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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 22-23
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Thirdly, Note; God can make any creature hurtful and afflictive to us.
Snow is of great use, and serves much to advance the fruitfulness of the earth, and is joined with rain in that effect, (Isa. 55.10.) As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, &c. (by the concurrent blessing of God) So, &c. Snow as well as rain is a blessing to the earth, not an affliction; yea snow is used by some as a delicacy to cool their drink in hot Countries and seasons; which use of it was first found out by that monster of men Nero, saith Pliny, who thus declaims and protests against his intemperance;1 O the prodigies of luxury! some drink snow, others ice, and so turn the punishments of the mountains (so he calls snow and ice as to present sense) into their own pleasure, or to serve their voluptuousness. Now though the snow, according to Gods appointment be profitable to the earth, and is used by some men to serve their pleasures and please their sensual appetite, yet God can make a scourge of it, if he pleaseth, and destroy both our profits and pleasures by it. He can afflict us, not only with strong and stormy winds, not only with dreadful thunder and lightning, but with snow, which is soft as wool, and hail-stones, which usually children sport and play with. He hath destroyed sinners not only by lions and bears, and such like ravenous beasts, but with frogs and mice, with lice and locusts, as was touched before. There are two things which show the mighty power of God in the Creature.
Snow is of great use, and serves much to advance the fruttfulness of the earth, and is joyned with rain in that effect, (Isa. 55.10.) As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, &c. (by the concurrent blessing of God) So, &c. Snow as well as rain is a blessing to the earth, not an affliction; yea snow is used by some as a delicacy to cool their drink in hot Countries and seasons; which use of it was first found out by that monster of men Nero, saith Pliny, who thus declaims and potests against his intemperance;