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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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Thirdly, Note; To God alone that power belongs, which keeps the sea within compass.
It is not the sands, nor the banks, nor the rocks, that can do it. The water is a very barbarous and head-strong element, none can put a bridle into the lips of it, but God himself. A late Historian, speaking of the siege of Rochelle, saith there was a stupendous ⟨p. 109⟩dike made, which might be called a bridle to the sea: but God alone can make a bridle for the sea; his word in the Text, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, is the bridle. Some dispute whether it be not a continued Miracle, that the sea is kept within its compass. We say miracles are discontinued; and I conceive 'tis beside the nature of a miracle, to be continual; yet, without dispute, 'tis a continued marvel or wonder, that the sea is thus kept in; if the Lord should let it loose, if he should remove the bar and unlock the door of that prohibition here given it, but one hour, no natural doors nor bars could hinder it from returning to cover the face of the earth. Take a few inferences from the whole.
It is not the sands, nor the banks, nor the rocks, that can do it. The water is a very barbarous and head-strong element, none can put a bridle into the lips of it, but God himself. A late Historian, speaking of the siege of Rochel, saith there was a stupendious ⟨p. 109⟩dike made, which might be called a bridle to the sea: but God alone can make a bridle for the sea; his word in the Text, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, is the bridle. Some dispute whether it be not a continued Miracle, that the sea is kept within its compass. We say miracles are discontinued; and I conceive 'tis beside the nature of a miracle, to be continual; yet, without dispute, 'tis a continued marvel or wonder, that the sea is thus kept in; if the Lord should let it loose, if he should remove the bar and unlock the door of that prohibition here given it, but one hour, no natural doors nor bars could hinder it from returning to cover the face of the earth. Take a few inferences from the whole.