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 12-15

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Hence Note; We are to acknowledge God as the Commander, yea, as the Former, Maker, and Author of the light.

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This command of God hath respect, not only to his bringing forth the light every morning, or to his bringing forth the morning light every day into the world; but to his giving the light its being the first day of the world. God is the Father not only of spiritual light (Jam. 1.17.) but of natural (Psal. 74.16.) The day is thi•e, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the light, and the Sun. This glory is ascribed to God by his holy Prophet also (Jer. 31.35.) Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the Sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the Moon, and of the Stars, for a light by night. The Lord gives these, as well as command these; and who but God can do either? None can command the creatures unto their daily motion, but God; much less could any command the creatures into their first being, but God. How wise, how great soever men are, or seem to be in their own eyes or sight, they cannot make nor bring forth the least ray of light; much less can they make such a world of light, as God hath made for the world. And surely there is no creature wherein we may see and contemplate more of God than in the light, which he made the first day, and now commandeth to make the morning day by day. Nor is there any thing in the whole compass of Nature, either more comfortable or more admirable than the light. The commonness of it lessens our esteem of it; and because it comes so constantly, and never fails, we are apt to look upon it as no great matter, as no great mercy; whereas indeed the light is not only useful and comfortable, but admirable; and that it deserves these three attributes, I shall briefly show; by giving a touch at each of them.

This command of God hath respect, not onely to his bringing forth the light every morning, or to his bringing forth the morning light every day into the world; but to his giving the light its being the first day of the world. God is the Father not onely of spiritual light (

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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 12-15, pp. 119–120. 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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