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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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To the second and third Queries, I answer in a word; It is God who breaks the high arm, and he breaks it in what manner, and by what means soever pleaseth him.
In which we may see a signal work of divine Providence, which doth not suffer the difference of good and evil, of right and wrong, to pass long unobserved. And in this passage possibly, the Lord might intend a refutation of what Job said (Chap. 10.3.) That God shined upon the Counsels of the wicked: For seeing the very light or life of the wicked is with-holden from them, and their high arm broken, doth not God declare and testify that he loveth righteousness, and hateth iniquity? And if the ministration of Divine Justice lye in the dark at any time, doth not the return of the light every day intimate, that a day of the revelation of the righteous Judgment of God is at hand? The high arm shall be broken.
In which we may see a signal work of divine Providence, which doth not suffer the difference of good and evil, of right and wrong, to pass long unobserved. And in this passage possibly, the Lord might intend a refutation of what Job said (Chap. 10.3.) That God shined upon the Counsels of the wicked: For seeing the very light or life of the wicked is with-holden from them, and their high arm broken, doth not God declare and testifie that he loveth righteousness, and hateth iniquity? And if the ministration of Divine Justice lye in the dark at any time, doth not the return of the light every day intimate, that a day of the revelation of the righteous Judgment of God is at hand? The high arm shall be broken.
Hence Note, First; Wicked men may grow high, and have a very high and strong arm.