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

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

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Secondly, He bounds the sea of the devils rage. The devil is a sea in bonds. We read of a special thousand years, wherein it is prophesied that Satan shall be bound (Rev. 20.2.) yet indeed he is always bound, else no man could live a quiet hour for him, nor have any rest from his furious temptations and vexations, but his professed slaves and votaries.

Secondly, He bounds the sea of the devils rage. The devil is a sea in bonds. We read of a special thousand years, wherein it is prophesied that Satan shall be bound (Rev. 20.2.) yet indeed he is alwayes bound, else no man could live a quiet hour for him, nor have any rest from his furious temptations and vexations, but his professed slaves and votaries.

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Thirdly, There is a sea of Affliction which we meet with in this world; the Lord bounds that also, and saith, hitherto it shall come and no further (1 Cor. 10.13) There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man. But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

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Fourthly, The Lord sets a bound to the sea of profaneness and ungodliness in the world; that's a sea that would over-flow all; and that is a sea, f•r whose over-flowing, we have cause to pour out floods of tears. Hence that prayer of David (Psal. 7.9.) O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end! Did not the Lod put an end to the profaneness and ungodliness of men, they would be endless in profaneness and ungodliness. The unjust knoweth no shame (

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