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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 24-27
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The Lord Christ showeth mans ignorance, with respect to the way of the wind (John 3.8.) Thou hearest the sound thereof, but thou knowest not whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. Which we are not to understand, as if, when a man perceives the wind to blow, he did not know whence, or out of what part of the compass it comes, or towards what point it goes: We know when it comes from the East; and when it comes from thence, we know it goeth to the West; and so when it comes from the North, and goes to the South: but we know not whence it comes, and whither it goes, as to the way of it; we know not how it comes to pass, or is brought about, That's done by the sole command of ⟨p. 202⟩the Lord, who hath the whole Creation at his beck, and whose word every creature obeys, moving and going where and when he himself gives order. It is the Lord, who by the light (or by what means seems good unto him) scattereth the East-wind (or any other wind) upon the Earth. The next Question concerns the waters.
The Lord Christ sheweth mans ignorance, with respect to the way of the wind (John 3.8.) Thou hearest the sound thereof, but thou knowest not whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. Which we are not to understand, as if, when a man perceives the wind to blow, he did not know whence, or out of what part of the compasse it comes, or towards what point it goes: We know when it comes from the East; and when it comes from thence, we know it goeth to the West; and so when it comes from the North, and goes to the South: but we know not whence it comes, and whither it goes, as to the way of it; we know not how it comes to passe, or is brought about, That's done by the sole command of ⟨p. 202⟩the Lord, who hath the whole Creation at his beck, and whose word every creature obeys, moving and going where and when he himself gives order. It is the Lord, who by the light (or by what means seems good unto him) scattereth the East-wind (or any other wind) upon the Earth. The next Question concerns the waters.