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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, 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.
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 inraged often by storms and tempests arising from the lusts and passions of men, even to the swallowing up of all.
Secondly, The sea is very unconstant, it is now ebbing, and anon flowing. It is so with this world, and all things in it; our comforts are sometimes flowing, and sometimes ebbing; our peace comes, and anon it goes; we have some good days and more evil; the days of darkness are many, and the best meet with many of them in this world; the world is full of changes, the fashion of it passeth away.
Secondly, The sea is very unconstant, it is now ebbing, and anon flowing. It is so with this world, and all things in it; our comforts are sometimes flowing, and sometimes ebbing; our peace comes, and anon it goes; we have some good dayes and more evil; the dayes of darkness are many, and the best meet with many of them in this world; the world is full of changes, the fashion of it passeth away.