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

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 8-11

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[ Earlier:466–481 of 4,426

:466p. 105–106

The Saying of God, is Gods Command and Law; And said. To whom? To whom did the Lord speak? He said it to the sea; though a senseless creature, a creature without reason, yea without life, yet the Lord said it, and he said it to the sea, and ⟨p. 106⟩he spake it as angry with the sea. As if he had said, I see what a raging creature thou art, what a froward ungoverned child thou art like to prove; therefore I say, hitherto shalt thou come, and no further. We may take this saying of the Lord, under these two notions.

The Saying of God, is Gods Command and Law; And said. To whom? To whom did the Lord speak? He said it to the sea; though a senseless creature, a creature without reason, yea without life, yet the Lord said it, and he said it to the sea, and ⟨p. 106⟩he spake it as angry with the sea. As if he had said, I see what a raging creature thou art, what a froward ungovern'd child thou art like to prove; therefore I say, hitherto shalt thou come, and no further. We may take this saying of the Lord, under these two notions.

:467p. 106

¹First, As expressing the firmness of what was done; He said, that is, resolved, determined, and concluded, made it a Law, a Law like that of the Medes and Persians, not to be reversed by any power.

1Hebraei [Greek or Hebrew] pro termino ponunt, ut apparet, Ezek. 41.15. ideo recte [Greek or Hebrew] vertitur hoc usque. C••t.Hebraei 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 pro termino ponunt, ut apparet,

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