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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
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.
First, It falls very silently; Secondly, very abundantly. No man hears the Dew fall, nor can any number the drops of Dew which fall. Hushai used both these allusions, in that piece of loyal counsel which he gave for the defeating of the counsel of Ahithophel (2 Sam. 11.12.) where he advised Absalom, to gather all Israel from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand which is by the sea for multitude; and so, saith he, we will light upon him as the Dew falleth upon the ground; that is, we will come so silently upon him, and in such numbers (even as the drops of Dew upon the ground) that he shall not be able to avoid us, no more than he can avoid the Dew, which in one and the same instant falls upon the field or Country all over. An Army comes with an intent to fall upon ⟨p. 223⟩the enemy like a storm, yet it may be said to come and fall upon him like a Dew, both because it comes always like a multitude, and because it comes sometimes very silently to surprise him at unawares. Who hath begotten the drops of Dew?
First, It falls very silently; Secondly, very abundantly. No man hears the Dew fall, nor can any number the drops of Dew which fall. Hushai used both these allusions, in that piece of loyal counsel which he gave for the defeating of the counsel of Achitophel (2 Sam. 11.12.) where he advised Absalom, te gather all Israel from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand which is by the sea for multitude; and so, saith he, we will light upon him as the Dew falleth upon the ground; that is, we will come so silently upon him, and in such numbers (even as the drops of Dew upon the ground) that he shall not be able to avoyd us, no more than he can avoyd the Dew, which in one and the same instant falls upon the field or Country all over. An Army comes with an intent to fall upon ⟨p. 223⟩the enemy like a storm, yet it may be said to come and fall upon him like a Dew, both because it comes alwayes like a multitude, and because it comes somtimes very silently to surprize him at unawares. Who hath begotten the drops of Dew?