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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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Secondly, As the sea is the Lords, and he made it; so the sea is the Lords, and he masters it.
(Psal. 89.9.) Thou rulest the raging of the sea; when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Glorify the Lord in this. No earthly potentate can coerce the sea. Xerxes presumed he could tame the He•espont, a little brook comparatively to the Ocean, but it would not obey him; he disciplined it with three hundred strokes for attempting his bridge of boats, but it would not mend; he cast fetters into it, as if it had been his vassal, but it would not be bound. It is God who binds the sea, That knows no Lord but him that made both it and the dry land. It was ⟨p. 110⟩proof enough of Christs Divinity, that rebuking the winds and the sea, there was a great calm. This made the men marvel, saying, what manner of man is this (surely he is more than man) that even the winds and the sea obey him (Matth. 8.26, 27.) When some Courtiers would have flattered our Danish King Canutus into a belief that his power was more than humane, he commanded his chair to be set on the Sea-shore at the time of flood; and sitting down, thus bespake that Element; I charge thee not to enter my land, nor wet these robes: but the sea keeping on its course, he rose up, and spake in the hearing of all about him; Let all the inhabitants of the world know, that vain and weak is the power of Kings; and that none is indeed worthy of that Name, but he that keeps both heaven, and earth, and sea in obedience.
(Psal. 89.9.) Thou rulest the raging of the sea; when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Glorifie the Lord in this. No earthly potentate can coerce the sea. Xerxes presumed he could tame the He•espont, a little brook comparatively to the Ocean, but it would not obey him; he disciplined it with three hundred stroaks for attempting his bridge of boats, but it would not mend; he cast fetters into it, as if it had been his vassal, but it would not be bound. It is God who binds the sea, That knows no Lord but him that made both it and the dry land. It was