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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, In that this Text makes so particular a description of the provision which God made to keep the sea in order; as soon as it was born, he bound it up in swaddling-bands, and then brake up a decreed place for it, and there set up bars and doors, that it should come no further. He put the sea under confinement.
First, In that this Text makes so particular a description of the provision which God made to keep the sea in order; as soon as it was born, he bound it up in swadling-bands, and then brake up a decreed place for it, and there set up bars and doors, that it should come no further. He put the sea under confinement.
Hence, Note; The sea left to it self, would mischief all; the sea would return and cover the earth quickly.
As soon as ever it brake forth out of the earth, it covered the earth; and so it would do again, if the Lord should let it alone. David took special notice of this work of God (Psal. 104.9.) Thou hast set a bound that they (the waters spoken of vers. 6, 7, 8.) cannot pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth. Which plainly implieth, that the waters would turn again to cover the earth, and so recover their first liberty, even to overspread the face of the whole earth, did not God restrain and hold them in, as was showed before in the general explication of this verse.
As soon as ever it brake forth out of the earth, it covered the earth; and so it would do again, if the Lord should let it alone. David took special notice of this work of God (Psal. 104.9.) Thou hast set a bound that they (the waters spoken of vers. 6, 7, 8.) cannot pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth. Which plainly implieth, that the waters would turn again to cover the earth, and so recover their first liberty, even to overspread the face of the whole earth, did not God restrain and hold them in, as was shewed before in the general explication of this verse.