An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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 ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: 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, 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.

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Thirdly, The Sea is an Emblem of the heart of man, especially of a wicked mans heart. Man is a little world, and the heart of man hath a sea of worldly vanities in it (Isaiah 57.20.) The wicked are like the troubled sea; and the heart of a wicked man is the most troubled and troublesome part in him. The heart unchanged, is like the sea:

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