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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 16-18
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.
Secondly, An Intellectual entering.
Secondly, An Intellectual entring.
To be sure, Job had not locally entered the springs of the sea; and it was as sure, that he was not able to make any perfect intellectual entrance thither. When therefore the Lord asked Job this question,1 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? it is as if he had said, It becomes him that makes a judgement upon any matter, to enter into it either locally to view it with the eye, or intellectually to view it with his understanding; but thou, O Job, hast neither of these ways entered into the springs of the sea, and there discovered how the waters flow or rise up out of the earth: how then canst thou make up a judgement about the waters? and if not, what judgment canst thou make up concerning my deep counsels, concerning the secret springs of my judgements?
To be sure, Job had not locally entred the springs of the sea; and it was as sure, that he was not able to make any perfect intellectual entrance thither. When therefore the Lord asked Job this question,1 Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? it is as if he had said, It becomes him that makes a judgement upon any matter, to enter into it either locally to view it with the eye, or intellectually to view it with his understanding; but thou, O Job, hast neither of these ways entred into the springs of the sea, and there d•scovered how the waters flow or rise up out of the earth: how then canst thou make up a judgement about the waters? and if not, what judgment canst thou make up concerning my deep counsels, concerning the secret springs of my judgements?
- 1Opartet judicem nosse ea de qui•us judica us est: tu vo judicas de operibus mo is, cum ea non noris. atabl.