A35538:915
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 24-27
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This consideration may strengthen our dependence on God, though we are brought into a Wilderness condition, where there is no man to pity us, or give us a morsel of bread. Surely the Lord that feeds the wild beasts where there is no man, can and will provide for his own people, when the hearts of all men are shut up against them; he can make the fowls of the air and the beasts of the earth to bring them food, as the ravens did to Elijah.
This consideration may strengthen our dependance on God, though we are brought into a Wilderness condition, where there is no man to pity us, or give us a morsel of bread. Surely the Lord that feeds the wild beasts where there is no man, can and will provide for his own people, when the hearts of all men are shut up against them; he can make the fowls of the air and the beasts of the earth to bring them food, as the ravens did to Elijah.
Further, This is an instance of the inexhaustible treasure of the Lords goodness: For if he giveth rain in the wilderness for the beasts of the earth, may we not thence infer, surely the ⟨p. 210⟩Lord will take care even of those who are unworthy. What have the beasts deserved at the hand of God, that he should provide for them? Yea, the Lord doth not only give food to those that are of no desert, as the beasts, but to those that are of ill desert, he gives rain to those who are but beasts in the shape of men, men of beastly spirits. The Lord feeds the Lions and the Bears, the Tigers and the Swine of the World, that is, men like them; he causeth his rain to fall upon the just and unjust (Matth. 5.45.1) He will rather give good to the bad, for the goods sake, than be wanting to the good, because of the wickedness of the bad; and therefore the rain comes not only upon the just, but upon the unjust too.
Further, This is an instance of the inexhaustible treasure of the Lords goodness: For if he giveth rain in the wilderness for the beasts of the earth, may we not thence infer, surely the