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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 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.
Thirdly, The sea water is a salt water, an unpleasant water; and such is the world, though many drink greedily of it, and would even draw it up, as the Scripture speaks of Behemoth, drawing up Jordan. They who drink in worldly things, as if they could drink up the whole world, yet drink but salt and unpleasant water.1 One of the Ancients notes it as a great mercy to man, that God doth thus embitter the world to us, making it brackish and distasteful. And indeed God hath on purpose tempered the things of this world, that they should not be too sweet and luscious for us, or lest we should distemper our selves by them, or surfeit upon them.
Thirdly, The sea water is a salt water, an unpleasant water; and such is the world, though many drink greedily of it, and would even draw it up, as the Scripture speaks of Behemoth, drawing up Jordan. They who drink in worldly things, as if they could drink up the whole world, yet drink but salt and unpleasant water.1 One of the Ancients notes it as a great mercy to man, that God doth thus imbitter the world to us, making it brackish and distastful. And indeed God hath on purpose tempered the things of this world, that they should not be too sweet and luscious for us, or lest we should distemper our selves by them, or surfeit upon them.