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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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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 (Psal. 107.24, 25, 29.)
Fifthly, If the sea, so vast and violent a creature receive the bridle from God, and is bound up by him, even as an infant in swaddling-bands; how much more should man receive the bridle from him! The Lord saith to the sons of men, hitherto shall ye come, and no further; hitherto your works and actions shall go,