An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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 ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 8-11

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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, ⟨p. 111⟩and no further: yet how do the men of the world over-flow and break their bounds! The prophet makes this application clearly (Jer. 5.22, 23.) Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? will ye not tremble at my presence? which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it: but this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart, they are revolted and gone. As if he had said, The sea doth not revolt against my command, but this people doth; they are more unruly than the sea. All the wicked, at best, are like the troubled sea, that cannot rest (as the Prophet speaks, Isa. 57.20.) How much worser then are they than the sea, when they are at worst?

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 swadling-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, ⟨p. 111⟩and no further: yet how do the men of the world over-flow and break their bounds! The prophet makes this application clearly (Jer. 5.22, 23.) Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? will ye not tremble at my presence? which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it: but this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart, they are revolted and gone. As if he had said, The sea doth not revolt against my command, but this people doth; they are more unruly than the sea. All the wicked, at best, are like the troubled sea, that cannot rest (as the Prophet speaks,

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Joseph Caryl, An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,… (London, 1666), ch. 38, verse 8-11, p. 111. EEBO-TCP A35538.

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Joseph Caryl 1602–1673

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London

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M. and S. Simmons

Year

1666

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[16], 1036, [26] p.

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441,742

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Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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EEBO-TCP A35538

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