down, and enraged often by storms and tempests arising from the lusts and passions of men, even to the swallowing up of all.