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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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Fourthly, These words,1 That the wicked might be shaken out of it, are rather to be understood of the wicked, as often apprehended in the morning, for evil done in the night. When the day-spring appears, it discovers wicked men, who being taken, examined, and tried, are by the Sentence of the Judge and Decree of the Magistrate, shaken out of the earth. God the Supreme Judge, seems to search the whole earth by the Candle of the Sun, as he once threatened to search Jerusalem with candles.
Fourthly, These words,1 That the wicked might be shaken out of it, are rather to be understood of the wicked, as often apprehended in the morning, for evil done in the night. When the day-spring appears, it discovers wicked men, who being taken, examined, and tried, are by the Sentence of the Judge and Decree of the Magistrate, shaken out of the earth. God the Supream Judge, seems to search the whole earth by the Candle of the Sun, as he once threatned to search Jerusalem with candles.
- 1Mane judicia exercebantur. Drus. Grot. Sensus horum verborum è, ut improbi die exorto trahantur ad judicia, ac ita terra excutiantur. Pisc.
Hence Note, First; Light is a discoverer.
Light makes all things manifest. As the light of the Word discovers the evil that is in the works of wicked men, and makes that manifest; so the light of the Sun discovers the persons of wicked men, and makes them manifest. We cannot distinguish white from black, nor can we see where men are, nor what they are doing, till light be-friend us. And as the natural light makes things manifest, so much more doth spiritual light, the light of Law and Gospel. By the power of that light wicked men are shaken and driven out of their sins; by that light they