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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 Lord gives the sea line; He makes it a prisoner, but not a close prisoner; He gives it a great scope, large room to role and tumble its waves in; Hitherto thou shalt come, that is, hitherto thou mayest come. It is not a Command that the sea should always come so far, but it is a dispensation or a permission, that thus far the sea may come, but no further. As if the Lord had said, I have drawn a line, and I have set a mark, I have given thee a bound, so far to go, hitherto shalt thou come, But no further.
The Lord gives the sea line; He makes it a prisoner, but not a close prisoner; He gives it a great scope, large room to role and tumble its waves in; Hitherto thou shalt come, that is, hitherto thou maist come. It is not a Command that the sea should alwayes come so far, but it is a dispensation or a permission, that thus far the sea may come, but no further. As if the Lord had said, I have drawn a line, and I have set a mark, I have given thee a bound, so far to go, hitherto shalt thou come, But no further.
First, Of the waves and the waters in the midst of the sea. When waves rise in the main ocean, how high they may rise and toss the sailing ship, we cannot tell; but God knows.