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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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Now, Forasmuch as snow and hail, &c. are at once the Lords Host and his Arms, by which he fights against the wicked, we may take notice of these five following inferences for the help of our meditations about this matter, and to make all that hath been already held forth from these two verses, more profitable to us.
First, God needeth not borrow help from man on earth, when he would be avenged on his enemies.
If he doth but speak the word and declare his will, it is enough; The heavens, the clouds of heaven will b•ing him Armies and Arms without number. He that covers the earth a foot deep with snow, can cover all (as we say) over head and ears with it. He that pours down showers of hail, no bigger than a pease, can send it of a talent weight, as 'tis expressed, (Rev. 16.21.) God cannot want Armies at any time, for his ⟨p. 193⟩day of battle and war, who can make any thing serve him effectively as an Army; and therefore they who being in distress see no more help in man, than David, when he said (Psal. 142.4.) I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me (how well soever I was known to him) refuge failed me, there was no man that cared for my soul; that is, that regarded what became of me: I was left at six and sevens, to sink or swim, to shift for my self as well as I could: they, I say, who are thus distressed, having an interest in God, need not despair nor despond, seeing the Lord can charge or press any creature for our aid and help, yea can help us without the aid of any creature.