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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 28-30
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Thus we may conceive the general scope of this Context. Now to the particulars.
Hath the Rain a father?
The question may be resolved both negatively and affirmatively: First, Negatively; the Rain hath no Father, that is, on earth, or among men. There is no creature power that can produce a drop of Rain. Secondly, affirmatively: Hath the Rain a father? Yes, it hath; God is the Father of the Rain. The Rain is not fatherless; there is one who will own the Rain as his child, or issue. The causation of Rain is a great secret in nature, a secret about which though wise and learned men have discoursed much, and given out much light about it, yet they have not reached the utmost, nor attained the full knowledge of it; and the reason of that is, because the Rain hath a Father whose ways and workings as in the first constitution of Nature, so in the daily motions of it, exceed our knowledge.
The question may be resolved both negatively and affirmatively: First, Negatively; the Rain hath no Father, that is, on earth, or among men. There is no creature power that can produce a drop of Rain. Secondly, affi•matively: Hath the Rain a father? Yes, it hath; God is the Father of the Rain. The Rain is not fatherless; there is one who will own the Rain as his child, or issue. The causation of Rain is a great secret in nature, a secret about which though wise and learned men have discoursed much, and given out much light about it, yet they have not reached the utmost, nor attained the full knowledge of it; and the reason of that is, because the Rain hath a Father whose wayes and workings as in the first constitution of Nature, so in the daily motions of it, exceed our knowledg.