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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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Hence Note; The Lord can make wonderful changes in Nature.
What is more fluid than water, more moveable than water; it was of old grown into a divine Proverb (Gen. 49.4.) Unstable ⟨p. 230⟩as water; yet this unstable body can the Lord change into a stone, and make it hard as a rock. Histories are full of strange reports concerning the effects of cold. There have been such Frosts and Freezings, that great waters, mighty rivers, yea some parts of the Sea have been turned into a stone: Houses have been built upon these congealed waters, and Battles have been fought upon them.1 The Army of King Mithridates overcame the enemy in a pitched Battle upon the Ice. And 'tis fresh in memory, how the late King of Sweden a few years since, passed his Army over an arm of the Sea,2 in his wat with Denmark. So fierce and violent is the cold in some parts of Muscovia, that a mans spittle is frozen (say some) in its passage from his lips to the ground; much more may it be so, with cold water sprinkled in the Air.
What is more fluid than water, more moveable than water; it was of old grown into a divine Proverb (Gen. 49.4.) Ʋnstable ⟨p. 230⟩as water; yet this unstable body can the Lord change into a stone, and make it hard as a rock. Histories are full of strange reports concerning the effects of cold. There have been such Frosts and Freezings, that great waters, mighty rivers, yea some parts of the Sea have been turned into a stone: Houses have been built upon these congealed waters, and Battels have been fought upon them.