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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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The ordering and placing of all things is of God, as well as the making of them; God hath provided a place for every thing, and put every thing in its place. God is the God of Order. And how comely and orderly are all things, while they are kept in, and all persons while they keep in the place which God hath decreed for them, and put them in! The Elements do not ponderate, are not burdensome in their place. The sea troubles us not while it keeps or breaks not out from that decreed place, which God at first brake up for it. There is not the least worm, but hath a decreed place. And as God hath appointed men their time (there is a decreed time for their birth, and for their continuance in life, they die also, and go out of the world in a decreed time) so there is a decreed place for every man, and that two-fold:
The ordering and placing of all things is of God, as well as the making of them; God hath provided a place for every thing, and put every thing in its place. God is the God of Order. And how comely and orde•ly are all things, while they are kept in, and all persons while they keep in the place which God hath decreed for them, and put them in! The Elements do not ponderate, are not burdensome in their place. The sea troubles us not while it keeps or breaks not out from that decreed place, which God at first brake up for it. There is not the least worm, but hath a decreed place. And as God hath appointed men their time (there is a decreed time for their birth, and for their continuance in life, they die also, and go out of the world in a decreed time) so there is a decreed place for every man, and that two-fold:
First, Of his habitation, in what part of the world he shall live (Acts 17 26.)