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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 12-15
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fi•st, They prided themselves. And
Secondly, Wherewith they oppressed others.
The former is the effect of their strength; the latter is the use which they usually put their strength to.
Strength is often expressed in Scripture by the arm; read Psal. 10.15. Psal. 37.17. Ezek. 30.22. And a high arm notes ⟨p. 141⟩great strength. The Lord is said to do his great things with a stretched out (or a high arm.) Mans arm may here be called an high arm, because the arm of man useth to be lifted up on high to strike hard and home. The higher the arm is lifted up, the heavier it falls, and the deeper impression it makes. To sin with a high hand, is in Scripture language to sin presumptuously and audaciously. They sin with a high hand, who sin against light, or in the face of counsel and reproof. And as they sin mightily, or with all their might, who sin with a high hand; so they act mightily, or with all their might, they lay on load (as we say) who resolving to do any thing, have a high arm to do it wih. When the arms of wicked men are high, they must needs act highly in wickedness. Now when any act evil to the height, with heat and boldness, God will take a course with them; as it followeth in the close of the verse, The high arm, that is, such a high arm Shall be broken.