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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, Then tremble at the power of God, who can let the sea loose upon us in a moment. We tremble at the sea if it break loose; then tremble at the power of God, who can let loose the sea. It is he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: the Lord is his Name. (Amos 9.6.)
Fourthly, when the sea breaks bounds in any degree, either when we see a storm at sea, or a deluge at land, let us go only to the Lord, who only can still the raging of the sea, and put swaddling-bands about it, even as if it were a child. God alone is to be invocated, when the winds are tempestuous, and threaten either a deluge at land, or a wrack at sea. Heathens invoked Neptune and Aeolus. Popish votaries call upon St. Nicholas and St. Christopher. Let us learn of the Disciples, who fearing to be swallowed up of a tempest, went to Christ, and said, Master, save us, we perish (Matth. 8.27.) The poor Mariners in Jonah called every one upon his God (Jonah 1.5.) but none of them called upon the true God. It is Jehovah the Lord, the true God only, that raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves of the sea; and it is he that maketh the storm a calm (Psal. 107.24, 25, 29.)
Fourthly, when the sea breaks bounds in any degree, either when we see a storm at sea, or a deluge at land, let us go only to the Lord, who onely can still the raging of the sea, and put swadling-bands about it, even as if it were a child. God alone is to be invocated, when the winds are tempestuous, and threaten either a deluge at land, or a wrack at sea. Heathens invoked Neptune and Aeolus. Popish votaries call upon St. Nicholas and St. Christopher. Let us learn of the Disciples, who fearing to be swallowed up of a tempest, went to Christ, and said, Master, save us, we perish (Matth. 8.27.) The poor Mariners in Jonah called every one upon his God (Jorah 1.5.) but none of them called upon the true God. It is Jehovah the Lord, the true God onely, that raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves of the sea; and it is he that maketh the storm a calm (