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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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Fourthly, If God be a Father to all creatures, and to man more than to inferior creatures, and to true Believers more than to other men; then as his fatherhood is extended, so is his fatherly care. God will not be wanting to any as a Father, to whom he is upon any account a Father. He takes care of the fruits of the earth, and of the beast of the field, and of all mankind, he feeds them all, and clothes them all, and protects them all; but they who are a kind of first-fruits of his creatures, and bears the image of his holiness, or his Image in holiness, have a special portion and proportion of his care over them, and love to them, and provision for them. What can he deny to us as a Father, who hath vouchsafed to be our father? Hath the Rain a father?
Fourthly, If God be a Father to all creatures, and to man more than to inferiour creatures, and to true Beleevers more than to other men; then as his fatherhood is extended, so is his fatherly care. God will not be wanting to any as a Father, to whom he is upon any account a Father. He takes care of the fruits of the earth, and of the beast of the field, and of all mankind, he feeds them all, and cloaths them all, and protects them all; but they who are a kind of first-fruits of his creatures, and bears the image of his holiness, or his Image in holiness, have a special portion and proportion of his care over them, and love to them, and provision for them. What can he deny to us as a Father, who hath vouchsafed to be our father? Hath the Rain a father?
Or who hath begotten the drops of Dew?
This latter part of the verse is of the same meaning with the former. The word which we translate hath begotten, 1is appliable to either Parent, man or woman, in a different Conjugation, as Grammarians speak: but in the Conjugation here used it is proper only to the man; and therefore they who translate who hath conceived, wrest this Text, and depart from the Original sense of