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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, For turbulency or troublesomness; what is more unquiet than the heart of man? no such natural storms upon the sea; no such civil storms either at sea or land, as there are carnal storms in the heart of man; what a stir, what broils, doth the heart of man make many times!
Secondly, The heart of man is like the sea, as it is salt, brackish and bitter, through the hastiness and rashness of our spirits. The Prophet Habakkuk calls the Chaldeans a bitter and hasty Nation (chap. 1.6.) Hasty persons are bitter persons, perverseness, peevishness and passions lodge in them.
Thirdly, The heart of man hath waves in it, full of pride like the sea; what sea hath such proud waves as the heart of man hath! O how do many even deify themselves, think and speak of themselves as if they were more than man! It is said of the King of Tirus (Ezekiel 28.2.) that he set his heart as the heart ⟨p. 101⟩of God; how was that? not that his heart was fashioned like the heart of God, but he was lifted up in a self-sufficiency, as if he (like God) needed no helper; and as he thought, he •ad no need of help from any, so he had no fear of hurt from any. How often do such proud waves appear upon the sea of mans heart? and who is there among the sons of men, but finds these proud waves of his heart lifting him up beyond his sphere and condition? And who but God, can shut up this sea with doors, when its sinfulness breaks forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? But leaving these metaphorical seas,1 I return to consider what the Lord said further, concerning the Sea Natural.