An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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 ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 16-18

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Vers. 17. Have the gates of death been opened (or revealed) unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

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Here is another strange question. Who among the living hath had the gates of death opened to him? O• hath viewed the doors of the shadow of death?

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We read often in Scripture of the gates of death. (Psal. 9.13.¹ Psal. 107.18.) and which is all one, of the gates of the grave, (Isa. 38.10.) but who knows what these gates are? yet we may say something towards the clearing of this question. A gate in strict sense, is that by which we are admitted into any place: and so, the gates of death are,

1Num illius profunda, quae verè dixirim mortis regiam, &c. rimatus es. Bez.

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