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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 12-15
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First, As if the Lord had said,1 Was there no morning before thy days? Or, Was there not a morning, before thou hadst a morning in the world? Did the birth of the morning wait till thou wast born? Did it not look forth, no• appear, till thou didst appear? Surely, there were mornings, hundreds of years before thou hadst a morning in the world. The morning did not stay for thee, nor for thy day.
First, As if the Lord had said,1 Was there no morning before thy days? Or, Was there not a morning, befo•e thou hadst a morning in the world? Did the birth of the morning wait till thou wast born? Did it not look forth, no• appear, till thou didst appear? Surely, there were mornings, hundreds of years before thou hadst a morning in the world. The morning did not stay for thee, nor for thy day.
- 1Cum dixit, A diebus tuis, Ostendit id antequam ille nasceretur factum esse, & perpetuum illum naturae ordinem in manu dei esse non hominum. Merc.
Secondly, Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? That is, since thou camest into the world? hast thou had the honour, privilege, and power to awaken and call up the morning, as thou dost thy household servants? Know, O Job, that, as there was a morning before thou wast born, or hadst a day in the world; so since thy day, thou hast neither made the morning, nor raised up the morning light; that power is now in my hand, as it was before thou wast in being; thou art but of yesterday, of a few days: there was a morning before thy days; and since thy days many have continued and come forth daily: yet not at thy command, but at mine. As I brought forth the light in the first day of the Creation, so the fourth day I created the Sun, into which I gathered the light, and at whose rising the morning shows it self.