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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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The Lord (who as Solomon saith, Eccl. 5.8) is higher than the highest (on earth) can quickly bring down the highest, and break or crush the strong arm, as one would break a reed, or crush a moth. Thus the Lord bespake Edom by his Prophet (Jer. 49.16.) O thou that dwellest in the clifts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill; though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the Eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. And thus the Lord spake by another Prophet concerning the Amorite, (Amos 2.9.) His height was like the height of the Cedars, and he was strong as the Oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath; that is, I utterly destroyed him. Yea, the very being of the wicked high and strong, is an argument that they shall be brought low, destroyed, and broken to pieces. When Babylons arm shall be in its highest height, When she shall say in her heart, I sit as a Queen (that is, on high) and am no Widow, and shall see no sorrow. When Babylon is thus prophesying all good of her self, and promising all good to her self, then shall her plague come in one day, death and famine, and mourning, and she shall be utterly burnt with fire; for strong is the Lord, who judgeth her (Rev. 18.7, 8.) He will break her high arm, and break it when she thinks it highest, and her self safest. David whose arm God raised on high, affirmed all this of wicked high ones in general, or of all those, who should be found high in wickedness (Psal. 92.7, 8.) When the wicked spring as grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. As if he had said, that's the meaning of their prosperity, you may spell that our of it, or make that interpretation of it, they shall be destroyed for ever. As the Lord remembers his people in their low estate, because his mercy endureth for ever (Psal. 136.23.) so he will take vengeance on the wicked ⟨p. 144⟩in their high estate, because his justice endureth for ever.