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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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Secondly, Consider, Where the strength and stress of the question lies, and what naturally floweth from it, namely, that Thunder and Lightning go not their own way, but in the way that God appoints them. The Water moves Gods way, and so doth the Wind; the Light moves Gods way, and so doth the Lightning and the Thunder, or the Lightning of the Thunder. The Lord hath all these at mo•e command, than we have the tamest or most flow paced animals. Thunder and Lightning go to the mark God sets them. As a piece of Ordnance, or great Gun, being levelled and fired carrieth the Bullet; so those Cannons being discharged from the Clouds, carry their Bolts to a hairs breadth, and miss not.
Secondly, Consider, Where the strength and stress of the question lyes, and what naturally floweth from it, namely, that Thunder and Lightning go not their own way, but in the way that God appoynts them. The Water moves Gods way, and so doth the Wind; the Light moves Gods way, and so doth the Ligh•ning and the Thunder, or the Ligh•ning of the Thunder. The Lord hath all these at mo•e command, than we have the tamest or most flow paced animals. Thunder and Lightning go to the mark God sets them. As a piece of Ordnance, or great Gun, being levelled and fired carryeth the Bullet; so those Cannons being discharged from the Clouds, carry their Bolts to a hairs breadth, and miss not.
In the two next verses the Lord shows the reason, why he thus divides a water-course for the over-flowing of waters, and a way for the Lightning of Thunder; it is, 1Vers. 26. To cause it to rain on the earth where no man is, on the Wilderness where there is no man.
In the two next verses the Lord shewes the reason, why he thus divides a water-course for the over-flowing of waters, and a way for the Lightning of Thunder; it is,