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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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Secondly, Light to serve God, or to do the work of God by.
Thirdly, How comfortable is the light! 'Tis so comfortable, that light and comfort are often put for the same thing. God is the Lord (aith David, Psal. 118.27.) which hath showed us light; that is, the light of counsel what to do, and the light of comfort in what we do, or after all our sufferings. Light is not only a candle held to us, to do our work by, but it comforts and cheereth us in our work (Eccl. 11.7.) Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun. Hence that of David (Psal. 65.8.) Thou makest the out-goings of the evening and morning to rejoice; that is, thou makest men to rejoice, they are glad, they rejoice in, or at the out-goings of the morning. Man takes comfort at the first appearance of the light; light refresheth him at its out-goings in the morning. And at the evening men rejoice too, for then they go to their rest, being wearied with the labour of the day.1 Or we may thus expound that Psalm, Thou makest the out-goings of the morning and the evening to rejoice; That is, thou makest men who live at the out-goings of the morning, and at the out-goings of the evening to rejoice. As if it had been said, thou makest the Eastern people and the Western people, all people from East to West rejoice. And that which makes all people to rejoice, naturally, is the rising of light with them in the East, and the coming of light towards them in the West.
Thirdly, How comfortable is the light! 'Tis so comfortable, that light and comfort are often put for the same thing. God is the Lord (aith David, Psal. 118.27.) which hath shewed us light; that is, the light of counsel what to do, and the light of comfort in what we do, or after all our sufferings. Light is not only a candle held to us, to do our work by, but it comforts and cheareth us in our work (