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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 19-21
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Secondly, From the scope of these two verses,
Observe; It is God who disposeth and ordereth light and darkness.
The question was put to Job, whether he had disposed of them; but he could not assume to himself, that he had taken or laid the light to the bound thereof, or knew the paths to the house thereof. Light and darkness are at the dispose, and under the command of God alone. And as the work or power of God is wonderful in the dispose of natural light and darkness, so 'tis much more wonness; in the dispose of civil, spiritual, and eternal light and darkderful these the Lord taketh to their bound, and knoweth the paths to their house. I form light and create darkness (saith the Lord, Isa. 45.7.) What light and darkness doth the Lord there speak of? Surely of civil light and darkness, as the next words import, I make peace and create evil; I make and create them, I also direct and appoint them whither to go, whether to a Nation or to a man only, whether to this or that man or Nation. Darkness is of me as truly as light.